Joyeux Jour de Thanksgiving

Just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful day, even if you're far from loved ones, and to remind you to check out the fun design Google came up with for their home page in honor of the day.

Also, in honor of the bilingual and multicultural nature this blog often takes and my own multicultural ethnicity, I offer up this humorous accounting and attempted explanation of this unusual and unique American holiday. Enjoy!!


(Oh, yes, I checked, their is not an exact translation for the holiday we celebrate today. There is a rather interesting debate about it, however, if you are interested and can read some French. ^.^)

La Beauté

A few weekends ago I saw this at a conference I attended with some of the girls from church. It's amazing. It's a great thing to see someone finally putting this information where girls can readily see it and then to help them comprehend its implications. I just have to ask myself why it's taken this long for someone to stand up and say, "Hey, this isn't right. We've been hurting not only women but our society with this, and it's got to change." Watch this video and you'll see what I mean.



Shocking, isn't it?? You'll have to watch it a few times to catch everything that they did to "edit" the image; there's just so many changes.

For more information and other videos about this issue, visit the Dove website. You'll wish you knew about this sooner.


I apologize if you cannot see it well. You can see it better one of two ways: 1) If you watch it on YouTube you can click on an option that will enlarge the video to full screen (bottom right corner of the little "tv" box); 2) Watch the original video on the Dove website is very clear, though a bit smaller.