Weather in Missoula, Montana tonight… a couple minutes ago…
7 Pearl Harbor Day
6 Chanukah lasts 8 days
12 Poinsettia Day
22 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
23 Festivus – for the rest of us!
25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Boxing Day – not on the 26th this year
31 New Year’s Eve
Union
“Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions.”
~Molly Ivins
Tom Engelhardt cuts to the chase: Corporate Press=Disinformation
Do not believe the corporate cons. They own the media who publish their lies.
The October 2015 Portland Alliance!
Vol. XXXIV, Number 10 October 2015 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/October From 2:08 a.m. until 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, October 3, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was … Continue reading
William Faulkner and life, writing, wilderness and creative arts
“I’ve heard people say, ‘If I could just stop doing this, I would be a writer.’ I don’t believe that. I think if you’re going to write you’re going to write, and nothing will stop you.”
~William Faulkner
Wisdom, Love, Joy and Dreams
Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.
Kindness
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel“
Life is fine… Enjoy. Not to worry.
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus
February 2014 ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/February
The Portland Alliance: Vol. XXXIV, Number 2 February 2014
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/February
Writing, Activism, Alternative Media, & Ceative Arts:
The Cutting Edge for Social Change & Civic-Engagement
