Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays in the U.S. It’s sad that our culture doesn’t have a consistent attitude toward recharging and refreshing the mind and the body. At least we have Thanksgiving.
At our house, this has become a tradition of having family and friends fly in and join us for fun and feasting. Jodi cooks an amazing meal, something she started practicing when we were living in California and experimenting with all the fresh food we had delivered from local farms. We still do that now – have food delivered from local Texas farms – and we have a house that’s comfortably enough to have lots of family entertained (separately or together). I have this dream of one day having enough people over to our house for dinner that we need to spread over multiple rooms, and the house will be filled with the din of conversation and utensils.
I’m always sad that more of our family cannot be together on Thanksgiving. But I am very thankful for the fact that we don’t travel for this holiday anymore – we stay at our own home, and celebrate it in our own way.
Here are some scenes from the kickoff of Turkenfunken 2012.
