Recognize the richness of our lives… and Be Thankful…
For the gift of each brand new day and the chance to make a difference… For the beauty all around us, we are privileged to behold …For loved ones and for special friends. Today give thanks for all life’s many blessings. Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with and Happiness.
“You should expect to be treated the same way you care for others — what you give is what you receive.”
Kindness is a fundamental part of the human condition which binds us. Being kind towards others says I recognize that I am no more important than you are; kindnesses say that I value you; and show respect.
An act of kindness, having tolerance and using good manners helps bridge the boundaries of race, religion, politics, gender and cultures.
World Kindness Day is a day set aside to focus on the positive power kindness and to recognize acts of kindness in your community and ask that an act of kindness be done.
World Kindness Day is 13 November and is observed in many countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Italy, India, Singapore and the U.K. and in the USA. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement a coalition of Non-governmental organizations NGOs. (NGOs are legally constituted corporations created by natural or legal people that operate independently from any form of government.)
Schools across the globe are now celebrating World Kindness Day and work with local NGOs such as Life Vest Inside.
Today on World Kindness Day, let’s commit to teaching our children the power kindness by using “good manners” with everyone all the time.
Good manners are little kindnesses that show respect and are invaluable. Good manners are not old-fashioned. Using good manners will get you noticed and in a good way. Good manners can be bring wonderful friendships and partnerships. Good manners help you to focus your attention on others.
I think we need more respect in this world, and using good manners is easy and free.
Promote good manners with these time-honored rules for human inter action. These basic rules will help your child begin to build a repertoire of good manners and habits that promote kindness and will stand the test of time.
Everyone knows the importance of these simple courtesies, but it seems today to have a big follow-through issue. It takes time to train the brain, and it takes consistent repetition and consistent modeling from adults to properly teach these rules to our children.
Remember the children are watching.
Quotes about Kindness
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
–Albert Einstein
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
–Lin Yutang
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
–Margaret Cho
Sources and References:
Non-governmental organizations – The NGO Network
Life Vest Inside
Random Acts of Kindness.org with a suggestion list of hundreds of acts of kindness.
They Did Their Share
On Veteran’s Day we honor
Soldiers who protect our nation.
For their service as our warriors,
They deserve our admiration.
Some of them were drafted;
Some were volunteers;
For some it was just yesterday;
For some it’s been many years;
Let every veteran be honored;
What they did, we can’t repay.
We owe so much to them,
Who kept us safe from terror,
So when we see a uniform,
Let’s say “thank you” to every wearer.
By Joanna Fuchs
Veterans Day is an official United States federal holiday that is observed on November 11 each year. It honors all military people, also known as veterans, who have served in U.S. armed services.
Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, are celebrated in other parts of the world, and like Veterans Day mark the anniversary of the end of World War I which formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
Veterans Day is not to be confused with Armistice Day, Remembrance Day or Memorial Day (celebrated in the month of May in the U.S.) which honor those who have died in conflicts of war.
World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the “Father of Veterans Day.”
Armistice Day is commemorated to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France. The armistice also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location it was signed – was the agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. The date, November 11, was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed.
Most countries changed the name Armistice Day to Remembrance Day, after world War II, to honor veterans who have died in action, in that and all subsequent conflicts of war.
Armistice Day remains the name of the holiday in France, Belgium and new Zealand; and it has been a statutory holiday in Serbia since 2012. The United States chose All Veterans Day which was later shortened to Veterans Day.
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in commonwealth countries is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918.
The red remembrance poppy has used since 1920 to commemorate soldiers who have died in war and has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem “In Flanders Fields”.
These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red color an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.
It is especially prominent in the UK. In the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday, they are distributed by The Royal British Legion in return for donations to their “Poppy Appeal”, which supports all current and former British military personnel.
Flanders is one of the regions located in the north-western part of present-day Belgium and adjacent parts of France and the Netherlands. Today Flanders normally refers to the Dutch speaking northern portion of Belgium.
“In Flanders Fields” is a war poem, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier. It is one of the most popular and most quoted poems from World War I.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By John McCrae
Image: A Canadian war bonds poster.
In 1918, American YWCA worker Moina Michael, inspired by the poem, published a poem of her own called “We Shall Keep the Faith”. In tribute to McCrae’s poem, she vowed to always wear a red poppy as a symbol of remembrance for those who served in the war.
We Shall Keep the Faith
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
In Flanders Fields we fought
By Moina Michael
The practice of decorating the graves of soldiers, originated in the years immediately following the American Civil War.
Field of Valor in Covina, CA
Photo Gallery of Veterans Day Posters from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other Veterans Day images.
Take a moment and remember to give special thanks to all the people who have served and fought to keep the freedoms we have in the United States of America and around the globe today. Peace!
Read a Book Day is today.
Reading is a great lifetime hobby. It offers so many positive attributes.
It’s relaxing and therapeutic. It’s educational. Its entertaining. And, a whole lot of other good things, too.
If you have young children, or elderly people in your home, take the time to read a book to them today.
It is a wonderful time to bond with them and it creates pleasant, lasting memories.
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Month:National Blueberry Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month National Ice Cream Month Week Event: Week 2 Nude Recreation Week Special and Wacky Days: 1st – International Joke Day |
Monthly, Weekly and Daily Holidays and Special Events for June
Month:
Aquarium Month
Gay Pride Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
Rose Month
PTSD Month
Weekly Events:
Week 1 – Fishing Week
Week 2 – Email Week
Week 3 – National Nursing Assistants Week
Daily Events:
1st – Flip a Coin Day
2nd – National Bubba Day
4th – Hug Your Cat Day
5th – World Environment Day
6th – National Gardening Exercise Day
6th – National Yo-Yo Day
7th – National Doughnut Day – always the first Friday in June
8th – Best Friends Day
9th – Donald Duck Day
10th – Iced Tea Day
11th – Hug Holiday
12th – Red Rose Day
13th – Sewing Machine Day
14th – Flag Day
15th – National Hollerin’ Contest Day – always the third Saturday in June
15th – Smile Power Day
16th – Father’s Day – always the third Sunday in June
18th – Go Fishing Day
18th – International Panic Day
21st – First Day of Summer – Summer Solstice
23rd – National Columnists Day
23rd – Take Your Dog to Work Day
24th – Swim a Lap Day
25th – Log Cabin Day
25th – National Catfish Day
26th – Beautician’s Day
26th – Forgiveness Day
27th – Sun Glasses Day
28th – Paul Bunyan Day
29th – Camera Day
29th – Hug Holiday
30th – Meteor Day
You can go here to see more Special or Wacky Events
Memorial Day…is a time for thanks and remembrance.
A day to honor America’s bravest sons and daughters who answered the call to defend their nation and, in doing so, made the greatest sacrifice of all.
And in these days of unrest filled with grave uncertainty, let’s not forget the price they paid to keep our country free.
Grant them, O Lord, Eternal peace.
Thank You & God Bless all the members of our military, their family’s and the U.S.A!
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