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For those who didn't attend the last Tribal Gathering, could someone elaborate on the format of the event?

Trickydog,

The fighting is pretty much exactly the same format as with a public gathering, except there is no audience besides family. I don't remember if we skipped knife fights last year. The first day, we start in the morning, take a lunch break, and then fight again in the afternoon. Sunday is more of the same, but we don't break for lunch; it's one session and then we close. In the past, Kaju Dog has done some nice informal presentations on emergency medicine after the second day of fighting.

The event has usually taken place in Temecula, CA which is about 60 miles north of San Diego County, instead of of the usual Los Angeles County location.

GD

Trickydog, may I request a mae sowks (you) vs. siniwali (me) fight on Day 2? My blood pressure just shot up as I typed that, but I would enjoy the opportunity!

Grateful to be having a fun, fast Friday at work!

Thought I was getting sick AGAIN yesterday. Grateful to feel much better today!

Thanks, Maxx.

Today, I am grateful to have fixed something which was not working before.

Grateful for training time with someone I haven't seen in a long time.

Grateful for order where there was none before.

Grateful that something unexpected did not wipe me out.

Grateful to feel a bit more alert than yesterday.

Grateful to be returning to work tomorrow.

Grateful for all the things I learned in 2009.

Grateful for a nice meal with family, and the completion of a few minor errands.

I'm at home, and pretty ill, but I am grateful it's not worse.

I posted that before things really got bad. I was diagnosed with the flu, and Pneumonia on Monday night, so I've been living at my folks' house in an effort to keep my four month old healthy. I'm grateful for my parents, who insisted on taking me to urgent care the moment they heard I had a high temperature. This thing (which is going away) might be a lot deeper in my lungs if they hadn't acted. I'm bummed to be missing my little girl's first X-mas eve, and day, but I'm grateful that I'm not much more sick.

Grateful for a productive morning.

Grateful to have completed a large amount of work today.

Grateful to have started the day being silly, which brought a general sense of feeling positive.

Grateful to have just completed a VERY meaningful work project in which I was able to involve family, and friends.

Grateful to feel awake, and alert today.

Grateful to be in a very productive period that is not far away from the winter holiday.

Greateful for the ability to create, if only on a minor scale.

Grateful to be able to find meaning in my work.

Grateful to have a slower work day with which to try and get over a little cough.

So it is that on Thanksgiving Day of this week, we are called upon to pause and take respite; to acknowledge the divine intervention of our Creator in the affairs of this great nation; to recommit ourselves to obeisance of His will; to express our gratitude and give Him all thanks and praise for the bounty which He has bestowed upon us.

I will admit that these lines made me stop and reflect that for the most part, the Thanksgivings of my family have become quite secular. There is a great deal gratitude expressed, but our Creator is rarely credited. I need to spend some time thinking about this, as we will start our first Thanksgiving meal in a few hours, and then drive a ways to eat a later meal with extended family.

I'm a high school teacher, and the day before Thanksgiving (as I did yesterday) I show the following digital video every year in my classes. I'm sure many of you out there have probably seen it. it is a little heavy, but I don't think it has to define the tone of your Thanksgiving, just make you take a moment and reflect

http://www.miniature-earth.com/

I am grateful for the safe birth of my daughter in the summer. I'm grateful to have a job this year. When my wife recently called the paramedics in terrible pain, I'm grateful it turned out to only be kidney stones, which have since passed.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, your families, and your friends.

Am I incorrect, or hasn't the tribal Gathering always been in April? How about April 24th and April 25th?

That is indeed Mother's Day, Guru. 

Just to repeat what I posted on the members boards: That was some of the hardest fighting I've seen at a public Gathering in some time. Congrats all!