Thanksgiving

Sally asked me today why I was the only turkey on the farm and I told her that it was not always this way and that there used to be another turkey and his name was Biggun and, well, while we do not know all of the answers, and may never know all of the answers, all of the clues that we do have suggest that he was eaten last Thanksgiving by the man and the woman.

She was quiet for a while after I said this and then she asked me what Thanksgiving was and I realized that I had never even really looked too much into it before. I had become so focused on the ideas that people were eating animals - and a lot of animals - that I never spent time looking at what Thanksgiving is all about.

I have spent some time on google.com tonight so that I can have a better answer for her than "I don't know" which is what I said to her today.

I have learned that when people from Europe first arrived in this country they shared a feast with the Wampanoag in the fall and then I read that it is a time when families come together and express gratitude and then I read some more that families should not express religious or political ideas at Thanksgiving because that makes for a not very fun time.

So it does sound like people come together for the right reasons but there are a lot of rules.

I need to read up on this a little bit more I think but if you have any notes or thoughts on Thanksgiving I would be very happy to hear them as well!