| This is shaping up as the Thanksgiving when people | | | | chestnuts wrapped in bacon? |
| return to old fashion values and go sparingly on all the | | | | Is pumpkin and squash soup any less delectable and |
| exotic side dishes that have come to signify the | | | | tasty then lobster bisque from the gourmet store? |
| opulence of the Holiday and our own sense of | | | | Are eating fish egg caviar what the pilgrims had in |
| excess. | | | | mind for their day of Thanksgiving? |
| In a lot of respects this Thanksgiving promises to be | | | | If we are not alone, if we can share the holiday |
| something special - something we can really be | | | | together, what difference does it make if we can't |
| thankful for. In spite of a recession families will once | | | | spend a lot of money on some fancy trimmings? We |
| more gather to rejoice in their freedom and the | | | | have more than most people can hope for. We have |
| bounty of their table, but this time most if not all of | | | | a bounteous table of our own making, and the family |
| the trimmings will be homemade and not store | | | | and friends to share it with. We have a lot to be |
| bought. Is that so terrible? I rather like it, and the | | | | thankful for. We are together. We are free. |
| smells coming from the kitchen make my mouth | | | | Too much emphasis on having all the exotic |
| water in anticipation. | | | | trimmings we can conjure up may be why we got |
| You do remember the aroma of a home made apple | | | | into this recession to begin with. Thank God the |
| pie wafting from the oven through the kitchen and | | | | American public has enough sense to know when to |
| out into the living room of a home you can afford to | | | | stop spending on fancy luxuries they can do without, |
| live in where a happy group of family and friends are | | | | and start saving for their own and their children's |
| gathered before a roaring wood burning fire, don't | | | | future. |
| you? Life can be good. | | | | When we all remember the lessons of the past that |
| Is eggnog any better when laced with | | | | our parents and grandparents tried to teach us, we |
| twenty-five-year-old brandy than with cheap dark | | | | will truly have something to be thankful for. Then this |
| rum? Does a Ford compact car get you where you | | | | recession will be gone, and the real trimmings of a |
| want to go as well as a Mercedes Limousine? | | | | wonderful life will come racing back to us with our |
| What store bought barbequed bird can compete with | | | | heartfelt thanks. They will always be ours to cherish |
| a twenty-pound turkey basting in its own juices as | | | | and remember. |
| its skin crisps and the smell of sausage and cornbread | | | | May the trimmings of your heart and mind make |
| stuffing sends the dog whining in anticipation and | | | | your cup full of love to the brim and your sense of |
| dancing in circles? | | | | joy running over. |
| Do the children playing games in the hallway know | | | | Have a Happy, Healthy Thanksgiving. |
| the difference between Oysters Rockefeller and | | | | |