Thanksgiving

"The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention. The traditional "first Thanksgiving" is the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. The Plymouth celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. However, there was another, more modest Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation, Virginia on the banks of the James River in 1619. The celebration became an important part of the American myth by the 1800s.[citation needed] This Thanksgiving, modeled after celebrations that were commonplace in contemporary Europe, is generally regarded as America's first. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends."
-Wikipedia

This is typical of what we see when we look into how Thanksgiving originated. Honestly, I see this as a time when we can shift our focus from the myths or false stories about the celebration of a harvest involving two groups with different concepts of land ownership and resources, to a focus on current gratitude for all possibilities. I am grateful for possibilities that are new everyday. They arise everyday. More things become possible at every turn and for this, I give thanks. Every morning, we all have a new chance to be a little kinder, to improve our relationships, to bring some more beauty into our lives, to appreciate what is here now. I don't want to sound preachy, but feeling thank full is genuine.

Welcome

Today is the day. I am joining the blogging ranks! Why, you might ask, why you? Why today? Well, my friends, my dear invisible, potentially visible and tangible readers, it is time. My passion must be applied externally as I have no time to lose! Writing is breathing is healing is necessary and this is a good a time as any to begin.

My blog is entitled "Tara's Tongue" because I participated in an all female Spoken Word Collective of the same name awhile back and we had a great time collaborating and performing. Also, Tara's Tongue is a way of referring to a compassionate use of language, or compassion filled language, since Tara is a name associated with a Great Goddess of compassion.

Fiction blended with truth is the genre that comes easiest to some people- when it comes to creating. I might have made up the phrase or maybe other people use it. Spoken word and other kinds of work are often truth/fiction blends because it comes naturally to spin a story from what is real and what is experienced as real, the subjective truth. Add to the mix some imagined experience and images and you have a real genre to work with! Tara's Tongue is full of this. Hope you enjoy it, I know I enjoy creating it.

I am Imaya, which, loosely translated means - she who worships, she who pays her respects to the Buddha. I invite you to join me.