Arizona Thanksgiving 2025

She surveyed the buffet, the selection abundant and varied in color, texture, and fragrance. Craving food, those choices offered not only nutrition but also gastronomic delights that she would experience as physical relief from hunger. Satiated, she would be empowered as savior of the species, savior of the natural world, savior of universal creation. She would eat her fill producing offspring to continue the cycle. She was not conscious of this preeminent role; she was working on instinct.

The buffet was easy to find, the aroma and heat of foodstuff drawing her to the feast. Once there, it was a matter of choice: dark or light, warm of course, moist not dry, lean or fatty. She dashed from one offering to the next, filling herself until she had tripled her weight. She prepared to leave when one more course tempted her. Settled and ready to partake, an unexpected blow sent her into eternal darkness.

Darn mosquito!