A very pleasant sense of calm settles over our burg on many holidays and today is no exception even with the drizzle and the flight delays at SFO.  My early jaunt to the new Safeway (pause for thanks) showed I wasn't alone in needing that one last ingredient for the bird's stuffing.  This year's bird (pause for thanks) is from Sonoma and is a free-range guy from a ranch that has been growing them since 1949. 

As we read in Ken Garcia's column in the SF examiner, there will be a lot of folks dining on birds at the Lion's Club today.  We're lucky to have a gathering place that is central and affordable (pause for thanks).  It's one of the beating hearts of B'game.

So as we gather with family (pause again) and celebrate Thanksgiving, don't forget to walk off the meal with a stroll through your neighborhood (last pause) to enjoy the foliage.  Happy T-day from the Voice.