If Turkey Thought They’d Run Away a Week Before Thanksgiving

Joanne Reed
4 min readNov 25, 2022
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“If Turkey thought, they’d run away a week before Thanksgiving Day. But Turkeys can’t anticipate, and so there’s turkey on my plate.”

Jack Prelutsky

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends and followers! It is the occasion for the whole family to gather together around a Turkey dinner and show gratitude for all the blessings that came their way. This tradition started almost 400 years ago following an epic tale where pioneer spirit, courage, adversity, generosity, and gratitude took center stage.

For this occasion, I would like to serve you an article where la pièce de résistance is a turkey and for those who don’t like turkey, you can have swans instead. Not all turkeys end up on the dining table at Thanksgiving dinner, the wild types prefer to proudly strut their stuff, look pretty and be pretty wild.

Turkeys were considered as having a sacred nature in ancient Mexican Cultures

My thanksgiving message, be like the wild turkey

Did you know that wild turkey can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour and can…

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Joanne Reed

Published Author, Blogger & Scriptwriter. I write to inspire, entertain, & educate. www.authorjoannereed.net. Email: yourquest@authorjoannereed.net