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Message from the Clerks - November 2022

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As a child, the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday is simple: Our crops were safely gathered in, so we will have food for the winter. Let us be thankful for this, and let’s have a feast to celebrate. As an adult, Thanksgiving has so much baggage attached: Turkeys still frozen when they need to be thawed. Feelings of thanksgiving clouded by deeper knowledge of the first European immigrants’ relationships with Native Americans. The political and economic things for which we are not at all thankful. Worries for people in our country and in the rest of the world who do not have enough food for the winter. Consumerism. Still, as Maya Angelou wrote, “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” Even with all of the baggage, it is simple: Our crops were safely gathered in, so we will have food for the winter. Let us be thankful for this, and let’s have a feast to celebrate. Marie Lindsay for the clerks team. Novemb

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