This Holiday Tale is inspired by the pompous Thanksgiving Celebration in the United States of America and the revered spot occupied in every heart by pumpkin, its agronomy culturally enhanced and economically boosted, and the equally tradition-inflated enthusiasm its commemoration brings about year after year. It is offered to all those who make themselves a duty to celebrate Thanksgiving and who strongly believe in its vastly cultural connotation.
If the Christmas time is celebrated as the Universe of the little ones from one to ninety-nine, and Halloween the time when scary becomes so familiar that it becomes a pleasurable experience, the day of f�te between the two-celebration known as Thanksgiving is nonetheless a day for enjoyment for the entire American nation. So, let us not deprive the United States, why not the world, of the quite mystic felicity that the Turkey Day enhanced by the Pumpkin mania brings about each year at the eve of the Christmas season. IsnÕt the pumpkin equally celebrated for Thanksgiving as Santa is worshipped for Christmas.
Hence, letÕs not stop offering to kidsÕ, and why not to grown-upsÕ imagination, chronicles that summon them to hold on beliefs devoid of frightening features. Let us do a little more than just call upon their innocent inclination to believe, letÕs encourage them to embrace the cultural, to uplift the sacred and to glorify what is traditionally established. We must keep on perfecting their innocence through instilling them the conviction that there is somewhere something holier than just the pettiness of the everyday struggles. In fact, no matter how much accomplished and grander than life we are, our cultural quests ought to be greater than we are and must aim at giving a sense and some essence to our everyday accomplishments. So, letÕs make of the Thanksgiving Celebration just a day of Turkey and Pumkin, but a day to see in the two main gastronomic components of the Thanksgiving recipe, Pumpkin and Turkey, more than just food, but cultural ingredients that give an intrinsic meaning to our reality and on which usefulness to deeply ponder.
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