Une impression de tranquillité /Thanksgiving
English version below the picture
Il y a quelques temps je lisais mon journal près de la cheminée et près d’une vieille lampe à pétrole . Seulement quelques bûches et quelques gouttes de pétrole étaient nécessaires pour mon confort. Pas besoin de courant électrique pour le chauffage et l’ éclairage . Avec, peut-être, en prime, une sorte de délectation esthétique !! Tranquillité!
Mais soudainement une idée imprévue vint à mon esprit.
Comment les fondateurs pèlerins en Amérique s’éclairaient-ils la nuit au temps du premier Thanksgiving (action de grâce ) en 1621. Utilisaient-ils des lampes à huile, des torches, des bougies ou le feu de bois ?
Je souhaite un bon Thanksgiving, maintenant très proche , à mes amis américains .(C’est déjà fait pour mes amis canadiens)
photo Janine Fauquet
A while ago I was reading my newspaper near the fireplace and near a oil lamp . Only a few logs and a few drops of oil were needed for my comfort . No need of electrical power for heating and lighting. And, perhaps , with the added bonus of an aesthetic delight!!!! Quietness!
But, all of a sudden an idea came in my mind :
How did the Pilgrim Founders light up at night at the time of the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Did they use oil lamps, torches, candles, or wood fires? I wish a happy up coming THANKSGIVING to my American friends (already done for my Canadian friends )
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Grazie Sherazade. Quale festa celebriamo in Italia?
In Italia non c’è una festa che corrisponda al Tks Giving Day
A meno che non lo si voglia collegare con il Ferragosto il 15 agosto nel quale originariamente il mondo contadino festeggia (va) il buon raccolto nel cuore dell’estate.
Un abbraccio Michel. Come va l tu salute!?
In Francia il 15 agosto è una festa religiosa (l’Assunta) ma nell’antica Francia rurale il 15 agosto era legato alla mietitura del grano ❤
Esatto ma nn mi hai rassicurato sulla tua salute! Buona notte
La mia salute non è molto buona, le mie arterie sono semiostruite. Recentemente ho subito un intervento chirurgico a queste arterie. Aspetta e vedi ! ❤
Piena sintonia con mio fratello (73 anni) che ha il tuo stesso problema e dovrà operarsi domani… sono in ansia per lui. A te il mio abbraccio forte e keep informed all of us 😍
Tutto il mio incoraggiamento a tuo fratello, Sherazade. ❤
Sì, grazie Michel💕💕💕
❤ ❤
Je vote pour “chandelle” !
Belle soirée à Janine et à toi, Michel.
En faisant toutefois attention de ne pas brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts, Gilles ! 🙂
For me it’s the quietness of a remote hiking trail with only the sound of the girls panting at my heel.
I see you marching bravely at the head of the troop raising the Thanksgiving banner or the stars and stripes high, Judy! ❤
I don’t normally see solo hiking as requiring any bravery, but this morning I read about a mountain lion taking a dog that was on a leash. The poor dog owner could only stand helplessly as the cat took his Chihuahua. Hopefully, my dogs are big enough to be a deterrent to any hungry predators!
Fortunately your dogs are two ,Judit. This may repulse away the predator .
Hi Judy – glad to see you hear at Michel’s place 🙂 Have a wonderful Thanksgiving time xxoo Cassi & Lola
Hello Cassi . Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! ❤
… and Thanksgiving greetings to the two of you as well. Thursday is the big day – and we will be with family on Thursday.
Thanks Frank for your greetings for this day. Enjoy with family.
Maybe they just went home when the daylight hours were through…Or…candles. A very happy THANKSGIVING. I am thankful that we are friends. I won’t be eating much since I have an autoimmune disease but I have eaten enough in previous years.
Of course, Françoise the food is traditional at Thanksgiving but is not the best the gathering of the family? Merci for your wishes . Love ❤
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Happy Thanksgiving Michel … you do look so cosy and comfortable!
