The True Meaning of Thanksgiving
Photo Credit: Nicole S Many of us in the US are preparing for tomorrow's feast, for the gathering of friends and family and for the traditional events that surround this day we call, Thanksgiving. However, I have taken time out of my preparations to write about something I read that simply makes me crazy. According to a Time's article , Macy's and other stores are getting a jump on Black Friday by being open all day Thursday. I am all for free enterprise, but please! Keeping people from their families, from the ability to have one - yes, ONE - day off to give thanks in whatever form that takes for them, is simply wrong. I refuse to shop on Thanksgiving. There is nothing I need that I can't wait 24 hours for it. Several years ago, I researched the Thanksgiving holiday for a class I was teaching, I discovered an interesting fact. Giving thanks for the harvest was NOT a pilgrim tradition. Giving thanks was an Native Am...