Ten Mostly Obvious Ways to Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~ Thornton Wilder

Thanksgiving is bloody, both in history and in present. I’ve written about both for many years, including here and here, and dozens of other Elephant writers have done so, too.

But it’s also just about my favorite holiday, perhaps, as it is for so many of us. It’s about friends, and community, and family, and slowing down, and sitting down to eat, and talk, and listen, and come together in this age when no one comes together but everyone comments and yells and replies and hates on and calls out.

So let us acknowledge what it was, and is, and then drop that, and move into something that creates more love, not more suffering.

“I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

10 mostly obvious Thanksgiving tips:

1. Let’s not buy a conventional turkey. Free-range doesn’t mean much. Let’s go out of our way to support small farmers and healthy turkeys. We are what we eat. Conventional…