Thoughts on Thanksgiving Day
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas
Thanksgiving Day is a day to give thanks for the harvest we have been blessed with this season.
Thanksgiving Day gives us a chance to be thankful for the fruits of our labor, while reminding us that we must be constantly preparing for the possible perils of the winter that is to come.
Thanksgiving Day allows us to fill ourselves with nourishment, so we may replenish the energy we have spent from winter, into spring, and throughout the summer, as we have survived through rebirth and growth for the year.
Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year in which our agriculture comes to its culmination.
Thanksgiving Day demonstrates the spirit of collaboration among neighboring cultures who, while putting aside individual differences, and focusing on collective similarities, from which the strong bonds of friendship, family, and community emerge.
Thanksgiving Day connects places from different times and times from different places: From agricultural staples to industrial production. From native inhabitants to foreign immigrants. From humble origin to proud heritage. From an ancient past to a modern future.
Thanksgiving Day presents to us the opportunity to be generous with our bounty as we share our surpluses with those whose deficits were caused, not for lack of labor, but by labor lost in sacrifice to the world.
Thanksgiving Day is a day to be spent in service to friends and family, not by culminating with a meal, but by commencing with preparations.
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all of you.
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