By george wesley dannells on Mar 22, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
From: Northwest BahaiLibraryPresident Obama mentions the Baha’i Faith in his Naw Ruz message 2011:
By george wesley dannells on Mar 20, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
In a little-discussed shift in recent years, the NFL has moved away from depicting its games in military terms. … [T]he NFL no longer endorses using military terminology to describe its contests. …
“It’s a matter of common sense,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. …
The same is true at NFL Films, an arm of the league that perpetuated for decades the image of football as controlled warfare by producing movies glorifying the game’s violence with phrases like “linebacker search and destroy.” In recent years the company’s president, Steve Sabol, ordered all allusions to war be removed from its new films.
“I don’t think you will ever see those references coming back,” he said. “They won’t be back in our scripts, certainly not in my lifetime.”
The sport that once saw itself as the closest thing in athletics to the military no longer holds to this once-cherished notion.
“We’re not going to fight no war, man,” Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Nick Eason said during pregame festivities this past week before his team’s clash tonight with the Arizona Cardinals. A direct contrast to Bernie Parrish, who played cornerback for the Cleveland Browns in the 1960s and said in a hotel lobby here: “We wanted to kill each other. It was mortal combat. We were warriors.”
No one in the NFL is quite certain when the notion changed.
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By george wesley dannells on Mar 19, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
The unbelievers and the faithless have set their minds on four things: first, the shedding of blood; second, the burning of books; third, the shunning of the followers of other religions; fourth, the extermination of other communities and groups. (Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 91)
As we gather together at the above table of haft seen to usher in the Baha’i New Year; Naw-Ruz, we like to include the seven Sh (YARAN of IRAN) keeping them in our prayers. We think of them as our haft sheen or haft shir (seven lions of the divine courage and love).
By george wesley dannells on Mar 19, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.
By george wesley dannells on Mar 19, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
By george wesley dannells on Mar 19, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
The original feed store and garden supply business, which was about 2,400 square feet, was owned and run by the Stroh family for more than six decades. The store has been a favorite of Gig Harbor gardeners and horse lovers for generations.
The Stroh family sold the business to Wilco last year, but still owns the land. Wilco will be the sole, long-term tenant of the property.
Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/mar/06/new-wilco-store-sprouting-next-strohs-gh/#ixzz1H5W4DiyZ
By george wesley dannells on Mar 18, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
"With every sacrifice that is made, with every forward step that is taken along the toilsome and long road they are destined to tread, with every victory dearly and laboriously won by the champions, … a measure of blessing from on high will undoubtedly be vouchsafed…" – Shoghi Effendi
By george wesley dannells on Mar 18, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
From:
Marc
Subject: Prayers for Japan
Here is a devotional program for those suffering in Japan… Love, Marc & Farnoosh
“Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. " -Baha'u'llah
We awaken to thoughts of Japan and we go to sleep with thoughts of Japan. -gw
By george wesley dannells on Mar 17, 2011 in All categories | Comments Off
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