FORGET THANKSGIVING IF YOU’RE A TURKEY
IF not, then it’s definitely past time to prepare. I went to the grocery yesterday, and was struck by the presence of actual food lines, not for feee food, simply to get inside the store and have a few seconds to grab what I could of what’s left. Interestingly, the one thing there was plenty of was turkeys. Raw, pre-cooked, stuffed, half and even TV dinnered. Lots of turkey(s). Everything else seemed in limited supply. What’s going on? Is the turkey abundance in response to the President’s pardoning this year’s turkeys? Or simply a mark of evolving animal intelligence? A plot by ham producers (everything porcine seems to have hit new highs in terms of price these days)? Or does it represent a national shift to insects and/or vegetables? Then again, maybe the portended rail strike is secretly already underway? It’s hard to know anything for sure these days. On the other hand, if you’re a turkey and still alive, rejoice!
Me? I’m planning a traditional turkey dinner but without the turkey: You know, mashed potatoes, instant brown gravy, cranberries in mandarin orange juice, instant stuffing, yams with marshmallow topping, green beans and, of course pumpkin pie with whipped cream. And that’s just the holiday meal. As for the holiday itself, my partner and I will both be working all day and we’ll be truly thankful for that. If it’s a mail holiday, we’ll be thankful for no bills. If not, we’ll be thankful to receive our paychecks (please send us paychecks to be thankful for). Add thankfulness that we recently received two awards for the STATIC movie, we’ve finally paid off our mortgage, car and all fifty credit cards (at least it seems like fifty), didn’t dabble in BitCoins and our retirements are not subject to the Stock Market. Thankful that the mass shootings aren’t happening in our neighborhood (knock on wood), that our local police are still intact and, yes, very caring, and we’re not participating in the proffered world war, at least, not yet.
Even with all that thankfulness flowing about, I do feel sorry for our planet. Earth didn’t deserve us. I fear its regular “breath” is becoming more of a terminal rattle, and would be wildly thankful if the so-called leaders and managers of this world would get their stuff together, and lead and manage a new wave of stewardship in which everyone could proudly participate. Sigh.
And, if you’re a turkey, well, you can still be theoretically thankful in general and existentially so that there are no turkeys in space or on other colonizeable planets for humans to eat, at least as yet.
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Me? I’m planning a traditional turkey dinner but without the turkey: You know, mashed potatoes, instant brown gravy, cranberries in mandarin orange juice, instant stuffing, yams with marshmallow topping, green beans and, of course pumpkin pie with whipped cream. And that’s just the holiday meal. As for the holiday itself, my partner and I will both be working all day and we’ll be truly thankful for that. If it’s a mail holiday, we’ll be thankful for no bills. If not, we’ll be thankful to receive our paychecks (please send us paychecks to be thankful for). Add thankfulness that we recently received two awards for the STATIC movie, we’ve finally paid off our mortgage, car and all fifty credit cards (at least it seems like fifty), didn’t dabble in BitCoins and our retirements are not subject to the Stock Market. Thankful that the mass shootings aren’t happening in our neighborhood (knock on wood), that our local police are still intact and, yes, very caring, and we’re not participating in the proffered world war, at least, not yet.
Even with all that thankfulness flowing about, I do feel sorry for our planet. Earth didn’t deserve us. I fear its regular “breath” is becoming more of a terminal rattle, and would be wildly thankful if the so-called leaders and managers of this world would get their stuff together, and lead and manage a new wave of stewardship in which everyone could proudly participate. Sigh.
And, if you’re a turkey, well, you can still be theoretically thankful in general and existentially so that there are no turkeys in space or on other colonizeable planets for humans to eat, at least as yet.
#DanielSJanik #turkey #thanksgiving #food #intelligence #ham #insect #vegetable #strike #dinner #holiday #mortgage #debt #BitCoin #StockMarket #WorldWarIII #Earth #Gaia #planets #colonize #stewardship #author #actor #award #Static #movie #film
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