<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0023 Thanksgiving</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Thanks for yesterday evening – <br>I really enjoyed myself…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a profound statement, is<br>that hackneyed phrase! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Just an impromptu dinner party’, <br>they invited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A modest house that shines<br>with their mutual and family love –<br>his craftsmanship in every detail, <br>her sense of beauty at every point, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like the vased flowers<br>which seemed to be growing<br>out of a spring of love, openly rejoicing<br>that they were giving their life to us<br>in the name of love; calling to us to be here, and now, <br>to enjoy every moment with them..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the perfectly served simple meal; and<br>the company, the guests: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the very recently bereaved<br>who was the unspoken focus<br>of all our attentive care; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the teacher, always smiling and alert, <br>so that we feel we know him well– yet<br>really know so little; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the man whose career<br>has always seemed a series<br>of ineffectual starts, who in one more disastrous trough<br>bought a laptop, found himself<br>as a children’s writer; now<br>there’s just no stopping him; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the others; and over all, <br>a light, a warmth, a steady conversation<br>which never mentioned love, <br>yet was rich with it…<br>and life, a sheer delight; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so that I enjoyed the self in myself, <br>knew myself more in that; so</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thanks for yesterday evening; <br>I really enjoyed myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460480" data-title="0023 Thanksgiving de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘Thanks for yesterday evening – I really enjoyed myself…’ What a profound statement, is that hackneyed phrase! ‘Just an impromptu dinner party’, they invited. A modest house that shines with their mutual and family love – his c..."></div> </div> </div>

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