A powerful holiday snowstorm barreled toward New York City and much of the Eastern Seaboard yesterday, setting off an avalanche of preparations big and small beneath, well, sunny skies.
OK, Powerful Holiday Parent.
However, Thanksgiving is about more than just having the day off and Black Friday and holiday shopping, Thanksgiving is a really powerful holiday and one that can be the best day of the year, if you just take the time to really enjoy the best Thanksgiving has to offer.
But have you realized how powerful the holiday spirit can be when it comes to finding your next job?
There had already been other rich and powerful foreigners building holiday homes – whopping great crenellated ones – and when our local hero raised his flag, it all kicked off.
Some performers exert such a powerful presence — Billie Holiday, Sinatra, Elvis — that they seem to become the authors of songs that were actually the work of schlumpy men in the Brill Building.
The fact that his son recently bumped into Lord Mandelson, Britain's powerful first secretary, on holiday in Corfu, has fuelled speculation about a stitch-up.
These themes are especially prominent in the novels she has written about the Walsh sisters from Dublin: Watermelon, about Claire Walsh's desertion by her husband on the day she gives birth to their daughter; and her best book, the powerful, painful Rachel's Holiday, about Rachel Walsh's drug overdose and stint at the Cloisters, an Irish rehab centre.
Emergency officials in Tennessee worried that powerful winds could turn holiday yard decorations into projectiles, the same way gusts can fling patio furniture in springtime storms, said Marty Clements, director of the Madison County Emergency Management Agency in Jackson, the state's largest city between Memphis and Nashville.
My first sightings parsnips and celeriac, along with pumpkins, mums and gourds, the last 3 being prominent in my childhood Sukkah, reminded me of the immanent change in season, just the way a holiday evokes powerful associations with time of year and experiences.
It's powerful to see the holiday begin to make sense to our first year students and first-time attendees as they see the representatives of student groups -- their peers and role models -- outline the ways that the principle informs both their group's purpose on campus and their own personal story.
