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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>These accessible odes are thought-provoking. Check out “The Coronavirus Prayer” in particular.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martha</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:newsletters@theatlantic.com">The Atlantic</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, November 25, 2020 6:40 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Odes for Thanksgiving 2020</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C;display:none'>Thaw that turkey, and your soul. We hope these odes to the small pleasures in life will at least bring you back to room temperature. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=700 style='width:525.0pt;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:24.0pt .25in 24.0pt .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=238 height=176 style='width:2.4791in;height:1.8333in' id="_x0000_i1037" src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/daily-header2x.png" alt="The Daily"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in .25in .25in .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 0in 0in 0in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><h4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:#8592A4;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal'>November 25, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></h4></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in .25in .25in .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td width=74 style='width:55.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="www_theatlantic_com_author_car"></a><a 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href="http://links.e.theatlantic.com/ctt?ms=MjQxNTU2MjAS1&kn=9&r=NjQzOTE0Njk3MTM0S0&b=0&j=MTg2MTc4Mzg5OQS2&mt=1&rt=0"><span style='mso-bookmark:www_theatlantic_com_author_car'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#21272C'>Caroline Mimbs Nyce</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:www_theatlantic_com_author_car'></span></a><span style='color:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal><span class=c-authorbio><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#37424E'>Senior associate editor</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in .25in .25in .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #EF3B24 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:24.4pt;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#39434B;letter-spacing:.25pt'>Odes for Thanksgiving 2020<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>Flip to the last page of any <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Atlantic</span></em> print magazine, and you’ll find a humble ode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>The source of all this goodwill is James Parker, a lyrical writer (and poet) turned monthly gratitude correspondent. In honor of Thanksgiving, I asked James to write an original holiday-themed ode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=e-p style='margin:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>Below, you’ll find his new meditation on returning to consciousness, as well as a collection of odes from yesteryear. Happy thanking.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in .25in .25in .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'>An ode to regaining consciousness</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>This one I never managed to write for the magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>A couple of decades ago, at a time when I was a night-shift baker, a freelance journalist, and the father of an infant son—frantic, in other words—I found myself fainting rather a lot. Or rather, I found myself on the bathroom floor rather a lot, wondering what had just happened. It was then that I discovered the pleasures of coming round.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>Fainting is a disgusting experience: Everything slips, tips, darkens, crowding toward the zero point, and you barely know what’s going on. Coming round, however, is leisurely and delicious. Plenty of time to appreciate everything—to savor everything. How cool and solid the floor under your cheek. How generous and unequivocal the clear light of the bathroom. How wonderfully, steadily actual the base of the toilet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=e-p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.75pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#21272C'>This world of things: how it holds us and supports us. Birds in their nest, stars in their socket, humans blinking gently as their faculties are restored. How at home we really are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:none;border-top:solid #D3DCE6 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;border-style:unset'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in .25in .25in .25in;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in .25in 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