Thanksgiving Toast 2017
Emmett Stone: For 23. November, 2017; begun 21. October, 2017. I’d like to make a toast Get up and put bread in the toaster; sit down and say nothing Seriously though, the tradition of Thanksgiving is to reflect on all of the things for which we are thankful. I would be remiss not to be thankful for the aspects of my life which are ordinarily little-considered but that are perhaps the most influential: I am healthy; I can afford an education; I can afford time to make this food; I have a family who at least mostly love me, and I have dear friends—here at the table and elsewhere around the world—who’ve gifted my life with support, laughs, thoughtful discussion, and every other benefit of company. And I—lucky as I am for that—have not only those blessings but also, starting this year for the first time: near-independence; I am not wholly free of the my family, the university, nor at least two governments, but for the first time in my life I feel tha...