I legit forget Thanksgiving is tied to racist myths until it comes up on Twitter every fall. I think this is because I don& #39;t have children getting spoon-fed those racist myths.

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For me it& #39;s about harvest and thankfulness and everything that& #39;s good about the darkest time of the year: gathering with loved ones, enjoying good food, telling stories, and lighting candles and fires to warm us up. Celebrating in the face of the coming cold.

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It& #39;s also in many ways the easiest holiday for a multi-religious family to celebrate.

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That said, I pledge to have some conversations with my nieces and honorary niblings about this as they grow up and get taught the racist myths (hoping God and a vaccine make this possible).

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I will also re-read Robin Wall Kimmerer& #39;s essay "Allegiance to Gratitude," about the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, this year, and hope to teach my niblings about it someday.

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[Paused to take a call from our CSA farmer, whose CSA I bought into in the summer but not the winter. She said she just wanted to hear my voice and make sure we weren& #39;t experiencing food insecurity. Y& #39;ALL. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht"> This right here is what I& #39;m thankful for.]

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Personally, I can think of nothing so fulfilling as sharing with everyone I can Kimmerer& #39;s vision--and many Native visions--of belonging, responsibility, and mutual care.

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We can do better than we have done. We can be happier than we are. We can thrive--but only when we adopt a different mind-set than one of extraction, greed, and hoarding wealth.

We could make this place beautiful. We could live absolutely surrounded by beauty.

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