Thursday, December 23, 2010

To My Progressively Minded Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2011 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.


To All The Rest:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!























See ya in a couple days.

9 comments:

Brian said...

Merry Christmas to you, too. And happy and successful healing...

kr said...

LOL ;)!!

A blessed Christmas to you and yours :).

PS since I was sending out the kids' school photos to all the relatives and #4 is too young to have one, I filled in with the one you took of him coming down the dirt pile in the park--thanks again for those photos :).

tully said...

Merry Christmas, Gino.

Incidentally, I really appreciate people's considerateness when it comes to including those of other creeds in their greetings. I also appreciate the warmth of a 'Merry Christmas'. What ruffles my feathers is when people use these greetings to make a statement, to be self-righteous. I got this chain-e-mail in which a guy was "making a point of saying 'Merry Christmas' to defy political correctness."

tully said...

Oh, didn't mean to be pointed there. I know that Gino is Gino, and you are being humorous (and funny).

Gino said...

i got a text from a muslim freind i havent spoken to in over a month, wishing me a Merry Christmas. :)

tully said...

Did you wish him a Merry Christmas?
(:

tully said...

Excuse me: Did you wish him or her a Merry Christmas?

Gino said...

yes,
and he also recieved a 'happy holidays' not too long when he he had his holy thing going on.

tully said...

Smiles!