Hope you had a lovely holiday celebration

Saying "merry Christmas" may not be appropriate for some folks who read the blog.

Some of you celebrate Hanukkah, Diwali, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Festivus, and 100 other religious or non-secular festivities that I am far too lazy to look up at the moment. So, to you I say "Season's Greetings," whatever those may be.

Here's to racial and religious tolerance and understanding; to peace on Earth; and, to a marvelous time of sharing with your family and friends. Neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, new acquaintances and old school chums, co-worker to co-worker, prince to pauper, party leader to the corporate nameless - let's all clasp hands and defiantly challenge the future by letting go of past grievances. Let's strive to understand one another and stop demanding that the 'other guy' needs to make all the concessions and change.

The world is too populated with far more differences than similarities to try and make everyone the same. The vastness and beauty in the diversity of skin tones, languages, nationalities, cultures, sexual orientation and passions has been on the earth for nearly as long as it has turned.

Shouldn't humanity start with being humane?

You, with the gun blindly following the first guy with a gun, stop bullying the oppressed. They aren't hurting you, and they aren't a threat. Don't teach your children to hate simply because you can - teach them respect for others and instill a sense of curiosity and patience. Nobody has to convert, the strong just have to allow others to be who they are. Don't let your fears override your common sence and decency. Don't let your rulers allow bullying and torture to be the way a nation operates.

And you, civic and political leaders, stop analyzing and researching and identifying problems we already know exist and start doing something about them. It's taken you thirty years to realize that thirty years ago you (or your predecessors) were right, and that everything [we] did to the earth is now coming back to haunt our fate and shape our bleak environmental future.

Don't forget, we weren't the first people on the planet, but at the rate we're going, we could very well be the last.

Season's Greetings. Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Humans...and the Creatures of the World.

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