We finally have the intense heat of a real summer, something new as we missed it last year … so no fires needed here and we enjoy such long sunny days 🙂
Enjoy the sun, Kate . Light and warmth are comforting. We got our part during spring and summer but without rain at all . So it was the drought. ❤
ah today we have the heavy threatening cloud cover and rapid drop in temperature that we are more used to … I do pray our summer wasn’t limited to a week …
I wish for you a true summer time, Kate . However it is true the big differences betwen seasons tend to disappear
it’s actually quite frightening …
Yes, Kate,It’s destabilizing. We need to well manage time. ❤
I imagine they used whichever they had at hand, a combination if they were wealthy enough. As for me, I am grateful for my electric heat and lamps, although I do appreciate a nice candle now and again.
A candle from time to time , yes it is good , Susan but as you say the comfort brought by electricity is so precious .We appreciate the comfort brought by he progress.
For example, Susan, the electricity is so precious to warm the cup of coffee or tea early in the morning ! 🙂
Thank you, Michel! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! 🙂
We can celebrate everything we are thankful for every day of the year!!! 🙂
I am thankful for you, Dear Friend! 🙂
(((HUGS)))
❤️ 🙏🍂🥧🍎🍞🌽🙏❤️
PS…a quiet warm place to read is always heavenly! 🙂
And we can say thanks for everyday of life . Health is so precious, Carolyn.
Of course there are times priviledgied such reading by a fireplace lighted by an antic lamp! 🙂
A special reading time for sure! 🙂
And watching fire in the fireplace gives me a feeling of quietness, Carolyn ❤
Me, too! 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤️🙏❤️
And we can say thanks for this, Carolyn. ❤
…and a job well done brings joy! ❤
Your photo provides the ambient and comfy peace that all a thanks giving should ever need. Thank you for the holiday wishes, Michel. Thank you for your inspiring and lovely posts. xxoo Cassi & Lola
This is a great pleasure to find you again Cassi. with your xanga name.! THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS ❤
The world needs more tranquility and quiet. That is for certain. Bonjour, Michel. Be well. Neil
Tranquility and quietness , this is named PEACE , Neil.
I understand quiet and do get it some of a day. 🙂
A bit of quiet in a day saves it, Bonnie ❤
just could use some more some days Michel.
Yes Bonnie more quiet and less worries would be the ideal , the best .<3
I do like the heat and glow from a fireplace (but we don’t use ours). Your photo looks comfortable!! We are getting ready for Thanksgiving – tomorrow I start baking pies and put together several side dishes. As for those first pilgrims, I think their practice was that once night arrived they went to bed! They has so few resources that they were very frugal
I hope Val, you have not any worries with baking pies and other dishes for this Day? 🙂 ❤
That looks so relaxing. Although I worry that the oil lamp may not be bright enough for reading. Wishing you good health Michel.
In fact, Matt, I had made again the ancient system to get the light . It was an experience ! 🙂
Thanksgiving Day is notorious for bringing together all the family members with different political and/or religious opinions. It makes a hot situation worthy of a television comedy, but the family that doesn’t have to deal with these upsetting individuals can truly be thankful! LOL!
What is forecast for your thanksgiving, Doug?
Thank you. We have a lot to be thankful for.
For Janine and me , it is sure even if our health starts to decline ( with the age ) ❤
Even with bad there is always something to be thankful for.
Yes,, I agree totally. We have to focus on what is positive <; ❤
Yes.
Always stay positive !! 🙂
I try to. I may be down at the end of one day but the next day I wake up fighting.
Yes you are a fighter and you are a great help to Wrangler during these sad anniversary days. ❤
The secret is to keep busy forme. Busy equals less time to think. I had a reflection time this morning for ten minutes. It is time to move on with my day.
You are right. Doing keeps the mind occupied without drifting into sadness. ❤
Yes it does.
Thank you, Michel! The girls, Misha, and I will celebrate On Friday. The girls have to work on Thanksgiving. Still, plenty of good food ahead.
My eye dirt went well. Now it just needs to heal.
That should be eye surgery.
So you escape to that , Rachel ?<3
I wish to you all a happy Tanksgiving, Rachel! ❤
We have a lot to be thankful for, Michel. What a lovely scene of contentment in your photo!
Love ❤
Cheryl
Yes , Cheryl, only for this little moment of peace I can say thanks.. ❤
I didn’t think he wants to use oil lamps but it looks beautiful in your photo! Thank you for the happy Thanksgiving! Sending you blessings as well!
