Monday spiritual Rumination: Recovering Thanksgiving

I had the occasion to read and view some interesting posts this morning. One was from Nordstrom stating that they will “deck their halls” on the day after Thanksgiving. The other was in reference to someone ranting about Starbucks offering a plain red holiday cup and how it offended their Christianity in that it failed to say anything about Christmas in written form.

The irony is that the retailer chose to honor a time of thanks and the ranter road past Thanksgiving and went directly to Christmas.

[Just a little reminder here-today is only November 9.]

A number of facebook-ers responded positively to those posts, relieved, I believe, that finally, someone is standing up to the burial of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Added to this mélange, I passed a house sporting a lovely harvest flag and a very large, deflated turkey, and not a Christmas decoration in sight!

Here is…