Happy Thanksgiving

Time marches on inexorably each year: from flailing new year's resolutions via valentine's day (and the mad rush for a date or alternately, a good byline denying that valentine's day even matters - depending on where the year finds you), past spring flings, mother's day and father's day, the fantastic promise of summer which somehow never seems to reach it's full potential, winding down with the mad leaves fall dancing, traipsing through Diwali & Nav Ratri, just to get to the deliciously spooky creepiness of Halloween and then moving onwards now with the confidence of a sure thing to the crazy cluster of holidays - Thanksgiving (and Black Friday & Cyber Monday its unlikely cronies) where the final push to gift/shopping/visiting insanity is our constant friend all the way to Christmas and another new year's eve.

Each one of us sprinkles on important dates for garnish on this ratatouille dish of days and months - a birthday here, an anniversary there and if you are like me umpteen concerts all across the genre board.

Inexorably, we progress  this business of living and being. Each day we show up. Reinventing , learning, adjusting, changing and hopefully improving.

But today is Thanksgiving. And in this mad merry-go-round that spins us every year from one end of the diameter to another, the memories that stand out the most are the one's about giving and being grateful (even without cause).

There are people struggling with poverty, natural disasters and dictators.

There are those who are seeking: marrow donors, organs, blood transfusions, love, jobs.

There are those who have almost given up on finding an helping hand, a glimmer of recognition, an acknowledgement that they too exist or matter.

There are those who are attempting to be heard.

This planet is sure getting more and more crowded everyday. And our needs keep growing as well.
The question is, what are WE going to do about it?

May this holiday spark the giving & gratitude in all our hearts.

 ( On a personal note, I'm glad I actually cooked a Thanksgiving dinner this year - it took me only 25 or so years since the time I first got here (US) as a graduate student! )

Written by:  Miss Gitanjali Gulve Sehgal AKA Ms. Gitanjali GulveSehgal AKA Miss Gigi Sehgal 

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