Thanksgiving Day

I am grateful to have been able to spend the day with a group of people that are kind and with whom I share common concerns and values. It was a meeting I have been looking forward to for a while, and it was everything I hoped it would be. I also realized a while after returning to campus how thankful I am for having had the distraction today. I am thankful that my mind is so full of questions related to my research that I can somewhat avoid thinking about what has happened and what is happening to the south. When I do think of it I feel so many things, and I am reminded of the confusion I felt after the bomb blasts here in Ahmedabad in July. I am thankful this evening to not be in Mumbai, and I am thankful to not have witnessed personally any of those horrible events. I am thankful for the emails from my friends and family, because even though I am an 8 hour train ride away from all of that, it has certainly had the power to unsettle me.