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[chironcentaur]

So, for the first time in my life, I am alone on Thanksgiving

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[acousticdryad]

I'm on AIM if you want someone to chat at :)

[erl_queen]

Look at it this way though - you don't really buy into all the mainstream society crap about anything else, so why do it about holidays? I wasn't with my family yesterday - none of them called me, I don't even know if any of them really noticed me gone, especially now that I've been gone for about four years from all major family gatherings. But I didn't even notice, because I don't really care about Thanksgiving. Even if I were back in Maine, I wouldn't have a burning desire to do the family get-together thing.

Yesterday, before starting ritually stuff (for Lampteria), Sannion and I went grocery shopping. Not for last minute turkey fixings, just my regular weekly grocery shopping, because we knew the store would be empty. We realized that in a way, one of the most subversive things about us is that we don't participate in these en-masse cultural holidays that even most other pagans, or weirdos, or other folk do.

If today is just another day, then it really doesn't matter where you spend it.

[chironcentaur]

I actually used to enjoy Thanksgiving. I never spent it with my mother or father (who went to New York every year with his wife's family until very recently). I went to my aunt's house, it was just the two of them and my four cousins. It was never a family gathering or even a formal meal. I liked that.

But I suppose you're right. That situation was nice but I don't have it anymore, its too far away. And in truth I don't give a shit about the spirit of Thanksgiving, I probably shouldn't celebrate at all. :-)