Giving Thanksgiving

Hello fellow creators, wow, what a busy holiday season this is turning out to be, it is my second since I began my journey seventeen months ago, I've got to say it's a little more intense this time around but in a good way. I'll be the first to admit I love the holiday season, especially in Phoenix, our weather is very pleasant this time of year, it's a nice break from the long hot summers. Now there's another side to this amazing time of year and if your out and about, people are all stressed out planning, buying gifts, even fighting and hurting each other for the best bargains on black friday, I've even heard of worse things happening, but I won't go into that!.  I'd like to say that bieng connected to source is the best place you can ever be on the holidays, it seems to me it was meant to be this way, on thanksgiving I attended a special party, it was of a slightly different tradition, dinner around 8 pm, dancing, playing pool, there was even a pinata busting ceremony! I enjoyed myself immensly, at a given time there were 30 people there, the amazing thing was I never heard anybody talk about the stress of the holidays, they were living in the moment, the present. I realized then this is how it should be, this is the true meaning of the holidays, mind you, I only knew a handful of all who
attended. Now I'm sure some of  them may or may not have gone shopping the next day, but I decided that I
was not going to go anywhere to buy anything that black friday. I decided to do something no one would even think of that next day, I went to my favorite nature spot and watched a spectacular school of birds frolic in the field. It was as if they knew I was watching, for almost 2 hours this was happening, I thought to myself how can anyone not see this?, it was magical!, about 100 yards away, cars are passing by none the wiser. My own personal nature show, because I visit this spot frequently, the birds know me, we have a connection, as crazy as it sounds, it's very true, they nest nearby in a cluster of trees, where they've always been long before I started coming to the spot, in a big lot, near a busy street, and most people don't even see. The best part, because my focus was on the birds, I got a very rare treat of nature at play, I felt like crying, all this for me?, best gift of nature I ever recieved. Bieng connected to source during the holidays is the best gift to give to yourself, nature, and others as well, I'm learning there is more to this than gifts and stuff, the best gifts are all around us and the universe is more than happy to bring them to us especially when we notice them, oh, and as for thanksgiving, gratitude was very abundant!
Until next time soon!