Thanksgiving is here – and we do need a respite from pressing issues.

Given this latest COVID outbreak, the recent international agreement on climate change, our lingering drought and a second La Niña winter, it’s important to remember that Thanksgiving began with and continues to be a day of sharing precious food and joy in precarious times.

Who would have thought Colorado’s hospitals would still be overwhelmed this last week of November, with COVID patients bedded in emergency rooms and h...