How Your Heart Can Hurt AND Be Happy When Thanksgiving Is Canceled
This year is different
A Story Four Centuries Old
You heard the Thanksgiving story from the time you were five years old sitting around the Kindergarten table coloring your construction paper headdresses and Pilgrim hats.
You listened to the tale as you glued the feathers onto the turkey you made by tracing your handprint. “What a feast the Pilgrims created to celebrate their survival after landing at Plymouth Rock!” you thought.
The story goes that the Pilgrims organized a big party with lots of food and shared it with the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans.
We love that story because it’s about people gathering together to eat good food, play games, connect with each other, and take a day off from the daily struggles of survival. It’s a story of two cultures who met and lived peacefully together for fifty years.
(It’s a different story altogether once greed and power made us start stealing land and killing the very people who had helped us most, but for now, let’s concentrate on the good chapter of the story.)
