HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Photo by S. Auberle

A repeat of last year's column, just because I think this Thanksgiving blessing is so right...

Thanks & Blessings be to the Sun and the Earth

for this bread and this wine,

this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food.

Thanks be & Blessings to them

who prepare it, who serve it.

Thanks & Blessings to them

who share it

(& also the absent & the dead).

Thanks & Blessings to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant & tend it,

harvest & gather it

(may they not want).

Thanks & Blessings to them who work

& blessings to them who cannot;

may they not want--for their hunger

sours the wine & robs

the taste from the salt.

Thanks be for the sustenance & strength

for our dance & work of justice, of peace.

~ Rafael Jesus Gonzalez