Thanksgiving traditions

Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you to everyone who visits, reads and comments here. Thanks, also, to the linkers, sharers, likers and up-voters.

And thanks, again, to everyone who chipped in via that donate button to help me and the ‘vixen through a scary time back in September. She’s back to full health — which is probably close to the top of my personal Things I’m Grateful For list this Thanksgiving.

But listing all the things one is grateful for is one of my least favorite Thanksgiving traditions (right up there with pretending that pumpkin pie is a viable alternative to apple). So here are some Thanksgiving traditions I do cherish, in the hopes that you enjoy them too:

• Les Nessman, reporting live for WKRP in Cincinnati:

• “Alice’s Restaurant,” by Arlo Guthrie

• “A Thanksgiving Prayer,” by William S. Burroughs

• Gov. Palin pardons turkey as others are slaughtered on camera.

• Wednesday Addams‘ Inglorious Thanksgiving Unchained.

And one more, which I was reminded of by Jason Pitzl-Waters, who shared this quote from Meister Eckhart: “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” Here’s the only prayer ever said in John Patrick Shanley’s Joe vs. the Volcano: