Although I’m not particularly religious, this, from Connecticut Governor Wilbur Cross’s 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation to the citizens of that state (and thanks to The New York Times) is timeless wisdom:
“Time out of mind,” he began, “at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year.”
I hope it’s emphatically the case that most of you, dear readers of Adam Smith, Esq., find yourselves seated amongst the bounty of the season, physical, emotional, intellectual and, yes, spiritual.
