Christmas Eve

The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/24/2017 - 8:33am

Gifts and giving

When we get there we'll discover all the gifts we've been given to share
have been with us since life's beginning and we never noticed they were there.
From Swimming to the Other Side · Pat Humphries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpvwXEHD2Bc (4 min)

It is a gift to recognize gifts...in yourself, in others, in our world. I hope that, like me, you see this site, this community, as a gift. A gift to free expression, an opportunity for honest fact based conversation, a forum for learning, and basically a nice group of folks trying to understand an insane world.

Those that use their talents to help others, they are the saints and angels among us. They are the ones that give rise to myths of Santa Claus, Saint Wenceslas, and the like. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas ) But there are people who 'guide from the side' without much interjection. Consider JtC and his approach to running C99... with one of his rare essays recently urging us toward more meaningful, kinder conversation and interaction. You are a gift, Brother. Those who have the where with all might consider sending JtC (and the C99 site) a holiday gift. Mine is in the mail (really it is). Regardless of our abilities to make financial donations, let's all drink a cup of kindness together for the holidays and into the New Year.

What would Joseph say? And what did Jesus think about Joseph?

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 12/23/2017 - 2:54pm

Oh you folks, all this talk about imperialism, Bernie Sanders being too much of an imperialist according to Big Al. Big Al being a whimp according to Orlbucfan and Ta-Nehisi Coates too much of a white supremacy fetishizer according to Dr. Cornel West and a neoliberal apologist according to Meteor Man and Dr.

WE NEVER FORGET: December 24, 1913 - The Italian Hall Massacre, Calumet, Michigan

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:58pm
Up above the strikers stood Annie Clemenc,
girl leader of the miners.
She was not the usual militant Annie Clemenc.
She was saying a prayer for the children.

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Christmas Eve December 24, 2015

This morning I woke up thinking about the Italian Hall Massacre. I thought of Annie Clemenc and I remembered the miners and their families who preserved through the great Michigan Copper Strike of 1913-14.

Let us always honor their sacrifice and NEVER FORGET:

Italian Hall Memorial Christmas Eve.png
Italian Hall Memorial, Calumet, Michigan

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