Today is the 30th annual International Coming Out Day. This celebration started in 1988 as a way to raise awareness of the LGBT community and civil rights movement.
If you haven't yet, join us. We need you.
Sculpture by Lazar-G
Showing posts with label 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017. Show all posts
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Happy International Coming Out Day 2018
Today is the 30th annual International Coming Out Day. This celebration started in 1988 as a way to raise awareness of the LGBT community and civil rights movement.
If you haven't yet, join us. We need you.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? 2017
The sublime songbird Ella sings the ultimate version of this lovely song..."What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
I hope whatever you do, you have fun.
I hope whatever you do, you have fun.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Happy Winter Solstice 2017!
Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere. Welcome back Sol Invictus!
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The Last Day of Autumn 2017
Say goodbye to autumn. Tomorrow, the sun begins its long struggle back to us...
Friday, December 8, 2017
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Sunday, December 3, 2017
BEAUTY: Painting For Winter--Snowscapes For Winter 2017
Top to bottom: Winter Light by William Hays; Moonlight Lead by William Hays; Rockport in Winter by Aldro Thompson Hibbard ca. 1940; Trees In Winter - Snow Shadows by George Hawley Hallowell ca. 1910; three snowy landscapes by watercolorist Yan Nascimbene (previously here)
Friday, December 1, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Thanks, Jesus 2017
As we eat our Thanksgiving meal, let us thank not an imaginary figure in the sky but those who are TRULY responsible for bringing our food to our tables, through their numbingly long days of low-wage, backbreaking work.
Happy Thanksgiving 2017
In these very trying times in the United States, I'd like to address all my followers and regular readers of "Oh, By The Way:" on this holiday of gratitude, let's give thanks to all the things we still have in our lives, the things that make us good, strong, honorable, and loving human beings. Let's give thanks to the people who bring light and calm and love to our lives and to the world. Because we are basically leaderless and because of a small faction of people who wish to bring ugliness and darkness to our country, let's give thanks for the actions and goodwill in our lives whether done by others or ourselves that strengthen the fabric of humanism and the choices to unite, protect, and find value in this existence. Hold dear the things that we still have left and live up to the ideals we are grateful for. Let us find value in ourselves and others and express this gratitude in our intentions, deeds, and words. Let us counteract the current dark tone with this gratitude for life and living. Let's be grateful for the value of human experience and know that their darkness cannot take that away.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Bonne Fête de La Toussaint 2017
Aujourd'hui est le jour de La Toussaint en France.
Today is La Toussaint in France, a national holiday. Although Toussaint is a combination of the word tous ("all" in French) and saint, meaning "All Saint's Day," it is also "All Soul's Day." La Toussaint is closely related, in intent and spirit, to the DÃa de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration in Latin cultures. It is a day to remember, celebrate, and honor departed loved ones and ancestors.
In France, the general population are not very religious, but this Catholic celebration has become a secular national holiday. People visit cemeteries to have picnics and to tend to the graves of family members and decorate them with chrysanthemums, a flower symbolizing death (a symbol shared with Day of the Dead); generally, the French do not use this flower for any other purpose.
La Toussaint by Emile Friant (1863-1932)
Today is La Toussaint in France, a national holiday. Although Toussaint is a combination of the word tous ("all" in French) and saint, meaning "All Saint's Day," it is also "All Soul's Day." La Toussaint is closely related, in intent and spirit, to the DÃa de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration in Latin cultures. It is a day to remember, celebrate, and honor departed loved ones and ancestors.
In France, the general population are not very religious, but this Catholic celebration has become a secular national holiday. People visit cemeteries to have picnics and to tend to the graves of family members and decorate them with chrysanthemums, a flower symbolizing death (a symbol shared with Day of the Dead); generally, the French do not use this flower for any other purpose.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Happy International Coming Out Day 2017
Today is the 29th annual International Coming Out Day. This celebration started in 1988 as a way to raise awareness of the LGBT community and civil rights movement.
If you haven't yet, join us. We need you.
Sculpture by Lazar-G
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