Thanksgiving Break HW (edited)

Most of my observations about 'pro-body' vs 'anti-body' behaviors I saw took place around Thanksgiving break took place on the actual day. My mother and I started prepping the turkey sometime after or around one in the afternoon. Something I noticed, which wasn't strange at all to me, I just hadn't consciously thought about it before, was that none of us wore gloves while making food. While we (mom, my grandmother, myself and little brother) all washed are hands before starting to cook and between every stage, we still had no problems or worries with getting our hands dirty. Mom used her hands to cover the turkey with olive oil, garlic, minced vegetables and a light coating of teriyaki sauce for flavor and helping to brown the turkey. I used my hands to break up the croutons, mix in the vegetables and egg for the stuffing. While cooking there was no sense of the body being this 'dirty', disturbing thing that was not meant to come into contact with everything.

Something that I'm not sure if it's worth noting or not was that we used an electronic blender of sorts instead of a knife to cut and mince the vegetables. I suppose that could count as increasing the detachment between our bodies and the way we actually participate in life.

As for during the actual dinner there wasn't much forced uncomfortable behaviors like sitting upright in the chair like at school. The chairs in my grandparents dining room have larger seats than the plastic and metal ones at school and worn fabric and threaded cushions. My little brother sat at what would be the head of the table - if there were some actual significance to the seating arrangements in my family. My grandparents sat across from me, mom beside me and dad to my right. Before dinner, my brother and I set the small table, setting the turkey and stuffing towards the left of the table, mashed potatoes, yams with marshmallows and corn to the right. Everything was placed according to wear there was space for it after the plates, utensils, napkins and glasses had been set.

Everyone finished the meal at different times and left the table when they finished, cleaning up after themselves.