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Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Monday, November 20, 2023

ADC Reminder "Tens of millions in the US are struggling, and will go through Thanksgiving with little to no food on the dinner table..."

(Dad. Husband. National Executive Director of @ADC. Living in DC via the greatest American City, Detroit. RT =/= Endorsements. Views are my own. Washington, DC adc.org) 
 
"Reminder: Tens of millions in the US are struggling, and will go through Thanksgiving with little to no food on the dinner table. 
 
Thankfully our bought and paid for politicians in this country are doing their part to help by sending tens of billions of your tax dollars to Israel and the Ukraine. 
 
For those of you who are struggling, rest assured that the genocide happening in Gaza may not put food on your kids plates, but it does line the pockets of your elected officials and weapons producers.".
 

 
 & then from a recent video- a doctor, a Palestinian with no name but a very clear voice speaking of Palestine's children:
 
 “They give us a piece of bread and a sandwich, and they give the Israelis tanks, rockets, and warfighters... He saw his father dying, he saw his uncle martyred, he saw his house stolen, he’s living in a tent. How can we remove hatred from the hearts of these children?”

Saturday, November 23, 2013

My online comment posted 11-22-2013 RE UN secretary-general: JFK left indelible imprint on me

President Kennedy addresses Red Cross youth group at the White House on Aug. 29, 1962. Ban Ki-moon is second to the right of JFK.( Photo: Family photo)
RE: UN secretary-general: JFK left indelible imprint on me
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/11/22/ban-ki-moon-un-secretary-general-jfk/3639233/

comment i left on usatoday website

Delighted to see UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's inspiring op-ed "JFK left indelible imprint on me"...  In giving sincere thanks, and telling such a charming story, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon helps elevate an important person, but more importantly he promotes magnificent ideas and ideals. 
Annie Annab

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UN secretary-general: JFK left indelible imprint on me

Meeting the president as a youth led to my decision to choose a life of public service.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving Was Meant to Be a Fast... TIME MAGAZINE: Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was initially meant to be a fast, not a feast. The devout settlers at Plymouth Rock mostly recognized "giving of thanks" in the form of prayer and abstaining from food. But the Wampanoag Indians, who joined the pilgrims for their 3-day celebration, contributed their own harvest traditions — dancing, games and feasting — from their ancient festival, Nickommoh, meaning "to give away" or "exchange."

TIME MAGAZINE: Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day Here in America...a poem by Anne Selden Annab

Thanksgiving Day Here in America

Thanksgiving Day here in America
is the freedom to choose: The
freedom to have turkey
or tofu
The freedom to invite guests
or not
The freedom to decorate your home
however you want to-
or not
The freedom to get dressed up
or down
The freedom to watch TV
and/or listen to music
and/or sing
or internet shop
or reading a good book
and sharing a great recipe
or talk about team sports

The freedom to celebrate
home and family
and friends
counting our blessings

The freedom to have a day off
with apple or pumpkin or pecan pie
or a hike on the Appalachian trail

The freedom to sleep in
or get up early

Uniting with people we tend to like
every where- each in our own way


poem & photo copyright ©2011 Anne Selden Annab

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NOTESThe word MERITOCRACY was born in 1958. It means a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement.


Americans in 1776 embraced a view of the world in which a person's position was determined, not by birth, rank, or title, but by talent, ability, and enterprise...

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States

The Bill of Rights

The expansion of rights and liberties has been achieved over time, as people once excluded from the protections of the Constitution asserted their rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Friday, November 26, 2010

A Thanksgiving Poem.... Cornucopias by Anne Selden Annab

A Thanksgiving Poem
Cornucopias

In the Grocery store again...
How many others here
are also buying good food
for family in need
too tired or too old
or too sick
to shop

How many others
add a bag of sweets
for a visiting child

and flowers for a friend.

Making memories
as holidays tend to do

Seeing grace
saying grace
being grace
in looking for
And sharing
the best
that we can find.


poem & photo copyright ©2010 Anne Selden Annab

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgiving: Peace, Love and Puritanism

"The most far-reaching of these Puritan reforms concerned the civil law and the workings of justice. In 1648, Massachusetts became the first place in the Anglo-American world to publish a code of laws — and make it accessible to everyone. Believing that the rule of law protected against arbitrary or unjust authority, the civil courts practiced speedy justice, empowered local juries and encouraged reconciliation and restitution. Overnight, most of the cruelties of the English justice system vanished. Marriage became secularized, divorce a possibility, meetinghouses (churches) town property.

And although it’s tempting to envision the ministers as manipulating a “theocracy,” the opposite is true: they played no role in the distribution of land and were not allowed to hold political office. Nor could local congregations impose civil penalties on anyone who violated secular law. In these rules and values lay one root of the separation of church and state that eventually emerged in our society."