My radio show - if I had one - Thanksgiving 2017 musings...
What would I do with my own show?
I promised to post this today. my show.... What would I call it? The funny name club show? Sassy seniors with long hair? Snak-l-frok !
But it is not like that - my name means light and if I had a show it would be to bring light into a dark place - many dark places. Confront dilemmas and mysteries and get them solved.
My housekeeper said "you really get things done" - and there is that feeling of a doing a thing for the world - but I want to focus on things my Normal Rockwell Childhood brought to table for action - then tabled and never done.
I think "Occupant Safety & Escape Technology" for planes and tall buildings would lead my campaigns - for years death from their failure has NOT been necessary, but no one is making them do it. In fact, I'd put it away, then forgot it - parents' orders. Then on NINELEVEN, I literally had to grab the counter to NOT fall down, when the memory found me and stunned me. NO ONE needed to die that day. NO ONE. If the escape tech had been done on time, two things, in fact would have happened: if attacked occupants could safely leave the plane or building FAST - super fast. But with such tech in place, terrorists may have skipped it for an idea, since there would be so few victims.
On my show, I could invite the dozens of contacts whose job it was to make and use the Technology but who could not or would not. I would talk with them to see what it would take to win the breakthrough.
This is a priority topic: lives depend on it and I am still a good redcrosslady. But I do have a list of topics I would share from my own experience and observation - I will add them here or linked.
We have so much for which to give Thanks! BECAUSE we got things done, leaping to meet opportunities and win through obstacles - and no other reason!
Patriot pages
"The Constitution was not perfect when it was framed.
It is not perfect today.
Our Constitution, even our Bill of Rights,
Provides no set formula that fits all peoples around the world.
But they do offer an inspiring example of ageless ideals realized and made to work,
with the eternal message that men and women everywhere
were intended to be free to shape their own destinies."
...Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (1969-1986) at 200th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights, from the Bowling Green, Kentucky "Daily News" January 27, 1991
Patriot Pages ~ May you find, here, patriotic inspiration, refreshers and helpful links ! ~ elle
THE VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a holy thing and Voting Day almost here - November 8th. Many places have extended the registration options, in their desire to make it easier to vote, so if you forgot, there may still be time. Check with your local government registrars or League of Women Voters or - "Voters Page" some basics and links to Voting and Elections IF you already feel fine about your own vote, get busy helping others - we are the family of Man and if we can, we should! -elle
LINKS from this page :
- GALLERY OF PATRIOTIC IMAGES FOR PURCHASE
- "Patriots Primer" link to Basics for Americans
- "Veterans Page" of helpful links and other contents
- "Voters Page" some basics and links to Voting and Elections
- Elvis the Wrecker - an Mid-Century, All-American TRUE Story
American Flag by Elle Fagan Price on Request - contact artist. These and other patriotic images and symbols are for sale here at the site and for your enjoyment at the Gallery of Patriotic Images link, above.
Great Seal of the State of Connecticut, my Home State - central to our State Flag, the motto means "They who tranasplanted sustain", a reference to our success as transplants in the New World , symbolized by the grapevines, whose transplanting has always been holy.
Love of Country,
Please do not skip these quotes from Great Men & Women
"...its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty laws, people, and manners.
My God! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessing they are in possession of,
and which no other people on earth enjoy!" -Thomas Jefferson
"All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think...
that ,and the sanctity of the courts.
Otherwise it's not America" -Edward R. Morrow
"...when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule,
And universal peace
Be like a shaft of light
Across the land"
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
"God grant, that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the Rights of Man,
may pervade all the nations of Earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot
anywhere on its surface, and say, "this is my country."
-Benjamin Franklin
"He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
-William Makepeace Thakeray, and the Bible
"The Constitution was not perfect when it was framed.
It is not perfect today.
Our Constitution, even our Bill of Rights,
Provides no set formula that fits all peoples around the world.
But they do offer an inspiring example of ageless ideals realized and made to work,
with the eternal message that men and women everywhere
were intended to be free to shape their own destinies."
...Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (1969-1986) at 200th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights, from the Bowling Green, Kentucky "Daily News" January 27, 1991
Patriot and the Arts
Grants for the Arts make the news . One headline stated that the President asked for much more than was granted, especially for a Major Project to help America become more familiar with its own Amazing American Artists . I think the project is important to America and the World; the American Arts History. ENJOY MY BLOG ENTRY: "Art in America - a Timeline"