# A Thanksgiving in June

Originally published: 2014-06-21
Canonical URL: /2014/Jun/a-thanksgiving-in-june/

Sitting on the green couch, eating cheese ravioli and sipping an allegedly peach-tea-flavored energy drink, admiring my brand-new wireless router and fresh installation of Xubuntu 14.04, I make a deliberate decision to drop to my knees in a song of praise which says, "God bless America!"—and if some not-yet-forgotten ghost or subroutine of intellectual integrity has me quickly disclaim that _God_ is but a metaphor and _America_ a metonym for concepts much less familar and perhaps slightly sinister, I don't _think_ it makes the prayer any less heartfelt.