It’s just about the best holiday of the year, in my book. Family, food, family, football, family, parades. But it’s also an opportunity to express our gratitude to Almighty God from whom all blessings flow. And even in the worst of times, there is much for which to give thanks.
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.’
Viola, in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night III.4