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As I’m about to trek off with my side dish and dessert ad­di­tions to my friend’s house of fam­i­ly and friends, com­ing to­geth­er for a mo­ment of com­mu­nal ‘thanks’ for the ben­e­fits de­rived of our peo­ple, lands, a coun­try, this is the thing … 

Its his­to­ry, this day of ‘thanks-giv­ing.’ Some­times lost in a string of what we to­day call ‘faux facts,’ what­ev­er ‘the oth­er’ puts forth that doesn’t com­port with our beliefs.

I’ve been see­ing many posts with sen­ti­ment of lament and de­spair in irony that this is a day that puts poignan­cy to a cul­ture and eth­nic clash, be­tween ‘white Eu­ro­pean’ de­scen­dants and this land’s in­dige­nous peo­ple. ‘Pil­grims’ and ‘In­di­ans’ as orig­i­nal meet­ing and ‘giv­ing thanks.’ 

Lost is that the day, of­fi­cial­ly at a fed­er­al lev­el, by Abra­ham Lincoln’s Pres­i­den­tial Procla­ma­tion on 3 Oc­to­ber 1863, was meant to uni­fy a coun­try in strife, by re­bel­lion, ac­knowl­edg­ing the coun­try and its people’s bounty.

There is a spir­i­tu­al tone to Pres­i­dent Lincoln’s ef­fort, that many of what we mere mor­tals strive to make is due more to a cer­tain kind of high­er pow­er; maybe be­yond our com­pre­hen­sion, yet here we are. It is that un­like­ly great hu­man, Mr. Lin­coln who im­plored in us that we take stock, give thanks, for good for­tune visited.

In all this orig­i­nat­ing procla­ma­tion for a na­tion­al day of thanks, is a tim­ber for peace, for­give­ness and a com­ing to­geth­er in process. This day, as one would hope every day, is some­thing to be­hold as we gath­er amongst those we love and share com­mon striv­ing. Thanks to all we might strive to be. 

Love to all!
 

—eric ward

Flom­mist Eric Ward is a Hu­man Los An­geli­no (there are oth­er kinds), hu­man­ist, artist, in­dus­tri­al and graph­ic de­sign­er, nov­el­ist, toy in­ven­tor and en­tre­pre­neur. Life-long pur­suit is “What to do with a piece of pa­per?” Copy­right © 2018 Eric Ward.

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