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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, etc. Consumers R us......

Long day, including 130 miles driving up n down the coast  which pains me, as I watch all the other me's driving round and round, n round.  It was fun, and good, and there is a cost. So invisible, but lets let some other me worry about that? 

And be grateful. It's what Thanksgiving is all about. Family, friends, going to visit, or/and to Sears, etc, for the sale, or buying a new car, extra sale day you know. We are open today, so our employees can serve YOU, and we can't give sale prices on stuff, which "you" really don't even need, any other day...... How many shopping opportunities left till Christmas? Buy now.....

I wonder what turkeys are grateful for on Thanksgiving, or anything which used to exist where whatever we are grateful for came from, or lived. With gratitude, I give my thanks to all and everything, from a humancentric view, and yet....   

Surrounded by overdrive. Even this durn thing, runs on electricit, or my camera, ripped from Nature, to capture pictures (such as this one of the beauty of Nature, with the setting sun kissing the ocean,) which perhaps help pay the debt of manufacture, and I am unsure, and unclear.  Perhaps, just perhaps, Nature has more value, living, whole, and undisturbed, than shredded into buy products, and perhaps, just perhaps, we don't need to buy more "stuff," or drive around and go shopping....

I wonder, what is "enough?" Perhaps we can be satisfied, and just give thanks? Chasing God's tale. In Gratitude.

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