Alas, this year, I am eating a traditional meal. But I thought I would share my previous reflection as I read for a bit of turkey, ham, and dressing. May you find family and culture at the heart of your celebrations this year in spite of history and truths of life.
A Different Thanksgiving: Indigenous Recipes? After reading indigenous histories, I'm not into celebrating the first Thanksgiving. I know that event was mostly fictional. Thanksgiving is mostly about celebrating family, not the fictional account of Pilgrims and Squanto.
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I must say, that alas was with a smile. I am grateful to have food to eat, period. I mean to highlight the fiction of thanksgiving celebrations, the more important truths of family and life in spite of real life horrors visited upon those who preceded us, whose history I was ignorant of before.