Thursday, November 27, 2008

posted by luisa brehm at 12:55 AM

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Blogger On_Peace_Mission said...

You're right: the modern concept of the holiday hides the harsh reality of combative relations between the parties after the symbolic dinner. It is very understandable that Native Americans would not wish to celebrate Thanksgiving from its historic perspective. Consider though that Thanksgiving is meant to be an occasion on which people take a moment to consider the things for which they are grateful; this holiday celebrates the emotions that drove a single event rather than the emotions that drove the parties to take different actions later.

We cannot change the past, but we can affect the future. Given that, it is my goal to move away from divisiveness, to build a future of cooperation and mutual respect, to create a world of peaceful coexistence that previous generations did not find possible. Some people even now do not find this possible. I remind those people that world peace does not magically occur some place, some time; world peace is here, right now, in my home. World peace is also in bricalu's home. World peace is in many other homes too, and the more we live in peace, the more it spreads to even more. I understand that it can be frustratingly slow to spread, and some may be slow to accept peace, but peace is the natural, inevitable state of the world.

11/28/2008 1:56 AM  

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