Reading Teacherken's diary made me realize how thankful I am to be away from my students this week, as we are off for Thanksgiving.
It also has me wondering to what extent my frustrations and those of the people I know are the result of our national wealth, our sense of possibility.
Is it harder to be thankful in a culture in which it seems like you can always have more, do better? In which the narratives of our lives sound like a failure if they don't follow a course of increasing material prosperity and social standing? Do the values of Thanksgiving and this incarnation of capitalism sit together comfortably?
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