Thanksgiving thoughts – the light and dark side!

What I like about thanksgiving is that everyone in the US celebrates it. It is a national family holiday. It allows the diversity of our country to be celebrated as there is no religious affiliation associated with it. I like the focus on gratitude and families gathered in the spirit of abundance and thankfulness. I do have some issues with the holiday though. I think we should drop the whole pilgrim thing. To me it is a farce and completely out of integrity to celebrate a friendly, peace-making gathering with the Native Americans. Cause even if we did we certainly didn’t act like a loving family toward them in the long run we ripped their land out from under them and killed off most of the native population. So, we celebrate a “happy” family moment and lie and hide the “dirty laundry.” In this way the holiday supports what happens all to often in families. What if we used the holiday to tell the full truth about what happened as we began our country and thereby support families to look at the dark side of their family history so they can learn from their mistakes and choose more consciously going forward? That would be my vision for Thanksgiving.