Thanksgiving Reflection · 27 November 2025
Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday, so I thought I would take time on Thanksgiving to reflect on Thanksgiving. Especially since some people like Thanksgiving and some people do not.
Now, I am not going to get into reasons why people do not like Thanksgiving except to say that some people just do not like the food. Or maybe preparing the food. Which is a valid point. I mean whether or not you like turkey and stuffing and gravy and mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce is beside the point. After all, you do not need to eat what is seen as traditional Thanksgiving food on Thanksgiving. You do not need to eat turkey and stuffing and… Well, you get the picture. You can eat whatever you think ought to be your Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving. No apologies necessary. To anybody.
(By the way, if you think I am giving you permission to eat whatever you want on Thanksgiving or any day, I am not. It is not in my power to grant you that permission. Unless, of course, you think you need somebody to give you permission. In that case, by all means say that the MediocreMan on the internet gave you permission to eat whatever food you want to eat on Thanksgiving. Or any other day for that matter.)
Heavy sigh (Not for the last paragraph, but for the next.)
I know that there are political reasons or even historical reasons for people not liking Thanksgiving, too. People have that right. Of course, they do. But I will not debate those issues. I am not savvy enough to do so for one thing. And who needs to have arguments on Thanksgiving anyway?
Speaking of arguments on Thanksgiving, I think arguments are okay. After all, perhaps we need a little discourse in our lives. The problem is that we do not know how to have civil discourse anymore. We think that name calling and screaming are part and parcel with arguing. We think that reason has nothing to do with life anymore, so we just conjure up assertions and call them facts and say we are having reasonable civil discourse. Actually, I do not know that I have been at a family dinner when that happened. Unless, of course, I was the one who started it all. Sorry about that.
At any rate.
I think when all is said and done, we all ought to just take a day to be thankful. Everybody has at least one thing they can be thankful for, right? Even if it is being thankful that we got to take that previous breath. Or the next one. Breathe in. Breathe out. Aah.
Well, I was going to try and be more positive than this on Thanksgiving. I was going to try and lift up somebody’s spirit. But I do not know that I have done that. What I do know is that I am thankful for life. For my family. For my friends. For my faithful readers (both real and imaginary). And I am thankful that I know the One I am thankful to.
I hope that you have a great Thanksgiving. (Whether you actually like the holiday or not.)
© 2025 Michael T. Miyoshi
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