Thanksgiving...

Well... I intended to blog a little bit about Thanksgiving... some of my thoughts about Thanksgiving etc. but I am feeling a bit mixed about the whole thing - and - I know how I get when it is so late, and I start reading and researching... If I continued I would end up with some ridiculously long overly analytical entry about Thanksgiving and it's origin in reality and its origin as we celebrate it and it would literally turn into a 10 page paper... so for now I like somewhat what this guy is saying...

"Thus the antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history, but honest and inclusive history. "Knowing the truth about Thanksgiving, both its proud and its shameful motivations and history, might well benefit contemporary children," suggests Dorris. "But the glib retelling of an ethnocentric and self-serving falsehood does no one any good." Because Thanksgiving has roots in both Anglo and Native cultures, and because of the interracial cooperation the first celebration enshrines, Thanksgiving might yet develop into a holiday that promotes tolerance and understanding."

I like that - it's not throwing out all of the things we grew up learning and celebrating but it's also bringing in some honesty... and redeeming the whole thing for good... That's what's important I think -- not just acting or feeling elitist by "exposing" all of the negative... but saying - let's be honest and inclusive -- and then -- take that and be concerned with what happens from now on due to our celebrating. What good & positive potential is there? Let's harness it and go with it.


For some real wisdom... I will let Jack Handy share some Deep Thoughts re: Thanksgiving with you...

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!"