Day 5 of 7: Drawing Gratitude for FOOD

I mean, it's Thanksgiving. What did you think we were going to draw??

Hellooooo GUT peeps.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate in the USA, and Happy day 5 of week of Gratitude to everyone everywhere! This can be a challenging day of big feelings with family. Let’s try and hold a Both/And approach to every situation, and move through it with care and creativity.

Everyone’s gratitude drawings this week have been so personal, thoughtful, creative, and moving. I am honored and a little in awe of how you’re all really bringing your whole selves to each effort. Whether you’ve drawing for one day or four, I commend you for taking a moment to pause and reflect on all there is to be grateful for. It’s fun, feels good, and this simple practice can really change us (and the world) from the inside out.

Today’s assignment is a pretty obvious one.

Today we are drawing FOOD.

Note: I can’t find the source for this photo, sorry! If you happen to know who made this, please let them know I am both impressed and a little worried.

There are a lot of ways people celebrate this Third Thursday of November holiday is the US: family gatherings, Friendsgivings, tofu turkey, traditional food from our own family’s cultures, or maybe it’s just potato chips and football… but it ALWAYS involves eating. And, much of what we eat on Thanksgiving has a story or tradition behind it.

In my family, it’s my mom’s cranberry mold. She learned to make from my Grandmother. It’s a giant ring of jello with chunks of cranberry and other citrus in it. Honestly, it’s not my favorite thing in the world. But it’s a family tradition and it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a scoop of transparent, chunky, orange and red goo on my plate.

This is NOT my mom’s cranberry mold. And mom, if you are reading this, I LOVE YOUR CRANBERRY MOLD SO MUCH. (eek.)

For day 5 of 7 days of drawing gratitude we are drawing a food item, dish or recipe - thanksgiving related or not - that we are grateful for. It might be something with a story behind it. It might be something you make every year for this very holiday. It might be your favorite food, or gratitude for having food at all! (Always deeply grateful for that.) Whatever it is, before the cooking begins today (or in the midst of it) let’s put aside ten minutes to pause and get grateful for FOOD.

Here, I’ll start.

Day 5 of 7 Assignment: Grateful for FOOD.