The Works Gives Thanks

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This is a very special (day before) Thanksgiving edition of The Works.

After my wife and I braved the great Seattle ice-wall of 2010 to reach the airport -- passing wrecked cars and reliving "The Road" every step of the way -- I started thinking about the holiday. Not "the holidays," you ding-bat; the humble pilgrims are now some of America's finest blue-bloods, which means they make money off Christmas and have no reason to lobby for a celebration unique to their tradition.

Old money isn't a culture, it's a state of mind. Still, considering all the trouble some of us take to make sure Thanksgiving gets done right each year, it's a little strange to me that there are no good Thanksgiving songs. Or chants. Or madrigals. Or anything joyous, rousing, repetitive, and yet ruminative, that small to medium-large groups can trot out while the turkey is bleeding to death in the backyard.

 

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