What is it about Thanksgiving that just rings a bell?
It's so funny that I forget all about this thing until its Thanksgiving and then around the holidays and I always feel SO compelled to write. I have said it year after year and for me, there are few things that are so utterly expressive and filled with so many of the totems of what it is to be an American as there are in the Thanksgiving celebration. I mean really, Christmas is almost entirely man made and, at the least mistreated, but Thanksgiving ~ com'on!.... Thanksgiving is the antithesis of Christmas. It is in its original spirit and celebration, depending on what you believe, the act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for life, fate or God's or the grand wheel of life's favors and mercies. For all the inner gratitude we feel for our blessings and kindnesses received, the celebration of Thankfulness, the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the apotheosis of our following that impulse. Victor Hugo said, " To give thanks in solitu...