Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. And while the holiday recedes into the past, I will take time now to recollect the happy moments that will warm my chestnuts in the following years.<\/p>\n
We had a small celebration that was marked by a lot of arduous kitchen prep work. Not since I worked for minimum wage in a restaurant as a dishwasher and prep-guy have I worked so hard in a kitchen. My mother-in-law came down form Vermont so that she and my wife could cook a Thanksgiving Day dinner together. It was fun, and it was nice that mother and daughter could spend that time together. I peeled potatoes.<\/p>\n
The holidays have really changed for me in the past several years. My mother and sister died two years ago and there is a real “homemaking” gap in the lives of us surviving family members.<\/p>\n
All this has reminded me of Clearances<\/em>, one of many magnificent poems by Seamus Heaney. In the poem, Heaney is at his mother’s death-bed and remembers how they never were so close as when they used to peel potatoes together in the kitchen.<\/p>\n We all have so much to be thankful for.<\/p>\n Copyright 2012 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. And while the holiday recedes into the past, I will take time now to recollect the happy moments that will warm my chestnuts in the following years. We had a small celebration that was … Continue reading