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Click Here: With the match, $1 will provide 18 meals.
When I was asked to do a blog post for a Feeding America Blogathon a few years ago, I set my Googles to the task: first, to find out what Feeding America was, and second, to find out a little bit more about food security in America and the food stamp program, SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program).
In the late 1960s, John van Hengel, a retired businessman in Phoenix, Arizona began volunteering at a local soup kitchen, and began soliciting food donations for the kitchen. He ended up with far more food than the kitchen could use in its operations. Around this time, he spoke with one of the clients, who told him that she regularly fed her family with discarded items from the grocery store’s garbage bins. She told him that the food quality was fine, but that there should be a place where unwanted food could be stored and later accessed by people who needed it, similar to how banks store money.
Van Hengel began to actively solicit this unwanted food from grocery stores, local gardens, and nearby produce farms. His effort led to the creation of St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, the nation’s first food bank.
(I want to pause here for a minute to think about a time when a food kitchen had too much food).
The food banks became Second Harvest which in turn became Feeding America in 2008:
Feeding America is the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Our mission is to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Each year, the Feeding America network provides food to more than 37 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States, including 14 million children and nearly 3 million seniors.
Our network of more than 200 food banks serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, securing and distributing more than 3 billion pounds of food and grocery products annually. Those member food banks support approximately 61,000 local charitable agencies and 70,000 programs, which provide food directly to individuals and families in need.
But Hunger in America is more than numbers, more than just pounds of food and dollars spent. Hunger in America has a face…the faces of those who depend on food pantries to survive. They are the people in these videos.
So what is stopping Republican House Members from funding food stamps?
Food Stamp Abuuuuuuse!! (If that sounds suspiciously like Benghaziiiii and IRSssssssss and ACOOOOOOORRRRNN that’s because it is … another fabricated right-wing “scandal”).
Food Stamp abuse is a myth … but Hunger in America is not. From once-and-future-Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Want some facts? Take the Feeding America Quiz (I am sure it will stump Republicans … although it might not surprise them, which would be even sadder).
Do you want to know who benefits from food stamps and food pantries? We all do. Because when we feed the hungry we exemplify the best of our Big-D Democratic Party values – putting people first and valuing human life.
Here is another organization asking for some help, political help this time:
Jan —
Last year, 49 million Americans struggled with hunger.
Many rely on food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put healthy meals on the table.
This September, House leadership stripped $40 billion from this program, meaning — if funding isn’t restored — 3.8 million Americans will be booted off food stamps next year, and many will lose the security of knowing how they’ll feed their family.
Thanksgiving is a powerful reminder of just how cruel these budget cuts are to families in need. Now is a great time to speak out.
Add your name, and call on Speaker Boehner and House leaders to restore funding for food stamps that millions of families rely on.
This measure is not just mean spirited. It happens to be bad for the economy, too. Moody Analytics has found that nutrition assistance is one of the most effective forms of stimulus available, because the funds go right back into the economy.
Despite the talking points from the other side, you can’t ignore the fact that about half of SNAP recipients are children. Many others are veterans, the elderly, and the working poor.
Thanksgiving is a celebration of plenty, and a time to consider our friends and neighbors who aren’t as fortunate.
In that spirit, we’ve got to stand up for the millions of Americans who stand to lose access to this vital program.
Add your name, and tell House leaders to restore funding for food stamps:
P.S. — If you’d like to do more to support families in need this holiday season, please consider making a donation to Feeding America or contributing to a food drive in your community.
Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?
Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?
Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?
How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?
The Twitter Emitter
#ThanksgivingTips Be sure to yell when arguing about Obama with young, liberal relatives. First one to raise their voice wins the argument!
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College (which is exactly what it sounds like) was founded.
In 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in NYC.
In 1965, President Johnson was told by the Pentagon that if their planned operations were to succeed, they’d need to increase number of American troops in Vietnam from 120,000 to 400,000 (a veritable surge).
In 1973, the Senate voted to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States, replacing the disgraced Spiro Agnew.
In 1978, former city supervisor and ex-cop Dan White shot and killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk.
In 2001, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a hydrogen atmosphere on the extrasolar planet Osiris. This was the first atmosphere ever seen on an extrasolar planet.
In 2005, surgeons in Amiens, France performed the first partial human face transplant.
