"Our national holiday, Thanksgiving Day, is a time for football, friends, family, feasting, feelings of gratitude, celebration of our freedoms, and reflection on our foundation. A day of immersion in the physiology of communing, breeding, feeding, digesting, nesting, and resting, and a reprieve from the grind and the physiology of fortressing, fighting, fleeing, freezing, faltering, or, for some, even fainting."
"The Constitution provides a solid foundation for not only governance but for wellness and happiness, too Building without a solid foundation is foolish and leads to rapid failure. Corrupting an existing foundation is reckless and leads to an inevitable collapse. Foundations require inspection, maintenance, repair, and protection from undermining forces. On this day I found myself sitting at the dinner table with both growing gratitude and growing hunger."
Thanksgiving Day combines football, family, feasting, gratitude, freedom celebration, and reflection on foundational values. The holiday provides a physiological reprieve from stress responses, allowing communal behaviors like feeding, nesting, and resting. Observing grandchildren prompts contemplation of long-term meaning for future generations. The Preamble to the Constitution enumerates foundational principles: forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility, providing for common defense, promoting general welfare, and securing liberty for posterity. Strong foundations enable wellness and happiness. Building without a solid foundation invites rapid failure. Corruption or neglect of foundations leads to collapse, requiring inspection, maintenance, repair, and protection.
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