Celebritus Festivus

And Happy Holidays... BANNED...
I say Merry Christmas, you say Celebritus Festivus, Joyous Kwanza Umoja Nia Imani, Happy Hanukkah חֲנֻכָּה‎, Great Awe to the Solstice and all of the ways all our different peoples share the joy and warmth of family and friendship during this season. If I say Merry Christmas to a person- I am sharing the warmth and love of the season as I was taught from childhood. If your response is Merry Christmas then we connect with our shared joy of the Christmas season. If you respond with Kwanza, Hanukkah or whatever brings you joy I not only get to share the warmth of this holiday season but I also get to share and celebrate the diversity of your life and celebration with you. And yes I believe that our differences might be an even larger blessing. But if you or I are forced or encouraged to engage the ”Happy Holidays” default or God forbid “tis the Season !!!” we neuter and generify (is that a word) these celebrations- the very thing that I think the motive of some to try and protect- “diversity.”
“Happy Holidays” in place of what you truly celebrate, just White Labels the whole holiday and leaves nothing left but the economic-consumer-buy-buy-wrap-ripapart-throwaway attitude that we all just simply hate- remember the moment you hear your first Xmas song or tinsel wrapped kiosk in !?OCTOBER?! Really MAYBE it was even September…
So Celebritus Festivus to you all and may some of the joy you all have given me this year be returned to you and yours by the smiles on the faces of everyone you meet.
Much Love.

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the Power of Laughter

I heard that the power of a giggle can light a stadium for a day and that when two people laugh a galaxy is born from nothing,
and that a smile can change the universe!

It is my guess that we're all doing pretty good !!!

the rush of time.

Thinking of Jamie takes me way back. It just clashes with what all that I see around me. Aren't we all still so young and invincible? I mean aren't we?
Sad.
Be well my friends- today- maybe just this moment- is all we're sure of...

What freedom does demcracy ever offer that can't be taken away by a HONEST? ballot?

DONNOT get me started. I am soooooooo not feeling my "UP WITH PEOPLE" mantras today!!!
Tehran Maine DC Kyoto Accord White House GOP Clinton ROP Global Warming Puppy Cancer Swine not Swine FLU H1N1 H2O World Oil OPEC Deepak Vanilla Ice
OctoMom Coldplay Boy George Mel Gibson Bruno Barack Bush Bushes Conspiracy 911 9/11 9/12 Harry Truman Glenn Beck Exxon valdez Lone Ranger
Tonto not tonto John and Kate Saucer Boy NPH Thousand Points of Light Ebola Ecoli eFax eFacts eFile Darfur Iraq Afgans Poppy's Opium Meth Methhead Two-Weekers Unliscensed Births Soma De-evolution .

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !!! Ronald Reagan 1987.

Someone somewhere behind that wall was praying for freedom twenty years ago. Prayers were answered and the walls came down. Today I am reminded the walls we are still pressed against. Today we can choose to break down the walls of social, economic and political inequality. Tear down the paradigms of ignorance. November 9th is just ahead...