a roast turkey with bacon, crab legs, claws, and tentacles
an alternative, entertaining, and slightly twisted take on a holiday favorite | image from here

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Apropos of Nothing

Eric Griggs
3 min readNov 28, 2019

bits and pieces for your Thanksgiving enjoyment . . .

Oh Thanksgiving Day,
a feast most equivocal.
How like us you are.

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” — Johnny Carson

Vintage Thanksgiving greeting: a boy with a hatchet in short pants, a read sweater & cap, lovingly eyes unsuspecting turkey
an old Thanksgiving greeting card | public domain

“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on…

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Eric Griggs
Eric Griggs

Written by Eric Griggs

Juxtaposeur, technical analyst, process engineer, poet wordsmith, INTJ, Anansi, MBTI certified practitioner & team-builder, certifiable fabulist & Uppity Queer™

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