Comments on: In Thanksgiving Daily: November 17 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/11/17/in-thanksgiving-daily-november-17/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dane http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/11/17/in-thanksgiving-daily-november-17/comment-page-1/#comment-4261 Dane Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:51:57 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=410#comment-4261 I just took my two children to visit Baskett Slough this weekend, a wintering preserve for the dusky Canada geese. When we arrived, there was a flock of well over a thousand geese (by my poor estimating skills) who were socializing, goose-like, together in the grass. As we were getting ready to leave, the entire flock took to the air. It was spectacular, specifically the way they rose like a wave. Rather than all rising at once, or in scattered spots, the flock peeled sequentially off the earth from one edge to the other, like dominoes or Saran wrap.

]]> By: Ben http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/11/17/in-thanksgiving-daily-november-17/comment-page-1/#comment-4259 Ben Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:08:02 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=410#comment-4259 Ah, their use of Walt Whitman makes me smile :)

But this poem has always puzzled me: what goose accent has “Ya-honk”? Where is this gander from?

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