Born on This Day
1635 – Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 – Anders Celsius, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale) (d. 1744)
1798 – Rafael Tejeo, Spanish painter (d. 1856)
1809 – Fanny Kemble, British actress, author and abolitionist (d. 1893)
1820 – Thomas Baines, English painter (d. 1875)
1827 – Edouard Moyse, French painter, possibly the first to paint scenes of Jewish life in France. (d. 1908)
1853 – Frank Dicksee, English Victorian painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
1859 – William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (d. 1886)
1878 – William Orpen, Irish painter (d. 1931)
1886 – Tsugouharu Foujita, Japanese painter who lived and worked in France (d. 1968)
1905 – Astrid Allwyn, American actress (d. 1978)
1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
1937 – Gail Sheehy, American writer
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American dullard, 39th Governor of Minnesota (the man who had a bridge collapse on his watch).
1962 – Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
Good morning, Moosekind, and welcome to the pre-Thanksgiving, in-transit check-in. Clan iriti are headed to Memphis to spend the holiday with family. Hope yours is marvelous!
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The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.
The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.
It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:
Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:
Be kind to each other… or else.
What could be simpler than that, right?
Note: my family is generally great during the holiday but we’ve never done one of those extended family conflict-fests. For those of you who have experienced them…
Champagne Ellison, San Jose State University senior, at protest rally (Karl Mondan)
Colleges and universities are supposed to be “institutions of higher learning”. They are also places we expect our children to be safe. Yet once again there are headlines highlighting racism on campus.
No – not in Alabama or Mississippi, or Georgia.
This time it’s at San Jose State in California.
I’m tired of people pointing at the south as the last bastion of racism in the U.S.
I’m also tired of headlines using the term “hazing”. It diminishes the severity of the racism.
“This is not simple hazing or bullying. This is obviously racially based terrorism targeted at their African American roommate,” Reverend Jethroe Moore II, president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP said in a statement Saturday. “The community will not stand idly by and allow for any student of color to be terrorized simply due to the color of his skin.”
This isn’t simple campus fun and games. Three white students have been charged.
The students currently face misdemeanor hate-crime and battery charges for allegedly forcing their 17-year-old black roommate to wear a bicycle lock around his neck and taunting him with racial slurs that referred to slavery…
Campus officials learned about the alleged incidents last month, when the parents of the black freshman, who has not been identified, went to his dorm room and saw a racial slur on a dry-erase board, according to reports.
The student later told campus police that he had been repeatedly harassed, saying four of his roommates called him “three-fifths,” referring to a slavery-era provision of the Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person. According to campus police, the roommates hung a Confederate flag in their suite and one had Nazi paraphernalia in his dorm room
As a family, we are deeply disturbed by the horrific behaviors that have taken place against our son. Our immediate focus is his protection.
We have taken a stand on this matter. Our response prompted the community to be alerted of the appalling conduct of the students involved. We appreciate the outpouring of support from our family, community and the efforts put forth by the Black Student Union of San Jose State University.
We are hopeful the District Attorney’s office will take the necessary measures to ensure justice will prevail for our son.
Due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, we are requesting privacy.
To protect his identity and not complicate the investigation, no further comments will be made at this time.
I’m not surprised. My own campus in NY is still confronting a series of incidents – the most recent one was a sign posted in a dorm “Emmett Till deserved to die”
The incident at my college was actually the latest in a series of racist occurrences at New Paltz in the past few years. For a self-proclaimed liberal college in a liberal town in one of the most liberal states in the country, these blatant displays of racism are both frustrating and frightening. New Paltz, both the college and the town, proudly promotes diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. However, the recent spate of racist episodes challenges the very foundation on which these well-intentioned ideals are based.
What’s equally upsetting is that these events are not unique to SUNY New Paltz. As the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education details on its website, racist incidents continue to plague colleges and universities across the United States. Whether it’s “colored only” or whites only” signs being placed (“jokingly”) on water fountains, confederate flags being hung in dorm rooms, racist skits being performed at fraternity or sorority events, racist graffiti being spray painted on campus buildings, or opposing players being taunted with racial slurs at sporting events, racism is undeniably widespread in higher education.
It is patently obvious from the listings on the JBHE site, that this is not a bunch of old folks, who are dying out. These are young people, ostensibly getting educated.
As teachers, parents, students, and anti-racists we must raise our voices, and protest while we educate.
In 1825, a group of college students formed Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity, at Union College in Schenectady, New York. There is no record indicating whether the first frat boys were as obnoxious as their modern counterparts.
In 1842, the University of Notre Dame was founded. Frat boys abounded.
In 1863, President Lincoln declared November 26 a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November (which was changed to the second to the last in 1941).
And speaking of frats:
In 1909, a group of 8 Jewish students formed the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu, at City College of New York.
In 1913, New York’s Hunter College got into the act when Phi Sigma Sigma was founded.
In 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. (There was no indication that King Tut belonged to a fraternity.)
In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered that nationwide gasoline rationing would begin on December 1st.
