Monday, November 24, 2008
Deb Price
Despite challenges, savor this year's blessings

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081124/OPINION03/811240323

Late November is the perfect time to express appreciation for the bounty that will provide comfort throughout the coming season, when spring isn't even a glimmer in Mother Nature's eye. Lincoln's upbeat declaration is a reminder Thanksgiving isn't the time for financial-ledger accounting of the year's results: If spring was too soggy and the apples had worms, that's a discussion for another day.

Thanksgiving is a time to focus on the year's blessings. And those of us who are gay or gay-friendly have plenty to savor:

Ummm, hate to correct Lincoln and all, but for five days in July of 1863, just after Gettyburg, there was a small matter in NYC that possibly would lead one to believe that harmony wasn't necessarily the order of the day except in "the theatres of military conflict."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots

OK, I seem to have taken that quaalude afterall!! 

Nichole