Happy Thanksgiving. This holiday is my favorite, for it is about giving thanks, not giving presents. We are complex beings. On this day, gratitude is highlighted. It's a time to reflect on our blessings--no matter how bountiful nor how meager--and being grateful.
We seldom think about what it means to truly celebrate a meal. A meal represents a successful harvest or a successful hunt. Our everyday lives are filled with working to earn money to pay for food and shelter or leisure time filled with digitized content or the enjoyment of activities that produce delight. Nothing wrong with that at all--it just represents how far we've distanced ourselves from life's hard edge. Many do live on life's hard edge. From that we must draw our own conclusions and act or not as we will.
We are far removed from when our own shelter, food and clothing were products of our own hard work. The quilt to keep us warm, the barn built with the help of friends, the successful hunt for a deer, rabbit, or game bird, the harvest of corn to feed the farm animals through a hard winter--each of these things were critical to survival. Each of these things could be withheld through the whims of nature.
However, you celebrate this day, I wish you great happiness.
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