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It was an excellent Thanksgiving. There was buttered bread and cheese and crackers and mushroom frittata and tomato soup and cranberry sorbet and pepper tuille and smoked turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and buttered asparagus and green bean casserole and cranberry chutney and cornbread dressing and grits and pumpkin and buttered carrots and bread and butter and two kinds of pie and caramel-nut twists with peppermint cream. And white wine and red wine and coffee and tisanes.

I'm, perhaps, a little tipsy and very relaxed.

I am thankful for many things. Indeed, my life is so embarrassingly good that I feel a little awkward about it, and resolve every year to give more to charity, because I'm not sure I deserve life to be as good to me as it is.

But it is, and I thank God or the gods or the powers that be that it is, and hope it will continue to be so, and hope that my unusual and undeserved good fortune will expand outward to the people I love, and the people I don't know.

Gods all bless, everyone, and have a happy and productive and positive 2010.