So much for facing your fears with everyone else!
I haven’t paid much attention to this “holiday” for years, but given the facts of this year (plus the reign of terror that has obtained since 20 January 2017), I thought this would be a good time to bring it to you- my readers- so we all could work through our trepidations.
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Today is Thanksgiving. A holiday to remind us that our harvest has sustained us. Analogous to the holiday of Sukot, which was closer in time to the secular Thanksgiving before the date was moved. (It IS celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, which is mighty close to the actual date of Sukot.)
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Scientists from England and Germany under the leadership of Michael Hunter provided data that many of us considered to be fact. The researchers were curious about our sense of tranquility, a state they define as one that arises due to natural environmental features. They had found that the auditory characteristics of freeway traffic and waves breaking on the beach have similar spectral and temporal qualities (meaning that their basic sounds and natures are similar). The portions of the brains that were affected included the medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate gyrus, the temporoparietal cortex  (TPC) and the thalamus.  They published their results in the November 2010 issue of NeuroImage.
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