Article: Thanksgiving is most manageable of holidays.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Leo Sandon

This column is a thanksgiving for Thanksgiving, a paean to the one holiday that retains much of its integrity and possibility of authentic observance. Thanksgiving has been neither totally commodified nor completely absorbed into a long weekend about boats, spectator sports and other recreational indulgences.

Thanksgiving is still manageable. Exhaustion does not threaten to overtake us as we race the countdown to its arrival. While the scale of observance is simple, Thanksgiving's meanings are rich and multifaceted: as a national holy day; as a link with our pastoral past; as an event largely characterized by family gatherings; and, ...

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