rainey 🌻It is Wednesday, everybody.
Tomorrow is the fourth Thursday of November, which means the USA will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, or perhaps Friendsgiving tomorrow or Saturday.
My fellow Americans, weird and otherwise, how do you perceive Thanksgiving? Is it just an excuse for getting together with loved ones and enjoying a feast? Should it be formally inverted the way Indigenous People's Day was created to counter Columbus Day? Do you actually take the time to reflect on things you're grateful for? If you're Jewish, is this just Sukkot part two, minus the tent?
Canadians, I am not familiar with your Thanksgiving beyond the fact that it's a different holiday that you celebrated last month. Does it also have problematic origins?
Fun fact: I grew up in a culturally Jewish but otherwise non-religious home. It was a long, long, long time before I learned that a lot of people consider Thanksgiving to be a religious holiday.
Neither my husband nor I are big holiday celebrators. We generally just have a vegetarian mini-feast for dinner and enjoy the leftovers for the next few days. I'm definitely looking forward to the Tofurky "ham-style roast" that's sitting in the fridge, as well as the butternut squash that's sitting on the counter.
And to everybody who will be dealing with problematic relatives, stay strong and take care of yourselves.
G.I. Robot 