In 1942, Casablanca premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
In 1992, it was announced in Great Britain that Queen Elizabeth II would voluntarily begin paying taxes on her personal income, and would furthermore remove her children from the public payroll.
Born on This Day
1637 – Antonio Carneo, Italian painter (d. 1692)
1670 – Jacob van Loo, Flemish painter (b. 1614)
1792 – Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1795 – Karl Philipp Fohr, German painter (d. 1818)
1816 – Joseph Édouard Stevens, Belgian painter (d. 1892)
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1841 – Eduardo Dalbono, Italian painter (d. 1915)
1876 – Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter and with Mondrian, De Stijl art movement founder (d. 1958)
1895 – William Griffith “Bill” Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, convicted German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (d. 1994)
1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
1919 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
1921 – Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author, and Picasso muse (and mother of Paloma).
1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1922 – Adele Jergens, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor, famed for his Nixon impression.
1939 – Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1939 – Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
951 – Cicciolina, Italian pornographic actress and politician
1963 – Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
Died on This Day
1771 – William Mosman, British portrait painter (b. 1700)
1851 – Louis-Philippe Crépin, French marine painter (b. 1772)
1861 – Wilhelm Hensel, German painter and draftsman (b. 1794)
1882 – Thomas LeClear, American genre and portrait painter (b. 1818)
1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1914 – Frans van Leemputten, Belgian painter (b. 1850)
1921 – Claude Joseph Bail, French painter (b. 1862)
1925 – Magnus Enckell, Swedish painter (b. 1870)
1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor (b. 1855)
1929 – Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, French painter (b. 1856)
1936 – Victor Charreton, French painter (b. 1864)
1940 – Heinrich Nauen, German painter (b. 1880)
1941 – Leo Gestel, Dutch painter (b. 1881)
1943 – Georges de Feure, French designer and painter (b. 1868)
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
1985 – Vivien Thomas, African-American surgeon (b. 1910)
1996 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer who designed many logos you have seen all your life (and not to be confused with that guy who uses the same names in reverse order). (b. 1914)
Fierces on the Weather Critter Comment are obligatory welcome.
The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.
For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.
The important stuff to get you started:
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– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”
(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)
Last Thursday, Senate Democrats voted to remove the threat of filibuster from most judicial and executive branch confirmations.
Not so scary, really.
Essentially, they said that the majority has the right to govern as a majority. Small-d democracy finally being applied to the Senate which has been in the hands of Big-D Democrats for the last 7 years.
The showdown that led to this rule change was remarkable in it’s blatant disregard for the Constitution of the United States. Senate Republicans were attempting to nullify the law that had established that the DC appeals court would have 11 judges presiding. The Republicans did not put forward and pass a bill to change the number of judges: they blocked the Senate from voting on the confirmation of the three judges needed to fill the court’s vacancies.
The Washington press corps and their sycophants in the punditry were quick to issue warnings about how terrible this would be: for Democrats. The Friday news cycle was filled with scare stories: “Democrats will pay the price”, “Harry Reid’s blunder”, “Democratic overreach will come back to haunt them”, “You did it: more Scalias for you!”, “No filibuster means more rapes!!”.
Of course, as is often the case, the woe-is-you’ers were completely missing the point and 100% wrong.
There is nothing scary about the majority setting the rules when the minority is shrinking itself to be small enough to fit in Grover Norquist’s coat pocket.
We needn’t fear the retribution from the Republicans should they regain power.
First, if this batch of Republicans were to regain power, does anyone doubt that they would have changed the rules anyway?
Second, this batch of Republicans can’t regain power: the American people despises them. They can win their gerrymandered House districts for now. They won some statewide races in places they have no business winning in a low turnout backlash election in 2010. But they will have an uphill battle winning statewide elections in Obama states if they insist on running on the tea party platform. And they will never win a national election on it. The number of people who embrace the puniness of their vision for America is shrinking, not expanding.
So, sure, Republicans may some day win the White House. They might even win both the Senate and the White House. But they would have to be Reasonable Republicans who would, by definition, be capable of being reasoned with. And there is no quick path to reasonableness as the evidence suggests that they are moving right, not left. The 2016 election cycle will be a bloodbath for them electorally when the bill comes due for the damage that the 2010 Senate class did to America and yet another Republican governor who has to run to the right in the primaries will get crushed when he tries to Etch-a-Sketch away his words. The Republican Party will need to not just rebrand itself but remake itself. To appeal to a majority of Americans, it will have to be a party that wants to share in governance, not obstruct.
But that’s democracy-people who win elections should be able to govern. Democrats should be confident about their ability, over time, to triumph at the ballot box.
“Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, it’s important not to vote for people who proudly say they will never compromise.”
