Our Thanksgiving (and we bet it's different from yours!)

Thanksgiving Day ...
Well, always ones to do our own thing, today we fasted. Thanksgiving in the USA has become (seemingly) about over-indulgence - the expectation is to eat too much, sit around too much, watch too much TV, etc. By fasting, we are reminding ourselves of what to be grateful for - as the sudden absence of something (a partner, a paycheck, a home, a meal ...) is far more likely to encourage gratitude for what you had, and, if you get it back, have again, than gratuitously and greedily over-indulging. Of course, it will therefore comes as no surprise that we also completely avoid the other Thanksgiving 'tradition' of shopping. We celebrate Buy Nothing Day on Friday. We propose an Eat Nothing Day for Thursday. Stay tuned to that idea - it might just catch on. How about giving all the money that we spend on the huge Thanksgiving meal to the poor, to feeding the children in developing countries. Now that might just make us more thankful.....

We were further reminded of this on our drive to Birch Bay this morning when our car suddenly broke down along a country road .... plans for our usual beach side ritual were abandoned and AAA was on its way ... when we got the car started again! And yes, we were grateful. That's exactly what we mean. Grateful for the lessons too.

Our dreams are closer to fruition from today. Our life is changing again. Magic is in the air. Yes, today we are grateful (but hungry!).....

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child, listen to the don'ts - listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts - listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." (Shel Silverstein)