ArisAngel Cuello
English 101
Essay Assignment # 1 “Thanksgiving Day Miracle” The leaves on the trees seemed to follow a pattern and they changed colors, greens turned to yellows, yellows to oranges, oranges to browns and so on. Diverse and multicolored, the leaves then proceeded to take their journey ending plunge from the tips of the branches to the cold hard ground, which lay motionless underneath them. Hot humid breathes of nature seemed to increase in pace and magnitude but simultaneously decreased in temperature, as the gusts of wind became cooler to the touch, signaling the end of summer and the return of fall. The roads and sidewalks filled with chaos by the thousands of individual-minded leaves, resembling the room of a dirty child. As the presence of the great big star settled in the west and the sky lit with orange and yellow, the scenery was set, it was beautifully and uniquely painted in harmony, like the vivid colors of a Dr. Seuss illustration. It was that time of year again, my mothers’ favorite holiday – last Thanksgiving. As my mothers’ precious holiday arrived, so did the baggage, the stress and chaos of preparing. There was so much to do but so little time. It seemed as if every year there would be a preplanned agenda to conquer the stress of the holidays. However, every year that so called “plan” would fail. Every member of my family knew what to do, just sit there and wait patiently for the inevitable. Sitting there like a stenographer in a court room, my mother made list after list of errands. “Damn it,” murmured my sister, as she was the first victim of my mothers’ dispersal of errands. She was in charge of running to the store and picking up the rest of the groceries my mother needed to complete the dinner that she had planned. As my father seen the exchange of the grocery list, he without hesitation, snuck