November 25, 2005
Happy Belated Thanksgiving
Posted by Christine Hurt

I missed the Thanksgiving blogging yesterday while at the Magic Kingdom, so I have to impart in a time-lapse way my Thanksgiving story.  My 4 year-old asked me a few months ago "what is Thanksgiving again?"  So, I told him the "Father Guido Sarducci" version of a people who lived in a place where they weren't free so they went across the ocean to a place where they could be free.  Life was hard, but after a year they had a great harvest and celebrated with a big feast to give thanks to God to bringing them to this place.  Luke's response:  "Is this the story with the Pharoah?"

Of course, this put my mind into a cynical spiral where I wondered if all these stories were just recurring mythologies of persecution and destiny.  A friend stopped my spiral by telling me that the similarities in the stories were not evidence of mythological underpinnings but merely evidence of the recurrence of bad Pharoahs.

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