Despite the many and perplexing challenges of our times, this American holiday of Thanksgiving presents much for which we should be grateful.
It's been interesting today to have received a number of messages from wonderful friends in Paris we met during our years in residence there, among whom we shared expatriates' versions of this special day -- a suggestion that there may be a universality to the search for communal expressions of thanks.
We always found it difficult to explicate the legend of Thanksgiving to the French. So we were grateful for the version supplied by New York Times humor columnist Art Buchwald -- first appearing in the International Herald Tribune in 1953, and an annual staple for many years thereafter.
Among my own blessings, I owe especial gratitude to the good minds at the IHT who gave me the opportunity to write the column in its business section that was the predecessor to this blog, But as neither Buchwald himself nor the IHT remain among the living and available to be thanked, I can do no better than offer this link to his timeless work -- and wish you all a very hearty chuckle, joy of the holiday, and more peace among us all.
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