A time for gratitude

We have so much to be thankful for, including the fact that 2020 is now in the rearview mirror and we have a brand-new year ahead of us. I’m hoping that 2021 will be a year filled with gratitude and thanksgiving.

Speaking of ingratitude, Shakespeare lamented the pain of ungrateful children when he said, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude, thou marble-headed fiend.”

A New York paper devoted many pages over several weeks to printing letters of children to Santa Claus. Several weeks after Christmas, an editorial was printed addressing ingratitude, sta...