If only I could save the world by enjoying donuts. Puffy maple icing ones are a fave and the humble crumb donut will always work. Depends on the time of day whether I try donut shop coffee, meaning one place has reliable turpentine coffee, strong and tasteless enough to remove car paint, while another prepares fantastic brew. Sugary tip that I share is to focus on just donuts. They can be working best in altruism mode, the effort we give to do right by each other without attention on self since we are quietly munching a donut on the sidelines, observing the show and how, perhaps, we brought positive influence one way or another.

What is the surprise when my belly grows over Thanksgiving? What does flummox is why the Buddha has such a plump girth. From the few readings that I have browsed, some even offline, the guy seems focused on simplicity. More than a few lean years, living one grain of rice at a time, is how he operated, several research sources demonstrate. The near starvation as a way in, into the physical understanding that suffering happens when we deprive ourselves of basic needs, especially the spiritual kind.

How does Thanksgiving holiday 2021 fulfill America’s belly? Still a discovery process, yet a court jester, wearing her bright orange, blue, and yellow striped hat with a ringing bell at the tip, is at the royal “we” table and whispers a word. Expectations.