Patrick Garry News Today

As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty."

How can you best use your holiday? For starters, you might consider avoiding politics altogether.

Let's consider this unique American holiday, what science says about gratitude, and how celebrating Thanksgiving can improve your life.

As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: “Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty.”

Whenever I have acted out of fear or anger, I have made mistakes—sometimes serious mistakes. Whenever I have embraced gratitude as a guiding principle of life, I have found joy and reward. Maybe the same might be said for the conservative movement. The only thing produced by anger and fear in the present is more fuel for anger and fear in the future.

And that’s the first step toward losing our civilization.

The media does not enjoy an exalted position in public opinion. Polls continue to show an eroding confidence in the American media. Without question, the media deserves much of the mistrust directed toward it. However, just as the media has become more divisive and biased in one respect, it has also acquired a certain positive trait. In one respect, the current media resembles the eighteenth-century press that reflected and energized American democracy.

The great face mask conflict has been raging for nearly two years. It shows no signs of weakening or disappearing. Instead, it has become the most intense point of division in America.

Ending the expectation for adults to work erases human dignity.

The Democratic Party, once seen as the party of working people, has evolved into a party that considers work to be an inconvenient burden.