Voters will reject those who shut down the government, threaten the full faith and credit of the United States, and refuse to pass laws that the American people want.
The new rules may not prove to be enough to actually achieve the goal of governing. The threat of another rule change may hang like a Damocles sword over Senate obstructionism should a Supreme Court opening arise … or it could be that people will insist that we have up or down votes for legislation also, putting House Republicans on the spot to have to defend their votes in next year’s elections.
In the meantime, President Obama will be able to establish his judicial legacy as he fills the 93 vacancies pending on the federal courts. And THAT is a Big Huge Deal.
Democrats should not fear the majority making rules. If we vote, and get others who think like us to vote, we will be in the majority for a long time.
Elections Matter. And when we vote we win … and earn the right to govern.
What are you blasé about that still excites other people?
What big news event was the first you remember (like the Kennedy assassination was for many) and what do you remember about it?
Every century has a “trial of the century” and/or “Crime of the century” alongside the “storm of the century.” What trial, crime, and storm represents the last century for you?
Do you know, or did your family know, anyone who was blacklisted during the communist witch hunts of the 1950s?
The Twitter Emitter
Fundamentalist Christianity means believing Jesus wants us to help the poor by voting against ever ever helping the poor.
In 1864, “The Confederate Army of Manhattan,” who were basically terrorists working for the Confederate side, set fires all over town (20 at least) in an attempt to burn down New York City, which turned out not to be as flammable as Atlanta.
In 1947, the group that came to be known as the “Hollywood Ten” were blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. They were: Alvah Bessie, screenwriter; Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director; Lester Cole, screenwriter; Edward Dmytryk, director; Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter; John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; Albert Maltz, screenwriter; Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter; Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter; Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter. This was only the beginning of many blacklists to come.
In 1950, the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, one of many that was called “Storm of the Century,” hit New England with hurricane force winds that toppled huge swaths of forest and a massive storm surge along the Northeast coast (including New York City) that caused extensive damage. It also brought blizzard conditions to the Appalachians and the Ohio Valley. There were 353 fatalities.
In 1960, the three Mirabal sisters, dissidents who opposed the Dominican Republic’s dictator Rafael Trujillo, were assassinated. In 1999, the United Nations established the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate their deaths.
In 1963, President Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
Born on This Day
1609 – Queen Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I and mother of Charles II of England (d. 1669)
1638 – Queen Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
1697 – Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon (d. 1740)
1699 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
1763 – Jean-Germain Drouais, French Neoclassical painter (d. 1788)
1768 – Charles Meynier, French painter (d. 1832)
1770 – Henry Sargent, Massachusetts painter (d. 1845)
1793 – Robert Havell Jr., American painter (d. 1878)
1846 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate who fortunately never got near any wineries (she liked to smash bottles and barrels with an ax. (d. 1911)
1850 – Yelena Polenova, Russian painter (d. 1898)
1863 – John Marshall Gamble, California scenery painter (d. 1957)
1865 – Georges Lemmen, Belgian painter (d. 1916)
1870 – Maurice Denis, French Nabi painter (d. 1943)
1881 – August Willem van Voorden, Dutch painter (d. 1921)
1883 – Percy Marmont, British actor (d.1977)
1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (d. 2006)
1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
1920 – Noel Neill, American actress best known as Lois Lane on the old Superman TV show.
1924 – Paul Desmond, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
1926 – Poul Anderson, American fantasy writer (d. 2001)
1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1931 – Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000)
1933 – Kathryn Grant, American actress (and Mrs. Bing Crosby)
1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
1941 – Percy Sledge, American musician
1945 – Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American felon
1964 – Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
1966 – Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rancid)
1981 – Jenna and Not-Jenna Bush
Died on This Day
1773 – Pierre Antoine Quillard, French painter (b. 1704)
1864 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (b. 1796)
1867 – Carl Ferdinand Sohn, German painter (b. 1805)
1875 – Arthur Boyd Houghton, British painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
1891 – William Notman, Canadian photographer (b. 1826)
1906 – Wilhelm Bernatzik, Austrian painter (b. 1853)
1914 – Jan Stobbaerts, Belgian painter (b. 1839)
1924 – Jules Worms, French painter (b. 1832)
1927 – József Rippl-Rónai, Hungarian painter (b. 1861)
1949 – Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, American entertainer (b. 1878)
1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born British actor (b. 1928)
1974 – Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1974 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat and UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2011 – Coco Robicheaux, American blues musician (b. 1947)
2012 – Earl Carroll, American singer (The Cadillacs and The Coasters) (b. 1937)
Today is
National Parfait Day
National Eat with a Friend Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely.
PLEASE Don’t Recommend the check-in diary!
Fierces on the weather jar comment are still welcome.
The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.
It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:
