Name: Watsonville Taiko Holiday Boutique
Start: 2026-11-01T12:00:00-08:00

You're invited! Watsonville's Holiday Boutique is coming up Sunday, Nov 1, from 12 noon to 4pm. Doors open at noon sharp. It's our annual fundraiser, raffle and craft fair. Get a head start on your holiday shopping with local crafts, succulents, plants, gift certificates and unique gift baskets.  And be sure to enter the quilt raffle &amp; choose-your-own-prize raffle.  More info:  email info@watsonvilletaiko.org <a href="https://www.watsonvilletaiko.org/events" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">watsonvilletaiko.org/events </a>  <a href="https://www.watsonvilletaiko.org/events" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watsonvilletaiko" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/watsonvilletaiko </a>

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Watsonville Taiko Holiday Boutique

You're invited! Watsonville's Holiday Boutique is coming up Sunday, Nov 1, from 12 noon to 4pm.  Doors open at noon sharp. It's...

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Thanksgiving asks us to be grateful.
But what if you are overwhelmed? What if your family relationships are strained, someone you love is missing, or the suffering of the world feels too big to set aside?
What if gratitude can't be called forth simply because the calendar tells you that it's time?
This Thanksgiving, I’d like to invite you into a different kind of gratitude practice, one that does not ask you to deny your grief, your loneliness, anger, fear or your &nbsp;uncertainty.
Thanksgiving Without Pretending&nbsp;is a seven-day email practice for meeting these holidays, and your life, exactly as they are.
Each morning from Monday through Sunday, November 17 through November 22, you will receive an email exploring one of the inner obstacles that can make gratitude and love difficult:
<ul><li>Overwhelm</li><li>Judgment</li><li>Disconnection</li><li>Scarcity and comparison</li><li>Jealousy</li><li>Sadness and loss</li><li>Isolation</li></ul>
You will not be asked to push these feelings away or replace them with positive thoughts. Instead, you will explore what becomes possible when you meet each experience with honesty, curiosity, and compassion.
Every email will include:
<ul><li>A short inspirational teaching</li><li>A guided meditation</li><li>A Zen koan or contemplative phrase</li><li>A poem</li><li>A simple practice connected to the holidays</li><li>A question to carry with you throughout the day</li></ul>
The practices will take approximately 10–15 minutes and can be done wherever you are. Regardless of whether you are preparing a large family meal, spending the holidays quietly, caring for someone, traveling, grieving, or choosing not to celebrate in the usual way the time spent in these practices will be a healing salve.
Gratitude is not pretending that everything is good. It is the willingness to receive what's here. It's remembering what continues to sustain you. It's allowing sorrow and appreciation, absence and love, to sit together at the same table.
Perhaps the deeper question of Thanksgiving is not:
What should I be grateful for?
But:
Can I meet this life with an open heart, and what becomes possible when I do?
I would be honored to practice with you.
Thanksgiving Without Pretending A Seven-Day Practice of Gratitude, Belonging, and Love
Dates:&nbsp;November 17-22, 2026 Cost:&nbsp;$50.00 Delivered:&nbsp;One email each morning Register here:&nbsp;https://IllanaBerger.as.me/ThanksgivingWithoutPretending

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