Today was Thanksgiving. I spent the morning doing my various exercises, and in the afternoon we went over to a friend’s house for a meal and social gathering. The gathering was all people that I know pretty well, from either the sweat lodge or the recovery community that I am part of. The two things that struck me most were how similar to other people I am and also how different. We are very similar in that we are all floating through various life situations, trying to do the next right thing and make some sense of things. Different in that they talked of sports, jobs, politics, movies and TV, things in the created order that I have no interest in. For the most part, I consider those things as distractions with little or no meaning.
They also talked of the new movie “Cloud Atlas” and the novelty and importance of the ideas expressed im that movie. Things like connectedness, karma and reincarnation. On the one hand I was glad to hear them talk about those things. On the other hand, my thought was “it’s about time!” since various mystics, healers, supposedly primitive people and spiritual leaders have been talking about those things for hundreds of years. I think I will stick with being grateful, that feels better.
