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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re taking the week off of posting, and look forward to being back next Monday. In the meantime, here’s our little plug to skip Black Friday and Cyber Monday and save up for Giving Tuesday (which is November 28th). We posted two years ago about why Giving Tuesday is great and worth celebrating — at least in our minds, a lot better than feeding into the commercial machine that makes WalMart and Target employees go to work at 5pm on Thanksgiving Day. We hope you’ll consider it!

Happy Thanksgiving to all, may you make space to reflect on what you’re thankful for and what you want to keep fighting for in the year ahead! To inspire you, here are some words of wisdom from Sage’s eloquent husband from Thanksgiving a few years ago:

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