Happy Thanksgiving From The Empire!
Labels: Friendship, Life, Relationships, Thanksgiving
By Nina Nintius
Beloved citizens of Nina's Known Universe, your Empress and Emperor bid a most joyous and festive day of giving thanks. Whether real or imagined, may your harvest be bountiful, your table overflowing and your guests passed out on your couch.
Traditionally speaking, and according to Wikipedia Thanksgiving is an American holiday celebrated primarily in the USA and Canada. The country of Grenada also has a holiday named Thanksgiving, though it is unrelated to the first and occurs in October. However, your Imperial Leaders believe that since one need not be religious to be thankful that it should become a Universal celebration throughout all the lands. As with all things, one may abstain from any occasion for any reason. Perhaps you have nothing to be thankful for...
Here at the Palace, we have much to be thankful for and so we take this opportunity to share that gratitude with our Universe. First, the Empress is thankful for dear friends and family who hopefully do not take her rantings as personal attacks or reflections of her feelings for any of them and that she realizes she is often stepping on their ideals and beliefs. It is because of them that she vents in this manner to make it less likely to spew into her personal conversations with the people she cares most about in this Universe.
Often strong opinions are taken as arrogance or even being pig-headed. At her heart she is an advocate for all peoples and their rights to do what they want to do as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. She just also believes there is a time and a place for all things and that not everything has to be everywhere. She feels that once the door to our personal freedoms have been breached, even in the name of God, it will only swing wider until all that we have now, is lost to fear, hate and short sightedness.
She is so very thankful to live in this great country where she can write such strong words, where she can swim in the venom of unspoken animosity, and where she can freely share her words with most of the free world without fear of being carted off in the night for treason or blasphemy. She is also thankful for those people who do not label her, for no group is completely Empress Approved. In fact, she feels that the groups are the problem. One of the problems.
The Empire is also thankful to all those who bother to read these articles, never knowing if it will be sweet, sour or sexy. Too many have been sour of late for which the Empress is deeply sorry. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It is not the things that people say that has The Empress fearing for all of our futures and being thankful for every day that it doesn't blow up in our faces...it is the things that they are not saying. Things like, "I see your point, I had not considered that before, let me think it over then we can discuss your thoughts further."
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! And Thank You For Reading!! ~99
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