Once a year the world as we know it stops and we gather together with family to visit and talk and laugh, and of course to eat! We bring out the vintage cookbooks and traditional family recipes scribbled on stained paper. We cook and bake the old fashioned way, (except for the deep-fried turkey of course!).
We remember Thanksgivings of the past. We catch up on news since last year, the fate of the local courthouse, the latest on TV (grandkids: "Who's O.J.?"), we talk about what the kids have been up to. We miss those who didn't make the long trip, but know that they are making their own memories on this day. We delight in the grandkids, remembering ourselves at that age, visiting relatives and playing with cousins seldom seen.
The end of a good day is accented by the Christmas lights coming on at dusk. Then too soon it is over, the world starts turning again, back to life and work, but with a refreshed and renewed spirit.
