Buy more! Cook more! Eat more! Give more! Entertain more! Be grateful more! BE MORE!
At a time of year when our culture is screaming MORE to us from every angle, I offer a reminder that you are enough, there is enough and sometimes (maybe a lot of times) enough is enough.
Enough has a sensation. As Jay Michaelson wrote in his essay, Thanksgiving & Enoughness, the sensation of wanting and greed is a leaning forward, a tight grasping, a breathless desire for more.
Enough is different. Enough feels centered, grounded, upright, relaxed.
In this often-frenetic season, may you rest in the feeling of enough. That you are enough. That there is enough. And you know when to say enough is enough.
And speaking of resting, this is a silly cartoon I made after braving the crowds at the grocery store and seeing countless turkeys in carts. As a vegetarian, turkey hasn’t played a role in my Thanksgiving meal for years. But even before I stopped eating meat, the whole President-pardoning-one-turkey tradition struck me as macabre.
So my wish for turkeys everywhere and all of us everywhere is to have some ease. Frankly, a beach is probably not the location of choice for a turkey, so whereever it is for you — in a meadow, on a mountain, in a lounge chair, or on your couch — may you find the ease of enoughness.
Thank you for reading. I’m grateful for you. Happy Thanksgiving.