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It's easy. We don't want to reinvent the wheel. So contact your local church, your local grammar school, high school, and/or college. Get your local Rotarians and/or Soroptimists involved. Any service group that's inclusive and comes from the heart. Get together and have an old-fashion potluck on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Have music and activities for the kids. Some locations make snow goose costumes and have the kids sing "a weee are the world". Make circles. Hold hands. Keep things light and happy. No cell phones. No T.V. No politics. No sports. No computers. No causes. No religious overtures. Just happy, good-feelings, and big smiles and lots of laughter and heart interaction. Meet strangers and tell them why you are giving your personal thanks. Only think of good things. No complaining. People actually get high on giving thanks. It's wonderful to have a day of gratitude and giving thanks. It prepares us for our own personal family Thanksgiving and the Christmas season. We've also found out that its best to allow a lot of quiet, non-music time so people can visit and talk.
Then just before sunset have some drumming and/or bagpipes, something really moving and every family now brings out their candle. Have a few extra candles on hand for those who forgot to bring their own. Light the candles, face east, and someone mention the original Thanksgiving where two very different cultures, Native Americans and Europeans got together at Plymouth Rock, and ate in peace and harmony and mutual respect.
Then visualize yourself as a gigantic buffalo bone as the Lakotas say, an instrument of receiving and giving. And the faster you give, the faster you receive. An instrument of giving and receiving so huge and powerful that you can gather all the goodwill of the stars and FLOOD the Mother Earth with GOODWILL! You are as HUGE as the heavens and the earth is no larger than a grain of sand. YOU are GREAT and GOOD and POWERFUL and ALL FORGIVING and full of Thanksgiving-giving-giving, so you can receive the Life-Force-Power from the whole UNIVERSE!
Some locations have background music. Some have the kids humming and/or singing. There are no rules. All is open and from the heart. All is good and holy and beautiful. You do this for 60 seconds, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, whatever. Then you hug the person to the left and right of you, blow out your candle, and take it home to your own Thanksgiving, inviting that stranger who's alone or that relative you don't particularly like. Make it easy. Keep it simple. Let it be fun and full of laughter and joy.
Contact us. Blog on. Send pictures and suggestions. Remember, we have the whole world in our hands. Weee weee wee, the ANGEL SNOW GEESE of Ourselves, miracle makers are weee, and it all begins at home; here, within your own heart where all worthwhile living takes place.
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