Fwd: non-turkey Thanksgiving

[Bijoy Misra]

I am posting this as a part of sociology.  Yesterday was called Thanksgiving in the US.

People have a tradition of consuming Turkeys as a historic ritual.  I wrote the message

to help understand an alternate point of view.

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From: Bijoy Misra <misra...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 9:22 AM
Subject: non-turkey Thanksgiving
To: Lincoln Talk <lin...@lincolntalk.org>

Dear friends,,

In this town of Lincoln, I am a minority Hindu of Indian descent. 

Hindu is not a prescriptive religion, it is an empirical belief system

of acknowledgement.  That our existence is a blessing of myriads

of other objects and the cosmos is the acknowledgement.  I will 

complete twenty years of my residence in Lincoln next April.  

I thank you all for being good friends, wise neighbors, loving 

elders and analytic young professionals. Above all, I thank you 

all for the deep respect to the ground, to the earth.  The ground

is the core teacher of Hinduism. We dig it, we tear it and it still 

blesses us with food and shelter.  It's the Mother.  Let us continue

to respect the ground in our own way.  Let the ground continue to 

bless us with her trees, herbs, flowers, animals, birds and insects.  .

Happy Thanksgiving.

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra

Bedford Road