This year celebrate a day of giving thankfully in a way that brings life, joy and happiness to you. For you, if that means being with family or friends you enjoy being with – wonderful.
But if this means a big, meat-heavy dinner with high fat and carbs, drinking or watching endless sports on TV – or worse, being with people you don’t enjoy – then do something different. Give thanks in a way that suits you.
- Go walking in the woods – with a friend.
- If the weather is warmer where you are, pack a sandwich, have a picnic.
- Listen to music. Dance to it.
- Drink hot chocolate or make yourself a pumpkin pie smoothie.
- Light a fire in your fireplace or light candles.
- Take the money you would have spent on Thanksgiving and drop a few grocery store gift cards at your local food shelf. Do it before Thanksgiving.
- Learn more about hunger and what we can do to end it here.
- Recognize that too much of what we have was was taken from others and was never really ours. Our wealth comes down through the generations, in part from a land grab from indigenous peoples along with the unpaid labor from more than 6 million people enslaved by whites. This transfer of wealth continues today. Read about it here and here.
- Read a novel. Journal. Listen to the wind.
- Cultivate gratefulness.
- Cultivate solitude.
- Listen.
With deep gratitude – Roxanne
