<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><b>“Black Friday”</b></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">By Jane Kauzlarich (my cousin)</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Black Friday, capitalist holiday,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Has been so black for me.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I’m sitting here and worrying</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Don’t want a shopping spree.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">There’s a dog out there I know about,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Who needs a warm, safe shelter.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">While people with their credit cards,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Are scrambling helter-skelter.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">They’re filling up their shopping carts,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And decorating trees,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And I’m consumed with dread for him,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And hoping he won’t freeze.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And down the road, the homeless</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Are seeking warmth and food</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">While parents garner toys and junk</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">To satisfy their brood.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">What happened to compassion?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Is it surpassed by greed?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">When did our nation come to this?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Do “things” mean more than need?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I’m hoping folks will give a thought,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">To charity next year,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">To helping out the needy ones,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And giving with good cheer.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sure, I’m a Pollyanna,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">But I can tell you this,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Helping out a needy soul,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Is pure and lasting bliss.</div><div><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">-------------------------------</div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>