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Classic & Vital & Fun Thanksgiving Videos.
But first! Or later! Read: A Buddhist Thanksgiving.
Everyone loves Thanksgiving, in America, except ironically, and painfully, our Native American sisters and brothers. The myth isn’t particularly true—that first Thanksgiving may have happened but it was one-way and there was already suffering and death if not genocide all around and we repaid that passing-on of knowledge and kindness one thousandfold with lies and murder.
But! And it’s an important but! Or, and: Life is full of suffering and that this chapter of human hypocrisy has ended up as a day to honor family and sitting down around a table to eat and talk—things this fast food culture has fast forgotten—is an important and healthy thing.
Let’s give thanks.
Thank you.
Without those of you who read, open this newsletter, or subscribe, we wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest independent, mission-driven communities. And gosh knows this world of ours needs some sanity, stability, communication around tough issues, and empathy, right about now.
So let’s honor the past, with a deep bow to our human tendency to hurt one another. And let us resolve to be kind.
And let’s honor the present, with a deep bow to family and good food (if you eat meat, make sure it doesn’t come from a tortured unhealthy drugged-up factory farm).
Enjoy these videos and images—they’re the best I’ve found. If I missed an image or video that should be included here, leave it in comments. If it gets a few up-arrows, I’ll add it in here.
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing:
The BYU Combined Choruses sing “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” arranged by Mack Wilberg from the album “A Thanksgiving of American Folk Hymns”
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