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FW: Happy New Year (2012)
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December 27, 2011
FW: 8 Easy Hanukkah Holiday Ideas
Kid-Friendly Dreidel Garland
Dress the staircase with a colorful dreidel garland – a kid-friendly craft the family will enjoy making together. You’ll need scrapbooking paper, pencils, scissors, stencils and glue. String shapes on clear craft or fishing line and tie ends onto a staircase banister. The garland also adds a festive holiday touch to decorative shelves or the mantel.
Festival of Lights Invitations
Scrapbooking paper is the perfect medium to create Star of David cards or dinner invitations. Fold blue paper in half. Trim to size using scissors or a paper cutter. Cut two additional pieces of paper (dark blue and white) to layer on the front cover. Punch the corners of the dark blue paper with a decorative puncher; trim the edges of the white paper with edger scissors. Using glue stick and positioning to allow space for text, adhere a Star of David, cut from plain paper, to the dark blue paper. Glue dark blue paper to white paper; glue white paper to front cover. Add glitter, sequins or other embellishments. Add text with a glitter gel pen.
Festive Paper Menorah Tablecloth
The buffet table is elegantly topped with sheer linen and embellished with a paper menorah. To make the menorah, download this pattern and cut coordinating pieces of paper to add dimension and color. Attach the menorah to the linen fabric with scrapbook glue-dots. Winter daylight passes through the gauzy fabric, revealing a silhouette effect.
Chocolate Gelt Name Cards
Replace traditional place cards with white salt cellars. Fill each dip with gelt coins and place a name sticker on the front side to direct guests to their seats at the dinner table.
Colorful Paper Dreidel
Cream-colored dinner plates offer quiet relief for colorful paper dreidels. To make, cut and trim scrapbook paper, then decorate the design with strips of patterned paper. Number the back of each dreidel with a number that corresponds to a small token gift for the evening.
Quick and Easy Potato Latke (Makes 9 latkes)
Ingredients
- 1 (30-ounce) bag unflavored, frozen shredded potatoes
- 1 cup finely diced Vidalia or Texas sweet onions
- 2 eggs, beaten (use as much as needed, mixture may not require 2 whole eggs)
- salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
- 2 to 3 tablespoons flour or matzo meal
- vegetable oil for frying
- sour cream, for topping
Directions
Defrost grated potatoes in a medium-size bowl. Immediately add onion, eggs, salt, pepper and flour. Mixture should be thick and hold together when pressed.
Meanwhile, pour about 3/4 inch oil into a heavy-bottomed frying pan. Heat slowly until oil reaches approximately 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with multiple layers of paper towels and preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
To check the temperature of the oil, make a test pancake. Be careful not to spatter oil. Place about 2 tablespoons of potato mixture in the palm of your hand and form into a 2-1/2 – to 3-inch-wide and 1/2- to 3/4-inch-thick pancake — similar to a hamburger patty — and place carefully into oil. The first side should be golden brown in about 3 minutes. Turn carefully and fry other side. If pancake browns faster than 3 minutes per side, reduce the oil’s temperature. If pancake takes more than 3 minutes per side to brown, increase oil’s temperature. Repeat with remaining potato mixture.
Place pancakes on paper towels. If not serving immediately, place pancakes on paper towel-lined pan and keep warm in a preheated oven for up to 1 hour. Serve with room temperature sour cream and applesauce.
Star of David Cupcakes
Round out your celebration with an easy, delicious dessert. Nestle cupcakes in unique serving vessels like julep cups or pewter drinking glasses. Ice each with blue frosting. To make easy edible star embellishments, melt white chocolate and spoon into a sandwich bag — with the tip of one corner cut — and pipe the star shape on top of each cupcake.
Celebrating with Jelly Donuts
Store-bought jelly donuts are easily heated in the oven and tossed in fine sugar for a final flourish. Serve immediately for instant applause.
Great food, beautiful decorations and place settings, and treasured guests add up to a special Hanukkah celebration — one that honors the significance of the holiday and helps create lasting memories for all.
