The sun has set in Flower Mound on the 10th day of December, 2020. Now Chanukah-Hanukkah begins. I am not Jewish but I have known about the story of Chanukah-Hanukkah and the celebration of the Festival of Lights since I was a child. The business owners on Chicago Avenue celebrated Chanukah-Hanukkah and our neighborhood families did too!
The power of celebrating diversity and having respect for race, religion, sex, national origin, class, and familiar status is the gift our ancestors passed on to others. Cultural diversity is very sweet and enlightening when understanding is universal.
"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
---DANNY THOMAS
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or what you accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
---DANNY THOMAS
As a kid, my parents made sure our family watched the Danny Thomas Show. They wanted my siblings and me to learn about family values and unity. My father was very much like Danny Thomas, meaning he believed in giving to charity, especially where children were concerned. We also learned that families are not perfect and the more mistakes we made, the more we would learn about how to know, understand, and accept the fact that it doesn't matter what color your skin was, whether you were a religious person or not, or what difference nationality made in life, it's what you do for others that really counts in life. I'm not a Jewish girl, but I learned a lot about diversity because of my parents, the environment where I received my humble beginnings, and the people in my neighborhood ---Patricia Feager
