Light Rafts for Flagging Spirits: Thanks Given

On grief, grace, and other things that show up with the turkey and cranberry sauce

As many of us gather around tables and in kitchens, at restaurants and in AirBnBs, in the company of strangers, family (biological and ‘logical,’ as Armistead Maupin puts it); family who feel like strangers, or if we’re on our own, by choice or circumstance, on this day we in the United States call Thanksgiving, a lot of emotions are bound to present th…