Thanksgiving

“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.”– P. J. O’Rourke

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The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?”– Jim Gaffigan

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“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings – for the food on their tables and the babies in their arms.”– Cynthia Rylant, In November

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“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”– Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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Thanksgiving: A day when you trudge upon barren or even snow-packed roads to share a feast with family and friends  – a feast that many will not have, with never a wary thought that you are a part of those who do have, and not giving a thought of those who don’t – Decker

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“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”– Erma Bombeck

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This Thanksgiving Day’s musical offering, from the States:

4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo, Aaron Copland: III. Saturday Night Waltz · BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

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