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Shahd oh Shahd

Printed on the back of the card:

Shahd is one of the first of at least 20,000 children killed so far in Gaza by US-assisted Israeli strikes, snipers, forced starvation, and freezing. (Another 40,000 injured or maimed.)

This is not a political statement by a greeting card company any more than it would be political if you wince when you read that Shahd Al-Sawaf, 5-years-old when her home was bombed, said, “I’m not just big. I’m the oldest one in the house, like grandpa.”

I made this card, a Jew by birth with grandparents whose wider family, young and old, was slaughtered by nazis a few years before I turned the BIG 5.  I first saw Shahd’s photo on one of the signs held silently by people in Blue Hill, Maine protesting the slaughter in Gaza.

It does not matter if brutality is baked into our world, we can’t say “yes but another child also was killed.” Or must we? Is that us? Would the family in my grandparents’ old photos want Shahd killed in their name? I say no.

Painfully yours, MMB

Proceeds from Shahd’s card will go to helping child victims.

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We're all shedding something… you shed years.

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
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Happy Birthday!

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Some packages are too large to admire all at once.

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Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
attributed to Edward Morykwas
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Happy Birthday!

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It ain't nothin' till I call it.
William (Bill) Joseph Klem (1874-1951)
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Now… have a Happy Birthday!

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Every year at this time you're a year older, but somehow
still younger than me...
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Happy Birthday anyway.

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Wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been.
Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
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Here's to many many more. Happy Birthday!

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A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.
Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
inside: Happy belated birthday!

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Some packages are too large to admire all at once.

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A husband is doing well if he can tell the difference between his wife being angry with him and being hunted for sport.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. 
Lois L. Kauffman
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Thank You.

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My best friends are the ones who bring out the best in me.
nod to Henry Ford (1863-1947) 

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There are men running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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No one can possibly know what is about to happen. It is happening each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Photo: George Daniell

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The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
French proverb

Photo: George Daniell

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On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence.
William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925)

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You're awful when you're hangry, but otherwise pretty decent.
 

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Imagine celebrating the day all your problems started?
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Happy Birthday!

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As toddlers we don't know what it is. At middle age we don't know where it is. At old age we can't remember what it is that we don't know where it is.
 

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The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day (1924-2019)

Photo: Robert Palmer
 

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It's not how old you are, but how you are old.
Jules Renard (1864–1910)

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Another year older?
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I can't even see it. Happy Birthday!

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I check my pulse, and if I can find it, I know I have a chance.
Paul Newman (1925–2008)

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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten dollar hair cut you used to get for five dollars-when you had hair.
Sam Ewing (b.1949)

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The dinner part of my tummy is full, but the cake part still has room.  
all kids now and forever
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Happy Birthday!!

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A wig here, an accessory there - Shazam! a new life.
 

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Red, green, yellow, or blue - Happy Birthday to you!
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Happy Birthday!

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A lost loved one lives on in everything.

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We're so doggone happy for you.

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Even the tide retreats, not in defeat, but to gather its strength. You are allowed to pause. You will return stronger.
Dipendra Tamang

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We lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)



Magnets are 3.5 x 3.5 inches, very nicely produced, and put up in crystal-clear sleeves.

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Wisdom doesn't always come with age. Sometimes age shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Magnets are 3.5 x 3.5 inches, very nicely produced, and put up in crystal-clear sleeves.

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Go easy with me, I'm from the 1900s.



Magnets are 3.5 x 3.5 inches, very nicely produced, and put up in crystal-clear sleeves.

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Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)



Magnets are 3.5 x 3.5 inches, very nicely produced, and put up in crystal-clear sleeves.

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Chapbook of 15 poems by Borealis’ Mark Baldwin. Some are light, some not so. The longest is “Product Placement in Beowulf,” a never-before-known explanation of the earliest English poem, and what the tenth-century poet really was selling you.

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Let another miracle happen, peace.
Rhoda Sochin (b.1942)
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May this festival bring blessings to you and your loved ones.

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Let another miracle happen, peace.
Rhoda Sochin (b.1942)
inside 
May this festival bring blessings to you and your loved ones.

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May joy gallop through your season and thunder through your new year.
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Happy Holidays

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May joy gallop through your season and thunder through your new year.
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Happy Holidays

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