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Christmas Wishes For 2025

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Family History, General Comments, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Battles, Blessings, Evil, Faith, Family and Friends, Family History, Gaza, General Comments, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Human History, Human Kindness, Images, Kernels, Life And Fate, Memories, Other Blogs, Pacific Paratrooper, Philosophy, Prayers, Quotes, Time, Ukraine, Vasily Grossman, X-mas 2025 on December 25, 2025| 2 Comments »

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.

— Vasily Grossman
From his book: “Life And Fate“

Merry Christmas to all… !!


Once again, I wish I could say the world is a more peaceful and loving planet since last Christmas, but that would (still) just be the optimist in me speaking. I continue to pray for the lives and freedom of the people of Ukraine and Gaza…

I do hope it (peace and personal safety) is true for anyone reading this and your family / friends (close and extended).

Please reach out to your family and friends. Share with them the gift which really matters: your time! Make memories…

Peace and Namaste to all!!!


[A big shout-out to http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ for providing today’s image. Please visit the site if you have a chance. — kmab]

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Christmas Wishes For 2024

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Other Blogs, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Merry Christmas -- 2024, Other Blogs, Pacific Paratrooper, X-mas 2024 on December 25, 2024| 4 Comments »

Merry Christmas to all… !!


I wish I could say the world is a more peaceful and loving planet since last Christmas, but that would just be the optimist in me speaking.

I do hope it is true for anyone reading this and your family / friends (close and extended).

Please reach out to your family and friends. Share with them the gift which really matters: your time!

Peace and Namaste to all!!!


[A big shout-out to http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ for providing today’s image. Please visit the site if you have a chance. — kmab]

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Christmas Wishes For 2023

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Other Blogs, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, Gaza, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Images, Israel, Merry Christmas -- 2023, Other Blogs, Pacific Paratrooper, Palestinians, Prayers, Russia, Ukraine, X-mas 2023 on December 25, 2023| 2 Comments »

First off: Merry Christmas to all… !!

Second: Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family.

Third: Please remember in your thoughts all of the first responders and essential workers who are working each day to maintain the health and the safety of our families. We may not be in the midst of a pandemic this year, but they are still showing up for work everyday – where we need them. Police, firefighters, EMTs, health workers, PPE and vaccine manufacturers, supermarket / food-store / essential services staff, transportation (truck drivers and delivery) staff, our military defending us around the world and our civilian government employees working to keep our water, food and air clean.



Finally:
Offer up your prayers for the Israeli families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack AND for those innocent Gazans and Palestinians who are now suffering a terrible retribution for terrorist crimes they did not participate in nor support. The arc of history bends slowly, but inevitably towards justice – which will come for both sides.
Offer up your prayers for the people of Ukraine who are continuing to endure a long and difficult war against an invading Russian force. Every day you continue to fight foreign oppression brings you one day closer to the freedom you seek and deserve.

[A big shout-out to http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ for providing today’s two images. Please visit the site if you have a chance. — kmab]

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Christmas Wishes For 2022

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Other Blogs, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Images, Merry Christmas -- 2022, Other Blogs, Pacific Paratrooper, X-mas 2022 on December 25, 2022| 4 Comments »

First off: Merry Christmas to all… !!

Second: Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family.

Third: Please remember in your thoughts all of the first responders and essential workers who are working each day to maintain the health and the safety of our families. The “COVID pandemic” may be over, but they remain on the job where we need them. Police, firefighters, EMTs, health workers, PPE and vaccine manufacturers, supermarket / food-store / essential services staff, transportation (truck drivers and delivery) staff, our military defending us around the world and our civilian government employees working to keep our water, food and air clean.



Finally: Please, please, please…
Keep current on your vaccine(s) / booster shot(s).
And, to those of you traveling: drive safely (to and from wherever you roam)…

[A big shout-out to http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ for providing today’s two images. Please visit the site if you have a chance. — kmab]

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Two Views On Contentment

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Comfort, Contentment, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Addison, Mediocrity, Middle Classes, Minds, Optimism, Philosophy, Quotes on November 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

— Joseph Addison

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

— Hermann Hesse

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Christmas Wishes For 2021

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, Merry Christmas -- 2021, X-mas 2021 on December 25, 2021| 2 Comments »

First off: Merry Christmas to all… !!

Second: Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family.

Third: Please remember in your thoughts all of the first responders and essential workers who are risking their health and the safety of their families to be on the job where we need them. Police, firefighters, EMTs, health workers, PPE and vaccine manufacturers, supermarket / food-store / essential services staff, transportation (truck drivers and delivery) staff, our military defending us around the world and our civilian government employees working to keep our water, food and air clean.

Finally: Please, please, please…
Wash your hands frequently
Wear a mask when out of your home
Practice social distancing (particularly indoors), and,
Get your vaccine / booster shot(s) as soon as you are eligible.

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Blessings Larger Than Life

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Giving, Happiness, Katharine Hepburn, Life, Philosophy, Quotes on March 17, 2021| Leave a Comment »

The giver is bigger than the receiver. If you want to be large, larger than life, learn to Give. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasized because there’s always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy by acts of giving.

— Katharine Hepburn
(This quote was found on Facebook)

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Christmas Wishes For 2020

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, Merry Christmas -- 2020, X-mas 2020 on December 25, 2020| 2 Comments »

First off: Merry Christmas to all… !!

Second: Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family.

Third: Please remember in your thoughts all of the first responders and essential workers who are risking their health and the safety of their families to be on the job where we need them. Police, firefighters, EMTs, health workers, PPE and vaccine manufacturers, supermarket / food-store / essential services staff, transportation (truck drivers and delivery) staff, our military defending us around the world and our civilian government employees working to keep our water, food and air clean.

Finally: Please, please, please…
Wash your hands frequently
Wear a mask when out of your home
Practice social distancing, and,
Get your vaccine shot(s) as soon as you are eligible.

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No Fear

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Death, Evils, Fear, Philosophy, Quotes, Socrates, Wisdom on June 26, 2020| Leave a Comment »

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

― Socrates

[I do not fear death, but neither do I welcome it’s cold embrace (just in case). — kmab]

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My Thoughts About The X-mas Turkey…

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Humor, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Faith and Family, Humor, Merry Christmas -- 2019, Pizza, Quotes, Turkey, X-mas 2019, Yogi Berra on December 25, 2019| 2 Comments »

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

— Yogi Berra


[Merry Christmas to all… !! Hug everyone at your table and say a prayer of blessings for absent friends and family. — kmab]

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My Dog Scratches At The Bedroom Door

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Walking, tagged Attitude, Blessings, Dogs, Henry David Thoreau, Philosophy, Quotes, Shiva, Walking on June 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

— Henry David Thoreau

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I Hope He Has A Lot Of Room Down There

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Failures, Faith, God, Humor, Imperfections, Mahatma Gandhi, Philosophy, Successes, Talents on February 12, 2019| 3 Comments »

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Earning Your Blessings

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Dogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Sydney Jeanne Seward on July 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog.

— Sydney Jeanne Seward

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