Season's Greetings, 2021

12/22/2021

Best wishes to all the nice people who read My Little Therapy Website, and those who add their comments, making this a community of sorts.

We give thanks for our blessings in the middle of all this. We know some people who are not well right now, and we wish for health.

I am planning a little holiday pause, no words, no pictures, no opinions, just wishes for peace and health for all.
GV

(Painting by Marianne Vecsey; card crafted by David Vecsey.)

Willie Weinbaum

12/23/2021 09:58:54 am

Beautiful painting and sentiments! Here’s to safe, happy, healthy and better times ahead for the Vecseys and all who are near and dear, near and far.

Jim Henneman link

12/23/2021 12:04:42 pm

Thank you George and the same to you and your family. I love your enthusiasm....and writing talent...for this "therapy" website. I know you'll never lose the talent and pray you never lose the enthusiasm. Stay healthy!

Hillel

12/23/2021 12:52:23 pm

Merry Christmas and happy new year, George.

Ina Lee Selden

12/23/2021 01:32:47 pm

Dear G,
Thanks for bringing so much of the outside world into our home in 2021. We drop everything to read your posts, and are particularly touched when you write so lovingly of Marianne. Stay warm, stay healthy, stay optimistic. This isn't one that will not be over when the fat lady sings, but it will be over. We look forward to the next time we can be together.
Ina & Maury

ahron horowitz

12/23/2021 05:04:21 pm

george-happy holidays and best wishes.thank you for your oasis and to all the parched travellers who stop for a brief respite.health and happiness for your family.ahron

Phyllis Rosenthal

12/23/2021 06:48:11 pm

We wish you and Maryann and your family wonderful Christmas and a happy,healthy and normal new year🎄

Alan Rubin link

12/24/2021 10:40:54 am

Enjoy the mini-break from your website. Everyone should periodically step back and small the roses.

Sandi and I were married on Christmas Eve and are celebrating our 60th an anniversary. It seems like it was yesterday.

All the best for a happy and healthy New Year to all the loyal followers of George's blog.

Ernie and Aviva Kirchman

12/24/2021 06:18:23 pm

Dear George, Marianne and family, Much appreciation for your holiday note. Best wishes for a good year ahead, and thanks for sharing your perspectives of these times!

Edwin W Martin Jr

12/24/2021 08:09:14 pm

Peggy and send you all a wish for Happy Holidays and a better New Year. We have been blessed by visits in the last two weeks by both of our sons, Scott and Bruce and Grandson Alec, and Grandaughter Gwen, a s special others Jennifer and Fila.

Shalom, Peace.

Altenir Silva

12/26/2021 03:19:50 pm

Dear George.
Thank you very much.
Beautiful Art.
Best/Altenir

bruce

1/1/2022 12:09:16 am

dear all,

into my dotage....i was positive i'd posted something several hours ago.

happy new year to all the regulars and irregulars to george's therapy site.

let's hope 2022 is better than 2021.

and more people in the great republic get vaccinated.

bruce

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QUOTES
"Among the things that have long fascinated people about Jesus and explain his enduring appeal is his method of dialogue and teaching. "He asked a lot of questions and told a lot of stories in the form of parables. In fact, parables form about a third of Jesus’ recorded teachings. The Gospels were written decades after he died, so his questions and parables clearly left a deep impression on those who bore testimony to him....
"Some of Jesus’ questions were rhetorical; others were meant to challenge or even provoke. In some cases, Jesus used questions to parry attacks by religious authorities who set traps for him. In others, he used questions to enter more fully into the lives of others and to help people look at the state of their hearts. He asked people about their fears and their faith. Jesus used questions to free a woman caught in adultery from condemnation and to inquire whether people considered him to be the Messiah. He probed deeply into questions not many had asked before him, like “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
---(Peter Wehner, long-time White House consultant and writer, in the NYT last week about Jesus Christ’s method of teaching by asking questions.)

"Would that I could mention all the illuminating details in this biography, for example, why Wells praised Black Americans so highly, saying, 'I took a mighty liking to these gentle, human, dark-skinned people,' and 'Whatever America has to show in heroic living today, I doubt if she can show anything finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast efforts hundreds of black and colored men are making today to live blamelessly, honorably and patiently, getting by themselves what scraps of refinement, beauty and learning they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.''
-- "How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century," Charles Johnson, NYT Book Review, Nov. 19, 2021. ***".

...the monsters arrive."
"They come in a deafening, surging swarm, blasting from lawn to lawn and filling the air with the stench of gasoline and death. I would call them mechanical locusts, descending upon every patch of gold in the neighborhood the way the grasshoppers of old would arrive, in numbers so great they darkened the sky, to lay bare a cornfield in minutes. But that comparison is unfair to locusts.
"Grasshoppers belong here. Gasoline-powered leaf blowers are invaders, the most maddening of all the maddening, environment-destroying tools of the American lawn-care industry."

---The great Margaret Renkl, from Nashville, one of my favorite NYT bylines, Oct. 26, 2021.
(She describes our Long Island enclave to every decibel, every stink.)
lwww.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/opinion/leaf-blowers-california-emissions.html
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