The scene with oil lamp was of course a try to to live the antique ❤
A lovely way to think about those brave souls who went across the Atlantic to start a new life. You do look very cosy there by the fire 🙂
I was trying a historical reconstitution and of course I felt good , Julie ; ❤
Oil lamps near the fire – that reminds me of the last power outage here. Hope you and Janine are both well, Michel.
You are right . It is sometimes useful yo have at hand ancient tecnniques , Cynthia. ❤
Happy Thanksgiving to all your family Lots of Love
Thank you Nancy . I will think especially of you tomorrow ❤
Thank you, Michel. Janine captured a very serene scene in that photo. You’re looking good, hope you’re feeling well. When the kids were little I sometimes wished for quiet. Now that everyone’s gone it’s too quiet. Perspective. Enjoy your day also.
Christine ❤️
We are well near the fireplace when weather is wet and cold , Christine.
Health? 4/10. Fortunately some children come to do some works in the house and the garden !
LOVE ❤
It is fascinating to think about the past. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Yes my mind is in the present time but my feet are in the past! 🙂
Effectivement Michel, la question mérite d’être posée
Oui, Sylvain . Peux-tu me dire où se trouve la boîte à commentaires sur ton blog? Pas trouvée .
Michel, il est vrai que la possibilité de laisser un commentaire,
est quelque peu laborieux.
Une fois que tu as cliqué sur le texte souligné ici par exemple “arc en pluie”, tu arrives sur la page dédiée au texte et à l’image, tout en bas sous le bouton cliquable “j’aime”…le commentaire que kmaidy vient gentiment de déposer et encore plus bas…tu peux lire:
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Voilà enfin, tu y es 😉
bonsoir Michel,
nous avions un peu oublié notre stock de bougies mais je pense que ces prochains temps elles nous seront très utiles !
bises et bonne fin de semaine à vous Michel !
J’y pensais aussi récemment, Maidy . Par les temps troubles que nous vivons un stock de bougie parmi d’autres choses pourrait être utile .
Amitié ❤
Michel
I like the cloudy days when it’s quiet and I have to turn on a lamp and light the fireplace. I did have a wonderful Thanksgiving, thank you my friend.
You look so peaceful and happy there in your photo.
Glad you have a nice thanksgiving , Gail, well surrounded by your children and grandchildren.
Yes I llike the fireplace working : so peaceful. ❤
I love the photo, Michel! A quiet peaceful day by the fireplace, complete with oil lamp! We had a good day here, too. Quiet and peaceful, Rick made dinner for us.
Much love to you, Janine and the family, ❤️
Lavinia
Compliments to Rick to make the cooking for this day .What a loving husband,L avinia.
Love ❤
Michel
l’homme frugal nous montre le chemin 🙂 low, localized light is the best, for many reasons
Vivre dans la simplicité n’est-ce pas source de bonheur, Neil ?
Oui—Thoreau a écrit, “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life . . . to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail” (Walden)
Merci de me faire connaître ces philosophes américains (Thoreau, Valdo). La gloire de la simplicité.
moi, je ne peux pas aller jusqu’à les extrêmes dont il a écrit (et le ne veut pas) . . . but the advice is sound ! The Buddhists say, if you have a mansion, you can still only be in one room at a time, if you have a feast, you can only eat one mouthful at a time. We can get too addicted to abundance and comforts, and it doesn’t take much to be wasteful ! It is a good sight to see the old lamp and the fireplace being used and appreciated.
I like reading Buddhist quotes. In France we say: “not to have your eyes bigger than your stomach.
We can also say that too much comfort can make you forget the simple joys.
I am happy, Neil, to see that my modest post inspires you so much research
Thoreau est bien aimé parmi nous . . . il était le premier “hippie” americain 🙂 cependant, on dit qu’il n’était pas aussi rustique qu’il l’a fait semblant—qu’il allait chez maman pendant les week-ends etc. 😉
I have to say the hippie style is not mine, Neil ! 🙂
I just love that photo of you reading the newspaper in that peace-filled light. We had a very happy and blessed thanksgiving in my son Sayeed’s home. The entire family was there. Too much food! ❤ ❤
Janine and I understand well your pleasure, Zakiah, to be with all the gathered family . Fortunately we keep this tradition. ❤
Sometimes Michel, we find comfort in the most simplest of things, and I think sitting by a log fire in soft light reading without distraction and within the silence of that quiet solitude is a luxury many have never experienced…. For their world is often in harsh bright light, with the noise of TV, Video Games etc….
