Giving thanks the bird

oh turkey... delicious turkey... how we love you.

The holiday is all about comfort i think. There is not the stress of presents and gift wrapping, there is not the comercial push of the holiday buying insanity. Simple food, football and pie... oh the pie. It's a holiday of comfort found that connects us to the feeling of security and family. A tie. When you change the holiday traditions there are ruptures because our sense of stability is shifted, we suffer a tiny mental earthquake in that bridge to our pleasent momories of our childhood.

I wonder how many people do the "i'm thankful" ritual around the dinner table. How may in a week forget how lucky they counted themselves. It's the same with any holiday i guess. We create a pocket of emotion for that one day as oposed to creating a time within the day that will remind us of the feeling of the holiday the rest of the year. We have the full gamit of emotion in a year of we could be in touch with them all the whole year long. Patriotism, thankfullness, joy, awe, resurection celebration, new beginings, old memories, remembrances of those passed away, and on and on and on.

Do we create these holidays in our traditions so that we will continue to have a place for those emotions? Is it more convenient to have them tucked away on their own days, as opposed to dealing with the emotions daily and year round?

So much of our holidays are driven by commerce (for instance the posting of Thanksgiving by Roosevelt in order to give christmas it's proper shopping time) it's nice to just ignore that and concentrate on the emotions that sometimes go overlooked.

I think i'm going to celebrate Christmas on the 6th of Jan instead of the 25th... The presents would be cheaper...