with a side order of irony

if you thought the last entry was touched by irony (and i don't just mean the syncronicity of the self-realizations coupled with the birthday of one of the two people who loved and trusted me most unconditionally and wanted me more than any other humans in known or recollected history), here's a brief start to what so many collectively call turkey day or a day of some thanks giving...

while most serve up turkey with all the trimmings and eat even more than the usual obscenely excessive daily consumption, i continue wondering who the turkey really is in our culture and look in the mirror... with a side order of irony...

i will celebrate this holiday when the red people are given more of their land, rights, dignity, culture, pride, self-respect, and self-esteem back…

until then, this particular cultural holiday is the day i step back and remind myself just how collectively insensitive, selfish, piggish, greedy, in denial, neglectful, deliberately ignorant, arrogant, and cruel we are as a society and culture…

and i am very thankful i can still remember this…