Thanksgiving 2020

Let’s just take a minute to appreciate and be thankful for being alive and well today. Take a few seconds to just sit and be. Don't let your thoughts overwhelm you. Just meditate on something nice and pleasant. Truly be grateful and recognize you are okay. You are more than okay. Take more time in your day to just be more thankful, humble and patient. You are so lucky to be alive! Go say hello to your neighbor, be kind and help an elderly person or just have a conversation with a stranger.

With the Holidays approaching and Thanksgiving right around the corner, some of us will not get to spend time with our loved ones because of the pandemic. Covid-19 cases are surging during this time as many have predicted. These are challenging times.

Maybe now more than ever we should just simply enjoy our bodies and our health. This Thanksgiving, I am lucky to be with my immediate family. I am blessed with health and life. I cannot be more humbled and grateful for this.

Health is a precarious yet wonderful thing. It truly saddens me to see what is happening in our country. It shocks me to believe that in a country so vast and beautiful as ours, we are plagued by politics and Covid. Some people will not be celebrating Thanksgiving at all. People are sick and dying at this time. Many will spend their Holiday season in hospitals, alone.

How could this have happened? I am simply dumbstruck. What happened in this glorious country we call the United States of America? People are not coming together. Folks will be alone this season. This shows me how we are so divided and overrun by incompetence and corruption that we as a country have become sick. Now is the time to heal. This is not about politics. This is the time for healing of our plagued nation.

Thanksgiving is a time to get together. However, because of illness, despair, disparity and overall divisiveness, most will spend this year in quarantine and isolation. We are afraid to talk politics because we are unsure of where this will get us at the dinner table this season. Don’t even mention the pandemic. The country is ill this year.

Politicizing the problem will not help us heal. We are divided more than ever. This is a test of strength. We cannot give up now. We must solider on like with any battle with illness. Even through this hardship, let’s try to find hope and small joys through our sadness and difficulty. This is easier said than done but let’s build on our strengths as a nation and still find happiness this holiday.

As an activist, I have hung up my political hat. I am no longer interested in the affairs of state as much as the general well-being of this land. How can we become more loving, giving and repair this broken system? Now is the time. Yes, it’s Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for this year? How about just being alive? I know this year I am. A little soul searching will do us some good. It’s all within us. It’s all good. We are stardust. I wish you well. Let there be peace.