Gratefulness as self-care, California wildfire survivors in Cowboys halftime show: Your Thanksgiving roundup

November 22,  2018 By Carla Solórzano and Dom DiFurio Good morning! Happy Thanksgiving from our newsroom to your living room. Check your inbox Thursday evening for a special roundup of [Black Friday deals](. Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌤️ Weather: Mostly sunny and pleasant. High of 61. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. (Keith Negley/Special Contributor) thanksgiving How being grateful makes us healthier Health and Fitness Columnist Leslie Barker: Gratitude tends to be, at its most basic, two words: Thank you. It can also be a list (the colors of autumn, extra-hot coffee, a purring cat, a laughing baby). It can be a hand-written letter, a soul-lifting hug, a heartfelt look encompassing a myriad of unvoiced emotions. Brief or detailed, spoken or shown, some bit of gratitude is possible in every moment of every day. But because it's embodied in the very word of the holiday we celebrate this week, [what better time than Thanksgiving to focus on all it does for us -- spiritually, emotionally, physically](. Please excuse me: A recent study determined that [some travelers cut their Thanksgiving dinner short when spending it in a place that voted differently]( than where they lived. Sick of turkey? Here are [49 restaurants and bars that are open on Thanksgiving Day]( in North Texas. Bucking the trend: Stores inside Galleria Dallas, under new management this year, [will not be open on Thanksgiving](. Editorial: It’s Thanksgiving. [Instead of turkey, we're serving up grouse](. And: Learn how to [get free trips and rideshare discounts on Thanksgiving and Black Friday]( in D-FW. dallas cowboys Cowboys fan who lost home in California wildfire will participate in Thanksgiving halftime show The California family who saved their tickets to the Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game from the wildfire that destroyed their home won't even need them. [The team is going to see to it that they get all the way down to the sidelines](, and 11-year-old Jaelyn Morgan will get even closer to the action during halftime. She was surprised with the invitation to become an honorary Cowboys cheerleader Wednesday when team owner Jerry Jones and daughter Charlotte Jones Anderson joined the California family's tour of AT&T Stadium. "We can't realize the tragedy you've experienced," Jones told the girl and her father, Dale Morgan. "We're so glad you're safe." Fire destroyed their home and possessions in Paradise, Calif., but Dale Morgan refused to let the devastation stop him and his daughter from living out a “dream trip.” And: Here's our [SportsDay experts' predictions for Cowboys-Redskins](: Will Dallas take control of the NFC East on Thanksgiving? 3 key matchups for Cowboys-Redskins: [Can Ezekiel Elliott, Amari Cooper feast on Thanksgiving](? John F. Kennedy illustration by Staff Artist Michael Hogue. jfk assassination: 55th anniversary A portrait of Dallas' darkest day: How the JFK assassination changed our city [Fifty-five years later, it's still the darkest stain on our city's history](. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, after a breakfast in Fort Worth and a short flight to Love Field, President John F. Kennedy traveled through downtown on his way to a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart. His motorcade had reached Dealey Plaza and was driving past the Texas School Book Depository at 12:30 p.m. when he was assassinated. He was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital just over an hour later. This collage portrait was created from the contents of the pages of a November 29, 1963 issue of LIFE Magazine. Also: [A moment in 1963 changed a father’s life](, a family’s life — and the world. EDITORS' PICKS - Fashion: This Dallas artist [is making your Chanel, Louis Vuitton handbag even more you](. - Watchdog: A Texas law banning surcharges for credit card payments was overturned. [Now you’ll pay more](. - Scam: Irving [warns residents of scam]( involving fake water testing. - Crime: [After fifth break-in](, an Old East Dallas bakery intends to 'just keep baking.' Finally... City Hall bought valuable North Dallas land for a library that won't be built. Now the city wants to sell at a loss City Columnist Robert Wilonsky: Just in time for Black Friday, here's a [deep-discounted deal on a prime slice of North Dallas real estate](. It's along Forest Lane just east of the Dallas North Tollway, on the outskirts of the Melshire Estates neighborhood where Oncor planned to clear-cut half a mile's worth of trees until, late last week, residents stopped the chop. The Korean Young Nak Presbyterian Church used to sit here, but it was reincarnated in Plano a few back, after excavators were sicced on the house of worship and its remains chucked in a landfill. Bonus: This empty parcel sits halfway between Liberty Burger and Torchy's Tacos — and it's two miles from Valley View Center! Anyone hoping to build a mini-mart or town homes or apartments here is out of luck. This 150,702-square-feet slice of cracked concrete patched with brown grass is zoned single-family residential, and the neighbors will never let it be anything else — buyer, beware. But it could be a steal: According to the Dallas City Council's voting agenda for next week's meeting, the land could go for around $1.8 million at auction, which is about $800,000 less than the current owner paid. And by current owner, I mean the city of Dallas. You and you and you and me, suckers all. [Read Wilonsky's full column here]( 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). 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