Today is Thanksgiving Day, and here in Denver the day begins with The Turkey Trot, an early morning 4 mile run/walk sponsored by Mile High United Way. Even thought it starts in Washington Park, just a short distance from here, I have never attended in the 43 years it has been held. I guess that shows what kind of a runner I am. And as far as I am concerned, Thanksgiving is all about families getting together and enjoying each other's company. Eating turkey is traditional, but it really doesn't matter as long as you are all together. My mother Mary and father Nelson (seen back in 1957 in the photo on the left) always loved holding family dinners, and actually enjoyed putting them together and inviting everyone over.
And I know I have used the photograph on the right every year, and to be honest I am now not even 100% sure it was taken at Thanksgiving, but it shows a family gathering in the dining room of our house in the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago, probably around 1957. Regular Blog readers by now can probably recognize everyone in the photo. For the record - from left to right - they are Aunt Kitty (my Grandfather Spillard's sister), my mother Mary, my Grandmother Spillard (my mother's mother), my Grandmother Hoyt (my father's mother), me at my most charming best, and in the cage, Petie the parakeet. And so I want to wish that everyone has a nice dinner with their families tonight. Just don't talk about Donald Trump - we don't want any fistfights to break out.
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