Further to the article I just posted about the virtues of maintaining a thanksgiving attitude through the December holidays, here’s a creative and public way to simplify the holiday season.

Getting off the consumer bandwagon is hard! I’ve been working at it for about a half dozen years now and while I truly love a “less is more” approach to life it’s challenging at times to not go along with popular assumptions about “wanting more.” I recently picked up a copy of Juliet Schor’s latest book, Plentitude – The new economics of true wealth, to explore how I might deepen my commitment to a less material oriented lifestyle.

It is Thanksgiving season here in America. Soon friends and family will gather as they have for generations for the harvest season tradition of giving thanks. A few years ago I remember being caught off guard about the main objective of the season – being grateful. I was at a friend’s house a few nights before Thanksgiving Day and was asked what I had been grateful for that year.

In this Thanksgiving season let us remember that “it is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”