I HOPE THANKSGIVING DAY WAS EXACTLY AS YOU ALL WANTED IT TO BE.
While recovering from a recent hospital experience, I sat one morning with a simple breakfast of Knudsen’s Concord Grape juice diluted with water; scrumptious Wheat Sandwich bread from Metropolitan Bakery in Philadelphia, toasted to perfection and spread with butter and bionatura Organic Bilberry Fruit Spread; Burlap and Bean Espresso coffee from Newtown Square, Pa made in a French Press (although a few days ago Sumi read that for health reasons a French Press and percolator are not the best way to prepare coffee. And so, a little research will begin on that).
With that simple breakfast before me, I decided to say a thorough thank you to everyone responsible for the enjoyment of this meal, – farmer, baker, supplier, retailer, and all of the employees – from land the world over. I was surprised at how many people and how much work was involved. And as I thought about the simple breakfast, the list became a very long one. Then I was reminded that it wasn’t only about the food, there was also the matter of the coffee grinder, plates, pot for boiling water, stove, toaster, utensils, glassware, tap water, and refrigerator. I truly hadn’t stopped to think about the extent of our dependency on each other until that breakfast thank you. A simple breakfast doesn’t seem so simple anymore.
On Thanksgiving Day I think the food would have gotten very cold had we all said a special thank you to everyone involved in that entire meal.
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Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. – Felix Adler
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh