INSIDE OUT

Interesting, this "worst of all holidays". I highly doubt that Thanksgiving, in this culture or others, would today be celebrated for the arrival of the first "scalping" incident. Original post I think we can all agree that Thanksgiving, today, is a moment where friends and families gather together from near and far. We greet, we meet. There are no pressures of gifting in any kind. It is about as least commercial as our holidays get. THIS is the reason I appreciate this "THANKS-giving" holiday. Not all holidays, festivities, games, objects, or any other thing that people can muster up, which have had quite negative beginnings, are today considered a "bad" thing to be had. If this were the case, we would need to investigate our furniture, our clothing, etc, to see if what once was or what was once in one person's hand, did not have some sort of "evil" beginning. I know that for myself, Thanksgiving (even Halloween for that matter, as commercial as that is) has become a bringing together of peoples. Not, as it were, a celebration for stories of our forefathers and how "they" chose to celebrate in all of their ignorance. Christmas to me now is this: It is a celebration of an event. It is Jesus' birthday, not ours. Why do we insist on celebrating even THIS holiday with some overzealous consumerism? What one holiday once "was" does not have to continue. Nor, as it were, be once again "celebrated" by bringing it up in some person's blog and claiming it as the "worst" of all holidays. What once was in any manner, does not have to be today. In the wise words of a grand master to his Po, "what was yesterday is the past. What is tomorrow is a mystery. What is today is a gift"... or something like that, anyways. ;) So can we move on from all of these origins and celebrate in the best way we now know how? Relationships. The bringing together of peoples and perhaps, even in our own hurts and disappointments, letting this be the celebration of forgiveness and letting all of these "origins" be laid to rest and become new. Whether this is the day Jesus was born or not, the reason for his legacy was for forgiveness, after all. Now, why can't we use this holiday to celebrate just a little bit more of that?