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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:00 AM

That's how the light gets in

To truly give thanks this week is to celebrate the world. But for all of our obsession with success and self-fulfillment, Americans don't celebrate very well.
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Tuesday, November 21, 2006 07:26 AM

    A True Thanks-Giving

    Many, many thanks to Gary Kamiya. I think I'll print this out and re-read it every year—maybe every day. It's tragic, sad, ironic, and silly that homo sapiens are only and always at our most noble or despicable when time runs out. It's a shame we can't experience true living—and true thanks—every day, and instead, when our end approaches, face it with same blase we employ in daily life.

    So thanks Gary. From one blue-stated based, Democratic, secular humanist cancer survivor to another, thanks.

    —southendgirl Read southendgirl's other letters

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