Saturday, December 25, 2004
( 7:49 AM )
Best Holiday Wishes
To all of you, my blogosphere friends - I want to wish you the happiest of holidays. No matter if you celebrate a holiday this time of year or not, I do, and so I'm taking a moment to say how thankful I am for you and for this medium of expression and for the chance for people to come together and "talk" and express themselves. We are maintaining each other's sanity and that is definitely a community-building project!
I'm delighted to be able to be home with my family this coming week and will be spending every moment that I can with my husband and son - and praying for a nice snowstorm to keep school out just a little longer!
A blessed holiday season to everyone, may the New Year bring joy, fun-filled adventures and blessings. Most of all, may it bring peace across the world, to every human being who has yet to experience it. May we all do what we can to bring justice to the world and work for peace. That would indeed be a good year.
Blessings from the Mama! Happy holidays!!
"An Owie to One
is an Owie to All"
- as modeled by
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--Che Guevara
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-F. Nietzche
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
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-US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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