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EndNotes archive for Nov. 22, 2012

THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 2012

For those who avoid meat but still want to celebrate Thanksgiving, you can decorate fruit into a turkey-shaped display.   (Courtesy photo)

Lobsters, seals and swans, oh, my!

It wasn’t all just talking turkey – or eating only turkey at the first Thanksgiving. Did you know? The first Thanksgiving was a three-day harvest feast Governor William Bradford sent four men to hunt birds for the feast while the Wampanoag contributed five deer The…

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Comet Lulin is seen in the early morning sky during this half-hour time exposure photographed with a 300 mm telephoto lens on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in Stedman, N.C. The lens tracked the comet during the exposure. This rendered background stars as short streaks. On Monday at 10:43 p.m. EST, Lulin will be 38 million miles from Earth, the closest it will ever get, according to Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object program. (Johnny Horne / AP)

Listen to this beautiful thank you

And so on this day of thanks, if you are looking for inspiration for words to say around the table, to one another, please consider the magnificent poem "Listen" by W.S. Merwin. It's not sentimental. It's not sweet. It's not Hallmarky. Rather, he expresses gratitude,…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.