So it's the day after the United States holiday called "Thanksgiving".
Businesses close down, airports fill up, turkeys die.

What I love about this day is that it gives an opportunity for friends and family
to get together and enjoy each other's company. Since it falls on a Thursday,
a lot of people will start travelling on Wednesday, so that they can enjoy an
extended weekend with friends or family. Friends and family coming together is
always good.

Here's what I don't like about it...we're celebrating a day when the Pilgrims attempted
to initiate the total genocide of Native Americans. If we really wanted to celebrate it properly,
I guess we'd invite all the people we've been trained to hate, and let them eat with disease infected silverware. I mean, DAMN, how do you turn THIS into a so called "Holy Day"?
Since it's a Holy Day, we should prepare to stop working, end projects, end progress, as soon as possible...because "It's a short week and nobody will get anything done".
Let's not forget that we've also been trained to start our Holy Day Season shopping right after this day. Just in case you didn't spend enough money through the year, now is your chance to go out and pay closer to what you should in the first place, for a bunch of crap you really don't need anyway. Our training has come along so well that we can't even wait until Friday to start our shopping. Some stores open at 5am and some at Midnight.
They invite us to come as soon as possible to get so called "bargains"....but they only have FIVE of the $99 laptop computers in each store. So after enjoying a Holy Day with friends and family, it's time to go out and push and shove and elbow your way past the peasants who are not as worthy as you are of having that $99 laptop. Yes, THIS is how we begin the Holy Day season shopping. Next they put up huge calendars and remind us of how much time we have left to spend as much money as possible "Only X shopping days left" the signs read, and we've been trained to feel guilty if we don't spend more this year than we did last year.
Now don't get me wrong, I like giving and receiving gifts as much as the next person...but my friends and I make a habbit of letting each other know that we love each other as often as possible.
We don't need Halmark or the government to tell us when to shop, when to take time out for each other, or when to waste money and be rude to total strangers.

Break away from the lies, spread the truths, train your children to love people that are different instead of fearing and hating them. Kill fewer turkeys, and make sure Popeyes Fried Chicken is open 365 days a year.


Shout out to my brother from another mother lordlv5 for inspiring this topic.
To my brother in House Cassioware thanks for puttin' up the "Wanna See You Freak" music video.

Love thy neighbor...daily....and more often if schedule allows.

peace and love,

- e.