This year I’m wondering if gratitude is more about my eyes. Is gratitude about seeing the things around us in a more generous lens?
AJ Delgadillo
AJ spent his youth and early career around Goshen, Ind. He has cycled between social services and environmental education, striving to find new ways to prove and communicate their connection. After an early career focused in northern Indiana, AJ finds himself in Los Angeles. Living in the glittering and grimy metropolis poses consistent challenges to the identity and practices of a plain person. AJ is enjoying the questions he faces as a metropolitan Mennonite man.
As I approach my first Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) with no living grandparents, I think about how I will not share a meal with them again until I join them. This leaves me reflecting on what ways of honoring and remembering my ancestors can fit into my Mennonite practice.
