Big Frank is heading out for Thanksgiving. He's going to Denver to stay with his brother Dan and his family. His daughter, Gina, is coming from Oregon. His mother and step-father are coming from North Dakota. So, all-in-all a kind of mini family reunion. That's what Thanksgiving is all about.
Here's a couple of quotations that Big Frank will be mulling over as he flies. He's been reading the two volumes of Joseph Brodsky's essays: "Less Than One" and "On Greaf and Reason". These are the two quotations that Brodsky puts at the beginning of these books, taken from two of Brodsky's favorite poets:
"Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses,
force us to have second thoughts, free from the fetters of Self."
---- W. H. Auden
"And the heart doesn't die when one thinks it should."
---- Czeslaw Milosz
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