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from CNN
May the emptiness at our tables and in our hearts be filled with memories of love and laughter. May we cherish our traditions, even when they are out of reach, and hold on to the hope of what's still to come. We're going to get through this together, even if we have to be apart.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
The cost of living in the United States is an increasingly salient topic in public-policy circles today. As Mark J. Perry from the American Enterprise Institute documents, child care, education, and health care have become more expensive relative to wages over the last two decades. Conversely, cars, clothing, food and beverages, household furnishings, housing, software, and toys have become cheaper. In light of today’s holiday, we will focus on the cost of a Thanksgiving Day dinner between 1986 and 2020. The positive picture we paint certainly does not detract from the real hardship American families have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it may make us more grateful for the U.S. farmers and free enterprise that make food historically superabundant.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
HOW WE TELL THE STORY (OR, HOW CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM MAKES RACISM INVISIBLE)
People often qualify as "good Americans" by accepting a myth of American greatness which also denies American complicity in evil -- a habit which also seems to go hand-in-hand with being white.
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from Maclean's
Canada's national current affairs and news magazine
Canada's national current affairs and news magazine
There were once at least 3,000 Pentlatch people living in more than 90 large villages and small settlements around the [Union Bay] area. They spoke a Coast Salish language related to K’ómoks, but carried on a technologically elaborate and culturally complex way of life down the centuries that was quite unlike anything the first anthropologists and linguists encountered among the Indigenous people around the towns of Courtenay and Comox in the late 1800s. The only way to get a glimpse of the former life of the Pentlatch is from what they left behind, from the archaeology. The story of what became of the Pentlatch people is an unavoidably sad one, and it isn’t easy to tell.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Being called a Pollyanna is usually not meant as a compliment. But being optimistic doesn’t mean ignoring things which are dreadful or discouraging, it means controlling what you can and not wallowing in what you can’t. Focus on dread and all you have is less joy.
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