On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator (1799) |
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist (1832) |
John D. Barrow, Scientist (1952) |
Brian Baumgartner, Actor (1972) |
Kim Delaney, Actress (1961) |
Taisen Deshimaru, Philosopher (1914) |
Rahm Emanuel, Politician (1959) |
Harry Essex, Writer (1910) |
Anna Faris, Actress (1976) |
John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1849) |
William Cartwright, Dramatist (1643) |
Dorothy Day, Activist (1980) |
Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1991) |
Dan Flavin, Sculptor (1996) |
George Harrison, Musician (2001) |
Thomas Hewitt Key, Writer (1875) |