Festivus is a secular holiday, normally celebrated on December 23rd. It is mainly meant as an alternative to the pressures and commercializtion of the Christmas season. However, it has also become a day to celebrate the ever-lasting comedy of the 1990s television show Seinfeld.
Enjoy this secular high-holy day.
This is your two-week warning ’til Christmas Day. That means 13 shopping days left. If you are ordering on Amazon you had better get to clicking and shipping.
It is December once again. This time of family, friends and festivities comes around only one time a year. Let’s see what it holds for us all. Enjoy the month my friends. Get ready for a new year ahead.
This is your it’s two months until Christmas warning. But most of you are already celebrating the holiday. Be good and all that jazz.
Today is a day set apart to honor the contributions of those who work to build our communities. It takes skilled and talented people to make the world work and they should be celebrated.
Usually Labor Day is a day of rest and gathering with family and friends. For me it’s another day of being on the job which is alright because I’m grateful to be able to work and make the world a better place.
Thanks to all who are laboring each day to do great things. It’s appreciated good people.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.
Now it’s a national holiday in the United States. Let this be a time for African-Americans who were oppressed and enslaved throughout time celebrate. The struggle for freedom in many places is still real and the fight continues.
To all my Jewish and other friends celebrating Passover may this be a time of family, faith and friendship.
“Shalom!
Wishing you…
Peace, Good times,
Good health
and Happiness…
on Passover & always!”
Kwanzaa is a secular festival observed by many African Americans from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.
To all my friends celebrating may this be a day of peace, celebrations and love. May all humanity have the spirit of this day.
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