Today, hundreds of millions of Americans will gather around the dinner table with family and friends to share food and fellowship, reunite with family members not seen for days, weeks or months, and try desperately to avoid talking about the results of this month’s election. In that way, Thanksgiving Day is a potent annual reminder that for all of our differences, the ties that unite us with our loved ones are far stronger and more important than the petty differences that can at times seem so intractable and divisive.
Here at the UW Dawg Pound, things aren’t so different.