"I can read a calendar, and the season's usual logistic and chore requirements were all right there where I could see them, but knowing that a favorite holiday is coming and actually feeling it are different things. For Thanksgiving, which I love dearly, that realization manifests as a sort of exhausted gratitude, or maybe just grateful exhaustion. The way Thanksgiving season plays out, which is generally as a procession of low, short days stacking up across gray weeks dwindling fast into winter,"
"When I finally felt it last weekend, on a half-desperate long-weekend trip to Connecticut with my wife, it was as an absence. We were walking up a trail next to a waterfall on a day when the sun never really came out, without any other real plan in mind beyond a dinner reservation five or so hours later, and enjoying ourselves in doing all that, but the difference was that we were just doing that."
Thanksgiving appears as a particular exhausted gratitude during a procession of short, gray days. A Connecticut long weekend with a spouse produced an absence of noise: work, anxiety, and obligation diminished while walking beside a waterfall and holding only a distant dinner plan. A seasonal podcast episode adopts a sunnier, sillier, and shorter pre-holiday tone. The episode covers walking the Drew Magary Heritage Trail, an unexpected encounter with Rob Zombie's paintings at a gallery, conversations about the thrill and mystery of art, Connecticut romantic histories, and lessons drawn from adolescence.
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