I love to burn candles and sit in the soft light of my salt lamp…
Sending love from England Michel as we wish all those who celebrate Thanksgiving a Happy Thanksgiving weekend…
We have so much to be grateful for.. ❤
Parfois, Michel, nous trouvons du réconfort dans les choses les plus simples, et je pense qu'être assis près d'un feu de bois dans une lumière douce, lire sans distraction et dans le silence de cette solitude tranquille est un luxe que beaucoup n'ont jamais connu… Car leur monde est souvent en pleine lumière, avec le bruit de la télé, des jeux vidéo etc…
J'aime brûler des bougies et m'asseoir dans la douce lumière de ma lampe à sel…
Envoi d'amour d'Angleterre Michel alors que nous souhaitons à tous ceux qui célèbrent Thanksgiving un bon week-end de Thanksgiving…
Nous avons tellement de raisons d'être reconnaissants.. ❤
I share totally what you write in this wonderful comment, Sue . I think you would make a beautiful entry on this topic enhanced by you marvellous writing ❤
Thank you Michel….. I have I think in the past shared a few posts on the quality of silence and just being in the moment out in nature…. Nothing beats those quiet moments of contemplation
Merci Michel….. Je pense que dans le passé j’ai partagé quelques messages sur la qualité du silence et juste être dans l’instant dans la nature… Rien ne vaut ces moments calmes de contemplation ❤ ❤ ❤
Ah! Sue ! How much I would be happy if you posted those posts from the past where you share your love of silence and meditation in nature ..
Let me hope . ❤
A link to one such post dear Michel..
Vibrations, waves transmitted to the entire web. It’s an interesting symbolism, Sue.
A big Thanks for the link.
Love ❤
Michel
My pleasure Michel…. 🙂 ❤
You are welcome, Sue. ❤
Bonjour MICHEL bonne lecture attention que ton journal ne prenne pas feu
Un petit passage par chez toi
Agréable Journée
A Toi qui marches sur la route de ta destinée ! Ce jour est comme un pas de plus que tu fais vers toi-même.
Tire de ces prochaines 24 heures une leçon de vie, un enseignement de l’existence pour devenir le meilleur de Toi-même
Bise amicale Bernard
Avec beaucoup d’avance je te souhaite d’agréable fêtes de fin d’année en famille
AMOUR SINCERITE BONHEUR ARGENT ET LE PLUS IMPORTANT LA SANTE
Merci,Bernard, pour ce gentil commentaire, mais je suppose qu’il y aura encore un échange de commentaire avant¨Noël 🙂
J’ai toujours, à la maison et à la campgne, une ou deux lampes à pétrole, un peu en souvenir de mon enfance Africaine, quand les pannes de courant étaient fréquentes. Et iciça arrive. J’espère que la France sera épargnée…
Comment va? Au moins doucement j’espère?
La lampe photographiée ci-dessus me vient d’une grand tante . Elle a environ 140 ans !
En ce qui concerne, cela va piano! Merci.
140 ans? 1880 à peu près? Quelle histoire pourrait raconter cette lampe.
Piano? Rappelle-toi le dicton Italien:
Chi va piano va sano… (Ça se comprend tout seul je pense?)
Bon courage.
Amitiés
Brieuc
Très belle image aux tons chaleureux.
Chaque souffle de vie est une grâce, gratitude … Donc Thanksgiving c’est tout le temps ♥️
Amitiés,
A-M
Très vrai Anne-Marie . La vie est une grâce et une merveille de chaque instant ❤
Un ami parisien qui vit à Bienne près de chez nous, le Dr J-C Fajeau, résume dans ses ouvrages : “Tant qu’il y a de la Vie, il y a de la Vie”. Et d’autre part, Rudolf Steiner, père de l’Anthroposophie, écrivait que les synonymes de Dieu étaient ” La Vie, l’Amour et La Liberté “. Tout un programme à célébrer
♥️
An interesting thought, Michel. I would think a fireplace and candles. Just my guess.
Best wishes to you and your family! ♥️♥️
There’s something very comforting about sitting reading by a log fire flickering – no noise other than the crackling of the fire. 🙂
Looks cozy.