This year, Thanksgiving falls on my birthday. I am certainly thankful to still be here. It is truly painful to realize how many people we have lost to this pandemic, here in the US and worldwide. Here I gratefully celebrate my continuing existence by singing an aria from an early work by one of my heroes, George Frideric Handel. The song urges us to, in effect, gather rosebuds while we may.
Thanksgiving 2020 is going to be a much-reduced affair for most of us, but here is a little reminder of how it has been in years gone by.
Kindness, kindness, kindness—this is the important trait so absent from our current president and his allies and defenders. Please let kindness be one of the most important requirements you bring to your decisions as you vote this time—at every level. We need competent people, yes, but we need their warmth and kindness, too.