Hello all,
It's almost Thanksgiving, our national feasting, gathering, and reflecting day.
It's long been my favorite holiday - great food, family and friends gathering, no gifts, no religious divisions, no school!
I've had my share of Thanksgiving mishaps too- still frozen turkeys, forgotten groceries, one badly felled tree that took out the electricity for 3 houses, unexpected snowstorms that kept people from gathering, Covid thanksgiving out in the freezing backyard, that year my sister was in the hospital, and the same predictable family member meltdowns - so it's not been all wonderful every year!
Thanksgiving can be a day of joy and of sadness depending on our circumstances. Who we are with, who we are missing, what we are lacking, what we are grieving.
And, if we reflect on our country's history with honesty, we must admit to the terrible mistakes we made (and often try to gloss over with images of happy feasting), or we risk ignoring and minimizing the damage European arrival and colonization has done to the indigenous people in the Americas, which many are still feeling today.
Thanksgiving is still my favorite, despite its complications.
Wishing you the happiest of Thanksgivings, whatever you will be doing.
All the best,
Holly
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