This week's video is a re-reading of the grace I spoke before my family Thanksgiving dinner in Chicago:
A Thanksgiving Grace 2013 on YouTube, Facebook
Thanks to Ethan Kinsey for the Baobab photo!
A Thanksgiving Grace 2013:
let's bow our heads and close our eyes.
let's conjure all ancestors, all animals, all microbes -
all buzzing beings that share and have shared this universal space with us:
we follow in your disappearing footsteps
and sit on the world you've carved
what a miracle we have this
square cave and diverse sustenance
to share together
without fear of common violence
today
we have won a chance to live
we'll make our best of it
we have resources, we have friends
we owe every beautiful thing in our lives
to others
before us and around us.
let's thank those that made a space for us here
and
let's leave this a better world for those that follow.
I'm a return grace-performer at my family Thanksgiving table; here's Thanksgiving Grace for 2012 for example.
