The Harvest Feast, as it is in 2020
I'm having Thankgsgiving dinner with my son and his wife. He gets tested for COVID several times a day at his job, and his wife doesn't go out much (she has some health issues). I'm bringing my dinner rolls, my world-famous rice stuffing, and a gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie.
I'm thankful for the skilled and compassionate people at the Heart Rhythm Center, who managed to reset my "atrial fibrillation" so that I now have the strength to help make the food for my little family's Thanksgiving feast. I'm thankful for Dolly Parton, who contribued money to the development of one of the COVID vaccines.I'm thankful to all the biologists who have been working hard to create treatments and preventions. I'm also a Mayflower descendant - I'm thankful for the Passamoquoddy tribe in Massachusetts, who shared food with the Pilgrims, and taught the new arrivals what was good to eat, and how to hunt it or grow it or find it. And there was a Harvest Feast where Pilgrims and Indians dined together. If the Indians hadn't fed the Pilgrims in the first place, my own ancestors would never have survived to become my ancestors. I'm thankful for the skills of my hands and my mind. I'm thankful for all my friends all around the world, and I'm thankful for the machinery that makes it possible for me to participate in group discusssions in video. I'm thankful for my son and his wife.
And I'm thankful that those big funny-looking birds the local folks liked to hunt turn out to be delicious!
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