Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

10 comments:

Diane Smith said...

I'm thankful that we were all able to get together again this year and that the music continues (with or without bass and drums!).

Gary and Susan Mullen said...

I'm thankful for being able to re-connect with all of my Paradox Family and in the final analysis it really is all about family.
We wish you all a Happy Turkey Day
Hugs...Gary & Susan

Unknown said...

So much to be grateful for...good friends and family. Wish we all didn't live so far from each other, we could share leftovers together....go ahead, over eat today. Tomorrow, turkey soup....

Unknown said...

Great picture Diane, we have wild turkeys, never eaten one though.

Rand Launer said...

Me too.
Thank to you all for being a friend.
I must say, I'm very thankful for a great number
of things this year.
(including Old Joe and the Door Dulcimer!)

I have my nap spot picked out and now
we're gonna start cooking.
Happy Thanksgiving Paradoxicals,
one and all.

Rik Elswit said...

Woke up this morning to find my best friend already up and ready with a joke. She lives to crack me up.

We are comfortable, healthy, have enough to eat, and we have friends. Thank you for being among them.

One of my other friends is a gifted writer and columnist for the SF Chronicle. And every Thanksgiving he comes up with the words I'd have written if I had his talent. This is Jon Carroll on Thanksgiving. I hope it adds to the joy of yours.

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/

Diane Smith said...

With such heartfelt comments here, let me add that I'm particularly thankful that I could spend this past year not once but twice with my adopted family and -- when you think about it -- my oldest friends, even though many of us had lost touch over some of those years. If the Dirt Band has been together for 45 years, then so have most of us here!

You have no idea how much joy it brings me to see us all together again -- and still arguing about music -- after all these years. This last reunion with everyone so relaxed and comfortable with one another felt like my crazy vision had been realized. I'm counting the days until 2011!

That turkey by the way is thankful that yet again I chose to leave him to his own devices. For some reason, I still enjoy turkey once a year at Thanksgiving but can never seem to bring myself to actually buy and cook one.

Rik Elswit said...

Norma was raised in New Jersey, and I was raised in New England,and she's in the kitchen roasting the garlic pepper crab right now. We've gone totally California, and if we're going to celebrate, why not crab, garlic noodles, Acme bread and a bit of white wine? In the words of Jason Mraz,

Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Takin it easy

And, I might add, Norma and I are thinking of you.

Diane Smith said...

That sounds fantastic, Rik. You'll have to share the recipe next time! There's something about roasting lots of different foods that says Thanksgiving to me, although this year Hannah had such a bumper crop of carrots I also made an amazing carrot ginger soup.

Hannah and I go with seafood at Christmas -- usually cioppino made with whatever I can find fresh at the good food store and sometimes homemade or at least bakery bread.

Thanks for your kind thoughts. I'm doing fine! I lived to tell about it.

Chris said...

Happy Thanksgiving to all!