Happy Thanksgiving

Another Thanksgiving is upon us, a day for schoolboy football, family gatherings, and not much else to do other than enjoy a great dinner that reminds us how fortunate we truly are.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, tracing its roots back almost 400 years to the Pilgrims, long before there was even a thought of a United States of America.

Thanksgiving is a day of no pressure when no one expects anything of us (other than for the person doing all the cooking!). It lacks the commercialism, religiosity, solemnity, and political overtones of all of our other national holidays. It is the only day on the calendar when we have no obligations other than to spend the day with those who mean the most to us.

It is a day for relaxation, reflection, and inevitably — at least for some of us — a post-dinner nap or early night of sleep. In a time when so many of us are connected 24/7 to some instrument of communication, it truly is a relief to have a day when we can just shut it all off.

We wish all of our readers a happy — and restful — Thanksgiving.