Over the past year, the MES team has become more international, with members joining us from New Zealand, Sweden and the United States. In the spirit of honouring and sharing the cultures within our international contingent, today we have celebrated a slightly belated Thanksgiving. While we spent the afternoon devouring pumpkin pie – a traditional Thanksgiving dessert to accompany a dinner of turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy and stuffing – we also called upon our American colleague Mallory to share some thoughts on what this holiday is all about.
There are many origin stories of how the Thanksgiving
holiday came into being, and debate as to how realistic some conceptions are of
a grand feast where the early settlers and Native Americans came together to
eat, share and give thanks for the season’s harvest. Regardless of what may or
may not have happened several hundred years ago, the underlying theme of
sharing and togetherness persists. Thanksgiving is a time to sit down for a
meal with loved ones without the frenzy of gift giving and receiving, and
reflect upon the things we already have to be thankful for over the past year.
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