_______ Thanksgiving?

Kind of a low energy day around here today...but we are going to Lenore's mom's house later this afternoon for turkey and all the trimmings! I have been feeling pretty tired, perhaps because neither my red blood cell counts or my hemoglobin levels had returned to normal before yesterday's infusion of Rituxan. As I was half napping and half watching the Lions-Packers game I got to thinking how odd it really is to wish people a Happy Thanksgiving. Happy somehow seems to connote delusion and distraction -- meaningless football games and the promise of shopping -- happy, happy, happy! Living here in Bemidji between three reservations makes us more aware that the history and meaning of Thanksgiving is more ambiguous than the adjective 'happy' implies. Likewise, this is hardly a happy holiday for us this year but still in reality we do have much to be thankful for even with events of the past month and a half. So, I've been trying (fairly unsuccessfully) to think of a more more appropriate greeting -- Have a reflective Thanksgiving? a thoughtful Thanksgiving? an aware Thanksgiving...any ideas? /dps