I'm Thankful For...

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Funny videos like this! (Thanks to my BFF Richard for sending this to me this morning!)



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The only good part about Thanksgiving is the reminder about being thankful...
So here is what I am thankful for today::::

• my donkey JuJu, and all my chickens, ducks and cat Toots
• my lil' Luck Cabin, and all I have accomplished here
• my parents
• my axe & a good wood stove
• my improving health (or so i like to pretend!)
• organic & wild grown foods that keep me fed (especially amazake rice milk)
• my blog The Oko Box and all it's readers, makes each day better
• that i grew up in the wonderful & fun culture of New Orleans, LA
• my friends who come out to the Luck Cabin to visit me
• nature in general, and all around me
• that I am able to dance
• the deer hides I am about to get from the guy who is hunting on my land right now

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Xoxoxox
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Pee Wee's Thanksgiving (probably more true then the american version)

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Truth be known, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Maybe it was a twist of fate, celiac sprue... or my native american DNA - either way I don't celebrate it, especially in the all American pilgrim luv way they try to force pre-schoolers to believe in.
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When I was in pre-school we had a pilgrim play to perform for the adults. I arrived in my favorite faux fur fuzzy pink coat and once backstage I refused to take my fabulous pink coat off to put on the honky tonky pilgrim costume... I distinctly remember thinking the whole thing was creepy and wrong, a hippy would say "trippy" was the appropriate feeling I had.
In order to teach me a lesson, a punishment or maybe even humiliate me into accepting the American way of doing a Thanksgiving play, the teacher pushed me on the stage in my pink coat anyway. Instead of crying though, or running back to put on the brown smock I quietly began to protest... "I don't wanna be up here..."
louder...
"I don't wanna be UP HERE..."
LOUDER
"I DON'T WANNA BE UP HERE!!!!!"
repeat, repeat, and repeat...
until the embarrassed teacher signaled my embarrassed parents to get me down off the stage. My mom and dad pretended not to be related to me, my older sister sunk in her chair... aunts and uncles laughed their asses off since they had not birthed me, until one of them relented for my parents and went to claim me off the stage.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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Here is a video i freaking LOOOOVEEE, of pee wee herman's version of the first thanksgiving with the pilgrims! It is probably more accurate then our history books.

Pee Wee Herman's story of the first Thanksgiving from Rob Ashe on Vimeo.

XOxoxoxo