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This year’s Hanukkah holiday season ended not long ago. It was on the last night of Hanukkah so very long ago that the Maccabees celebrated the miracle of the oil, after taking back the Temple in ancient Israel from the Greeks, and rededicating it to its former Holy purpose. It was a last-ditched effort by [...]
“Come closer, cried the Sea… Come closer, follow me…. Let me show you what you’ll be… if you’ll only follow me…” From Water Song, by Kapito Amidst the hustle bustle of the Holiday season, whether shopping for Hanukkah or Christmas (or like me – both,) finding the time to primp and prepare your [...]
It was evening and it was morning, one day… ~Genesis 1:5 Hanukkah just began, at sundown, by Jewish tradition when you can see three stars in the sky . I have always loved the Jewish tradition that the days begin at night, when it is dark enough to see the twinkling and [...]
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ~ Marcus Arelius The story of Husayn Ali Husayn Ali was born on November 12, 1817 in Tehran, Iran, to the home [...]
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the Angels. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Early Stories Surrounding the Forget-Me-Not Nov. 10th is National Forget-Me-Not Day. One of the many stories surrounding the origin of the Forget-Me-Not name is that during the Medieval Ages, a knight picked [...]
After days and nights of it, the laughter of the children echoing up from the foothills below began to grit on him, and he had to find out why there were so many children in the wilderness. This was supposed to be a quiet place, away from it all. Slowly and deliberately, he made [...]
It was a confluence of sensation. It began with my feet: a gut-wrenching downward movement of the submarine, and a guttural, rumbling shudder. Then my eyes and ears were brought to bear, as a massive column of salt water shot down the stairs next to me, shouts from above, and the clarion call of the [...]
In commemoration of Miss American Rose Day In thousands of beauty pageants across America, she stands there, an aura around her as she tries with all of her might not to squint under the bright, hot kleig lights causing tiny beads of sweat to form on her forehead, as she focuses on holding that perfect vasoline-covered smile, [...]
Written in commemoration of Evaluate Your Life Day… “The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one’s “own” or “real” life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” ~ C. S. Lewis You’re home sick for the umpteenth [...]
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway Simon Cowell. Dick Cheney. Walter Matthau. Oscar the Grouch. Burgess Meredith. Grumpy. Bill O’Reilly. Andy Rooney. And every pet cat. There are a variety of words for them: Curmudgeons, grumps, old coots, bellyachers, faultfinders, grousers, malcontents, sourpusses, soreheads, moaners [...]