Once more, people will sit down to a feast and, once more, they will be tongue-tied. But you are smart business leaders. Your families and friends look to you to be wise and profound. At the very least they hope you will be entertaining with your stories and insights.

Of course, you didn't ask for the pressure of being the sage of the group, so I am here to help you.

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Below are some little shared facts, poems and blessings that will make you look clever and pithy. Your audience will leave knowing that you did your part to make this Thanksgiving a joyous and profound holiday.

Just select any and all from the list, memorize them and blurt them out at an appropriate time so all can enjoy. Please accept my most sincere thanks to all of you for supporting my column this year.

Thanksgiving Historical Facts
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States.
Sarah Josepha Hale, an American magazine editor, persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also the author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition was not started by Macy's. In 1924, the annual Thanksgiving parade, originally started by Louis Bamberger in Newark, New Jersey at the Bamberger's store, was transferred to New York by Macy's.
In 1939, President Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgiving would take place on November 23rd, hoping to stimulate economic growth and extend the Christmas shopping season.
Congress passed a law on December 26, 1941, ensuring that all Americans would celebrate a unified Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November every year.

Thanksgiving Sayings
"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweeps through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"--Henry Ward Beecher
"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."--Edward Sandford Martin
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."--Charles Dickens
"We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."--Ritual chant

Thanksgiving Poems
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

May our stuffing be tasty
May our turkey plump,
May our potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May our yams be delicious
And our pies take the prize,
And may our Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off our thighs!
- Anonymous

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers 

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