I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That was a version of Sukot, the harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
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I am truly thankful, even if I don’t celebrate this moved holiday
I am pretty sure that you recall that I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday.
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Thanksgiving?
I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That was a version of Sukot, the harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
No gobble-gobble here.
I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. Mostly because my celebrations more closely matches how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That celebration was a version of Sukot, the Jewish harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
Can we? Should we?
First, one of the major change dates in my life.
It was erev Shabat. 1 week to Thanksgiving. 3 weeks to Chanuka. Our school day was winding down. (Fridays were short school days, so that those of us – like me- who needed an hours trip or more to get home- would be ready for Shabat that started around 5 PM.)
And, let us…
Today is the day that we are supposed to recognize the abundance afforded us. Of course, many of us have still not recovered from the Great Recession (especially in rural America and the Midwest). But, being the optimistic people we are, we all seem to be bound and determined to celebrate Thanksgiving. Unfortunately (this is my opinion), many of us are also bound and determined to wait on line for an interminable duration just to score that one sale item.
Gratitude
Today is a day we are supposed to recognize the abundance afforded us. Of course, many of us have this thought in the back of our minds- it’s kind of hard to feel gratitude while our paychecks are still pretty small (as I ‘ve discussed over the past week).
It’s not just for parades or sales- or football!
Today we recognize the abundance afforded us. Of course, many of us have still not recovered from the Great Recession (yeah, like the whole Middle Class). But, being the optimistic people we are, we are still bound and determined to celebrate Thanksgiving. Many of us are also bound and determined to wait on line for interminable duration just to score that one sale item.
Continue reading It’s not just for parades or sales- or football!
Gobble-Gobble
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.)
Gobble Gobble
Thanksgiving. An American tradition. One that is supposed to make us consider what it is for which we are really thankful.