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I’m thankful for …

Having Furman Bisher as a decades-long guest for Thanksgiving dinner, a morning visitor delivered to our doorstep to remind us that, as William Faulkner wrote, “You always wear out life long before you wear out the possibilities of living.”

Bisher’s Thanksgiving Day column is a yearly reminder of life’s daily pleasures and endless possibilities.

I intrude on the master’s turf respectfully acknowledging a need to pay franchise royalties.

Freedom and independence, that earned and that given.

The acquisition of material goods, beyond those vital to my family’s well-being, have never been a reason to get up in the morning.

Newspapers were. They are instruments capable of informing, and thereby empowering, a free people to make choices — choices that make the lives of individuals, and therefore their families and communities, better and stronger.

A free press matters. It’s worth waking up for. My gift from the Cox family was the freedom to argue …