You are very tired! I can’t tell because I’m tired too. in a few days Tens of millions Americans will get on planes, trains, or highways, godlessly stomping our limbs for hours on end. Worried that we’d left the oven on or packed it in layers. Is that enough? We will fight the crowd Brave the chaos, pay the bill, and we’ll get to wherever we’re going and we’ll eat. Maybe it’s cute or maybe it’s gross, but either way it’s a little crazy because we’ll be (at that time!) in less time than it would take a box of half and half to go bad. Do it all again
Or at least many of us who are gluttons for punishment will. We move our bodies and belongings across the country at the exact time of year when conditions in many places become dark, wet, icy, and freezing—again. We will miss togetherness, family and potatoes again. may We will watch football again. Many of us Will eat turkey again We will combine travel Quarrel and keeping all our large meals in one month full and exhausting. and there is no external reason
There is a better way to do things, and in fact other countries already do it. That country is Canada. and will celebrate Thanksgiving in October. We should too.
Canadian Thanksgiving is Second Monday in OctoberAlthough many people noticed it over the weekend. to preserve thin According to tradition I am proposing to reschedule it to the Thursday before the Canadian holiday. Calendar aficionados might notice that this is the same holiday as Indigenous Peoples’ Day or Columbus Day, which is cool, each has its own day, and besides, you know, there’s some overlap. So we have Thanksgiving on Thursday and another holiday on Monday. This creates a megabyte-long weekend, then slows into Halloween, after which we’ll have a full month to avoid interstate travel and attendant costs. Spiritual and financial values We’ll get our blood sugars in order before the holiday party season begins in earnest.
Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations can easily be combined if we want – squash is squash – and we get to celebrate the bounty of the harvest during the actual harvest. In a country where the leaves change color, it would be very beautiful. It would be a little warmer everywhere. It’s a little easier to lie down and play. We’ll let the holiday season drag on and take it easy. By making time for Thanksgiving itself. Instead, treat it like a Christmas dress rehearsal. We can still eat as usual, still have a parade, and definitely go shopping the next day. The only difference is the timing. Now there must be a reason.
We tend to think of Thanksgiving as a constant thing. It’s part of our national landscape, like Mount Rushmore. A unique feature of the holiday is that it’s the same every year. But another important feature is These are social structures. And Thanksgiving has fundamentally changed since its invention. The First Thanksgiving—What Many of Us Learned in School and with the pilgrims—i.e. Believed by historians which takes place between September and November And in addition to being a meal There’s almost nothing. To celebrate our modern era
In 1789, George Washington and the first Congress proclaimed on Thursday, November 26, “People’s Day of Thanksgiving,” But this is not enshrined anywhere forever. For decades, individual governments and families have celebrated this holiday on their own. When there are various events To express gratitude This means that it doesn’t have to be the same way. or on the same day or even in the same month or all It wasn’t until the 19th century that Thanksgiving as we knew it was known. That’s partly because of Sarah Hale, the editor of an influential women’s magazine. Decided that America needed a holiday that honored the domestic space. Those are the topics. that her magazine mentioned and Celebrate Protestant values– She is for many years.badger” The government is concerned about this matter. According to historian Anne Blue Wills, in 1863 Abraham Lincoln hoped to unite the nation as war tore it apart. accept: Thanksgiving is a federal holiday. It is permanently celebrated on the last Thursday of November.
no at But permanently, because 76 years later, we moved it. In 1939, Thanksgiving fell on the last day of the month. And retailers worried that a delayed start to the Christmas season would hurt sales, said Fred Lazarus Jr., president of the company that later became Macy’s. Lobby President Franklin D. Roosevelt would move Thanksgiving a week earlier to Second– Until the last Thursday of the month But Lazarus succeeded. The whole thing didn’t go over very well.– There are also football coaches. angrySeeing their big ticket game change from a major holiday to a random Thursday. Roosevelt’s political opponents accused him of acting out.”Hitler’s omnipotence– The Three Lambs parody Changes in short films only 23 of 48 States honored the new date, and until 1941 we had two Thanksgivings. A week apart, Congress finally passed a resolution declaring Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of November. It has persisted ever since.
My point is that we as a society are quite resilient. I think we can handle another Thanksgiving change. It seems unlikely that retailers will care much. And I am sure that if enough notice is given Football coaches can prepare. and Thanksgiving, for example. A secular celebration that many Americans love.Deserve better The best holidays welcome people regardless of religion or Relationship statusAnd there was no need for them to even bring gifts. It draws us together with those we love and honors one of the highest art forms of human existence. That’s gratitude. Although on Thanksgiving A more appropriate term is the one used by Buddhists—I am sad“Let there be feelings. Things that have been done–
Thanksgiving has changed along with the country. We start celebrating it in November because “Basically A woman understands the national calendar,” as the will told me. Then we moved it because a guy named Fred asked the president to do it. We have created and remade it to meet the needs of nationalism, business, politics, what is stopping us from creating it again?
