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| KILEE'S TAKE Thanksgiving Traditions This is my first year celebrating the holidays as a married woman, wife, or as some like to put it, an official balland-chain! This means there are new traditions, and Thanksgiving brings the first set. Since traditions are different from family to family, I wondered how they differed from country to country. I found my answer at Thanksgiving-day.org, where it states Thanksgiving is a harvest-related festival that celebrates communal harmony. In America, it’s a time for family reunions, while giving thanks for the fortunes we have received in our lives. For our neighbors to the north, Thanksgiving caused many arguments because people could not decide when to celebrate it. It went from a Thursday in November, to a Thursday in October. Then on Jan. 31, 1957, Parliament officially declared the second Monday in October Thanksgiving. It marks a day of parades, family feasts and reunions. In Korea, Thanksgiving is called “Chu Suk.” It’s held Aug. 15, and is a celebration to show respect for elders. Families go to ancestral homes, visit gravesites and have a meal that includes Songp`yon, or crescentshaped rice cakes stuffed with sesame seeds. Thanksgiving in Sabah, the second largest state in Malaysia, is celebrated during the Kadazan Harvest Festival in May. Locals believe without rice there is no life, so during this festival, they thank Bambaazon, the rice spirit, for a good harvest. In Australia, Thanksgiving is celebrated for three or four days in March during the Apple and Grape Harvest Festival. Grape crushing, apple competitions, street carnivals, grand parades and fireworks are among their favorite ways to celebrate. So, whatever your traditions are for the fourth Thursday of November, I hope they are filled with much happiness, love and laughter. 4 thecitymag.com
GOOD READS | Still Alice A book review by Sarah Devereaux Alice” is a “Still work of fiction, however, the reader gains a great deal of understanding about the devastating disease of Alzheimer’s. In her first book, Lisa Genova, author, describes the process and journey a woman and her family go through while dealing with the diagnosis and progression of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Still Alice by Lisa Genova Alice Howland, 50, is a well respected, Harvard professor specializing, ironically, in cognitive psychology who begins to notice small glitches in her memory. The changes are slowly becoming more obvious to herself, her husband, her three grown children and colleagues. “Still Alice” brings the reader on Alice’s journey–and the writing is so personal, you feel like you are living Alice’s life with her. We go to work with Alice, where her prestigious career is suffering. She forgets to go to a conference where she is a keynote speaker, and then sits in the last row of a class she is supposed to teach, thinking she’s a student. At home, Alice is getting lost on her way to familiar places and forgetting recipes she’s cooked from memory her entire life. The book describes the day-to-day details of dealing with Alzheimer’s. Although “Still Alice” is written mainly from Alice’s point of view, it also gives the perspectives of her daughters and husband. The reader begins to understand how the disease affects not only the patient, but also the patient’s loved ones. Readers also experience the coping mechanisms Alice employs to get through life. As her Alzheimer’s progresses, the writing style changes with Alice’s symptoms. This is a book for people who want to understand the disease on a human level– it is both heartbreaking and uplifting. As the author so beautifully describes Alice, “She liked being reminded of butterflies. Just because their lives were short didn’t mean they were tragic. They have a beautiful life.” Good Reads is sponsored by: November 2009 5
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