It’s Cyber Monday, a fairly new extension of the American consumer holiday, Black Friday. Some shopping centers extended deals as early as “Orange Wednesday,” which was promised to “be the new black.” The local midday news coverage included a report from inside an Amazon shipping facility in Indiana. Projections estimate that over thirty-six million purchases will be made today, just from the e-tailer giant.

My preoccupation with defining the authentic human experience in the Information Age is insatiable. I have come to believe that our best lives are lived outside of reality television and literally endless twitter feeds. 

We’re lucky. We have a lot to be thankful for, and even though we should be (and probably are) thankful all the time, we get one entire day devoted solely to thankfulness…and seeing how many types of pie we can sample before we start regretting it.

Your thankfulness-list probably includes your awesome family and friends, your dog, your health, and maybe even your job.

This year, I realized, I’m also thankful for dreams.