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November 22, 2011
FW: 50 Thanksgiving Quotes (Part 2)
- A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
- Ah! on Thanksgiving day/ When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, / And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. / What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier
- All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth
- An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
- And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor
- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year, we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times. We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things. ~Millie Stamm
- But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; / Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! ~Margaret Junkin Preston
- But whether we have less or more, / Always thank we God therefor. ~Author Unknown
- Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey – until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly
- Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: / Peace in the hearts of all men living, / peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ~Joseph Auslander
- Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after. ~Charles Kingsley
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
- For a Christian thanksgiving, we must give thanks. ~Unknown
- For each new morning with its light, / For rest and shelter of the night, / For health and food, for love and friends, /For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For flowers that bloom about our feet; / For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; / For song of bird, and hum of bee; / For all things fair we hear or see, / Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o’er life’s sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason
- For what I give, not what I take, / For battle, not for victory, / My prayer of thanks I make. ~Odell Shepard
- For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis
- Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying
- Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb
- God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ ~William A. Ward
- God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton
- Got no check books, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin
- Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. ~Jacqueline Winspear
- Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. ~Charles E. Jefferson
- Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie
- Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November
- He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. ~Charron
- He who thanks but with the lips / Thanks but in part; / The full, the true Thanksgiving / Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd
- Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, / And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton
- Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel. ~Author Unknown
- How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality, thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. ~Sir John Templeton
- I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, drunkenness or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption inhibits our frail blood. ~William Shakespeare
- I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the ‘history’ I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America’s traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it’s a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans
- I love Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
- If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. ~Frank A. Clark
- If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross
- If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
- If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that? ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
- In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke
- It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron
- Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt
- Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. ~John Henry Jowett
- Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand / That soils my land, / And giv’st me for my bushel sowne / Twice ten for one. / All this, and better, Thou dost send / Me, to this end, / That I should render, for my part, / A thankful heart. ~Robert Herrick
- May your stuffing be tasty / May your turkey plump, / May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. / May your yams be delicious / And your pies take the prize, / And may your Thanksgiving dinner / Stay off your thighs! ~Author Unknown
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November 21, 2011
FW: 50 Thanksgiving Quotes (Part 1)
- No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~Ambrose of Milan
- No longer forward nor behind / I look in hope or fear; / But, grateful, take the good I find, / The best of now and here. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
- None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
- Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser
- Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca
- O Lord that lends me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~William Shakespeare
- On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan
- On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime. ~Author Unknown
- One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude. ~E. J. Conrad
- Our rural ancestors, with little blest, / Patient of labour when the end was rest,/Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, / With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope
- Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer
- Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. ~Henry Melville
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets much as he deserves. ~Henry Ward Beecher
- Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~Charles Dickens
- Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare
- So once in every year we throng/Upon a day apart,/To praise the Lord with feast and song/In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman
- Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks
- Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin
- Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell
- Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for – annually, not oftener – if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
- Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser
- Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson
- Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown
- Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O’Rourke
- Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seed time and harvest, the ripe product of the year, and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker
- Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner
- Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron
- Thanksgiving-day, I fear, / If one the solemn truth must touch, / Is celebrated, not so much / To thank the Lord for blessing o’er, / As for the sake of getting more! ~Will Carleton
- The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
- The thing I’m most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown
- The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher
- The very fact that a man is thankful implies Someone to be thankful to. ~John Baillie
- There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry
- This is the finest measure of thanksgiving: a thankfulness that springs from love. ~William C. Skeath
- Thou hast given so much to me, / Give one thing more, – a grateful heart; / Not thankful when it pleaseth me, / As if Thy blessings had spare days, / But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~George Herbert
- To hear someone say ‘Happy Turkey Day’ makes me sad because they have nothing to be thankful for and no one to whom to be thankful. ~Robert Flatt
- To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner
- True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. ~George R. Hendrick
- Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
- We are so taken up with the affairs of the present that we don’t have time to give thanks for blessings of the past. ~John A. Broadus
- We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
- We never approach God without cause for gratitude. Thankfulness, a duty and delight greatly prominent in the Bible, is the declarative mood of gratitude – a bright fire in a master force in soul-building, the greatest tonic faith has. Be ye thankful. ~Robert G. Leethe
- We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. ~Harry A. Ironside
- What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ~Hare
- What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck
- When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning
- You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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November 11, 2011
FW: What Do You Stand For?
For all Veterans! Happy Veteran’s day.
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September 5, 2011
FW: The History of Labor Day
Happy Labor Day 2011! In a series of short clips, The History Channel takes a look at the origins of Labor Day, changing methods of manufacturing and legislative gains made by labor unions.
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July 4, 2011
FW: Happy 4th of July America
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings
Freedom’s natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
~Florence A. Jones
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler
Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. ~Adlai Stevenson
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood
It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. ~Author Unknown
Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton
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July 2, 2011
FW: Happy 2nd of July!
While danger was gathering round New York, and its inhabitants were in mute suspense and fearful anticipations, the General Congress at Philadelphia was discussing, with closed doors, what John Adams pronounced, “The greatest question ever debated in America, and as great as ever was or will be debated among men.” The result was, a resolution passed unanimously on the 2nd of July – “that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
“The 2nd of July,” adds the same patriot statesman, “will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forth forevermore.”
The glorious event has, indeed, given rise to an annual jubilee – but not on the day designated by Adams. The FOURTH of July is the day of national rejoicing, for on that day the “Declaration of Independence,” that solemn and sublime document, was adopted.
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June 3, 2011
FW: Happy National Doughnut Day
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April 24, 2011
FW: All We Need to Know We Learned From the Easter Bunny!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
Volker Kraft decorates a tree with some 9,200 Easter eggs at the garden of Christa and Volker Kraft, in Saalfeld, eastern Germany. The Kraft family have decorated their tree with Easter eggs for more than 40-years during the Easter time.
All We Need to Know
We Learned From the Easter Bunny!
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.
There’s no such thing as too much candy.
All work and no play can make you a basket case.
A cute tail attracts a lot of attention.
Everyone is entitled to a bad “hare” day.
Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.
Some body parts should be floppy.
Keep your paws off of other people’s jelly beans.
Good things come in small, sugar coated packages.
The grass is always greener in someone else’s basket.
To show your true colors, you have to come out of the shell.
The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.
May the joy of the season fill your heart.
AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
Happy Easter!