With friends, it is meaningful when spent with kind strangers. It is meaningful when spent with family, it is meaningful when spent Of us have agreed that this is a do-it-yourself event. Because, somehow, in this fractious society, most 1? Because it grows in meaning and importanceĪs its definition broadens to include all who count blessings, whatever Wrote when establishing the occasion in 1863.īut its rituals - turkey, football, loved ones - tend toward the secular,Īnd the definition of giving thanks has become loose enough that everyone "our beneficent father who dwelleth in the heavens," as Abraham Lincoln Technically, Thanksgiving is a day on which we are to give thanks to
That retains a spiritual quality, yet manages not to divide us along religious Thanksgiving is a holiday that is both reflective and festive, a holiday Taking long weekends, sending greeting cards, holding barbecues or drinking
Politicized, trivialized or turned into little more than an excuse for It is the only generally observed holiday that has not been over-commercialized, and put the last Thursday in November at No. I could vote, I would pass up the heavyweights and perennial fanįavorites - your Christmases, your Fourths of July, your Valentine's Days If there were an Associated Press poll to rank the holidays and
Of what I wrote 10 years ago about the supremacy of Thanksgiving. I'd like to begin a four-day break by reiterating in this space some
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