Here's a piece I wrote a few years back about today's holiday. It still holds true so I send it out to you Simple Live-ers!

Thanks Giving for Friends

Give me these cinnamon-scented days

with their fall of golden light

and ginger leaves drifting down.

Grant me these velvet starry nights

while I nest and pull high the comforter.


Oh these Thanksgiving days

give me pause to think of you

my spicy friends of all the seasons

we spiral dancers of moon and sun.


Pile on the gravy and the dressing

Pass me the sweet and the mashed.

Pies of pumpkin, apple and pecan

Oh my! Fill my plate full and high.


For you who nourish all my days

I whisper words of gratitude

And especially now, when I feel

so filled with home-cooked love.


--Patti Frank

copyright 2008