2019 Ultimate Thanksgiving How-To Guide
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Meditations
1863, a year quite dear to me. It is the same year I’ve chosen for the setting of our collaborative story, Bent Willows. Then, as now, America was torn apart by a sectarian violence fueled by racism and greed. That year (contrary to popular belief), our beloved sage, savior, and President, Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving not as a remembrance of the feast shared by Pilgrims and Native Americans, but in an effort to give thanks to God in the midst of a struggle for the nation’s soul:
“ . . . the reason that tables are set around the country on Thursday is not because of the pilgrims or their exploits . . . It’s because Lincoln, more than two centuries after settlers arrived in Colonial America, saw reason for thanks in the midst of trying times . . . ” — Isaac Stanley-Becker in this Washington Post article
Some (like Gloria Bates in her essay, “Thanksgiving While Queer”) have written about the angst many feel sitting down to…
