Garrison Keillor: It's Thanksgiving. Be Happy.

President Barack Obama serves Thanksgiving dinner during "Feast with Friends" at Friendship Place homeless center, on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Washington. Friendship Place works with homeless and at-risk veterans in its Veterans First program. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)And so, once again, the feast of gratitude for the gifts of Providence -- profiteroles, procreation, Prokofiev, the profession of faith, the prospect of progress, procrastination, Proverbs, and Providence (Rhode Island ) itself, I was there last week, a very snazzy town -- and also for tragic mistakes you might’ve made and did not and here you are, basically OK , with a slab of turkey and cranberry and a gravy lake in your mashed potato . It’s a good place to be.

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