MEMBER BLOG TAG: economy
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:35AM | | | | The Power of Thanks | Tags: Thanksgiving, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Roosevelt, Obama, economy, Depression
| | | I’m up early on Thanksgiving morning before the house awakes. It is still dark outside. Our dogs—Max, a German shepherd, and Nala, a golden retriever—look up at me to see if it is really time to start the day. They know the routine. Max follows me downstairs to go outside to get the morning papers—The Washington Post dropped near the porch, The New York Times left on the sidewalk, then a trip to the kitchen to pick up dog bones before we return upstairs where I get on an exercise bike to read the papers and the dogs settle on the floor beside me to chew their bones.
But this morning I’m up too early; the papers have not yet arrived. The house, which... | | | | | |
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