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What I found amusing?\u00a0 The entire piece, written by Kimberly Palmer, is devoid of any mention about anything to do with the roots of the Holiday.\u00a0 No pilgrims, no God, no religion, no faith, heck, no Indians.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the whole thing has some vague roots in some vague harvest celebration from some noncommittal time in the past.\u00a0 For some reason, sharing must have been important at some point, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s the advice given.\u00a0 Again, I have no problem with that particular suggestion.<\/p>\n

It just strikes me at how easy it\u2019s become, how we\u2019re all so used to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if we expect it now.\u00a0 We have no problem with certain things not being mentioned.\u00a0 With certain names never being spoken.\u00a0 With certain themes and events simply wiped off the slate.\u00a0 We\u2019ve come to expect it.\u00a0 It\u2019s in our blood, it\u2019s the ocean in which we swim, to paraphrase Peggy Noonan.\u00a0 That which offends must not be said, and we all know that in our post-modern age, nothing offends like religion, like our Anglo-European past.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I wonder if Ms. Palmer consciously avoided any and all references to anything historical or religious, or if it has become for her as natural as it has no doubt become for many of her readers.\u00a0 Just a thought on this, the night we watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"