Thanksgiving Dinner

Rachel Ray's herb-basted turkey. Green beans. Mashed sweet potatoes with lime and peanut butter. Sourdough bread. Seven-layer salad, made by a daughter from her mother's recipe - first time and well-done! Cornbread stuffing. Cranberry-apple surprise.

Four generations around the table. Missing the truly gone, and a phone call from the merely missing. Kids chasing peas around their salad plate and crinkling noses at new smells. The old stories. The new faces. A cat under a couch. Everyone employed (or retired) and in good health, some with promotions this year, too.

Thanksgiving Day. Hope yours was warm and wonderful, too.