"Thanksgiving should come with a conscious effort to overcome our habitual insensibility to the movement of God in our lives. If we can do it on the last Thursday of November, perhaps we can do it on the last Friday, too, and maybe the days that follow." A.H.
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"It’s that time of year again.
"You know, that time of year when the price of a 16-lb turkey — a bird precisely nobody truly enjoys eating — suddenly matters to both politicians trying to make a salient political point and stressed-out grandmas preparing to host potentially riotous dinners.
"That time of year when supermarkets, dollar stores, and Hobby Lobby try to convince us that massive tall hats with oversized buckles really are nostalgic, while television networks in collusion with Apple TV+ (a streaming service almost no one pays for) continue to deprive us of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for no good reason.
"That time of year (yes, this phrase is getting a little old) when we drown political debates in whipped cream, pumpkin pie, and far too many hours of football games we find ourselves unexpectedly invested in.
"Of course, we all know Thanksgiving isn’t really about any of these superficial things — not the football, not the TV shows we grew up watching, not the political debates with our relatives, or even the price of turkey. It’s really about that awkward thing Mom makes us do before we fill up on the cornucopia that’s spilling out over our table: It is about giving thanks.
"Gratitude. It’s a virtue modern men tend to lack.
"Perhaps it’s the fault of our comfortable existence — most of us manage to have a roof over our heads, cars in our garages, food we didn’t have to grow ourselves in our refrigerators, and a myriad of tiny items capitalism has persuaded us will make us happier (but don’t). These blessings (and that’s what they are) manage to be so quotidian that we forget to recognize even their existence.
"Or maybe it’s the fault of the progressive mindset Enlightenment-era philosophers bequeathed to us via our modern political order — that mindset that tells us that satisfaction with the things our ancestors gave us serves as a roadblock in the eternal march of history toward its utopian conclusion. Satisfied and grateful men rarely make good revolutionaries." . . . More...
"Aubrey Harris is a graduate of Hillsdale College (2023), the former Intercollegiate Studies Institute fellow at The American Spectator and current columnist. She writes Spectator P.M. Newsletter for American Spectator subscribers where she rambles on current events, historical topics, and life in general." . . .
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