Our memorial for the delightful, shining, loving actress, Annette Funicello, who passed away today from complications due to MS.
With great gratitude for all your work gave to us and for your confident smile, we wish you peace, love, and light.
Doozy Cards condolences cards can be found in our sympathy category here.
If, like us, you have family or friends in the states affected by Hurricane Sandy, or you are simply moved by the disaster, and you want to reach out and help, here are some organizations who are helping and to whom we can give our support as a way of pitching in to provide assistance to people whose lives have been damaged by the storm.
The Red Cross is the world’s leading, and most trusted disaster relief service. You can see information and make a donation Here.
Mayor Bloomberg has activated the hurricane shelter system in New York and is in need of trained volunteers. Help volunteers at evacuation shelters and after the storm. To learn more, email nycservice@cityhall.nyc.gov.
Save The Children provides child-friendly space kits, including diapers and hygiene items. The organization also maintains a U.S. Emergencies Fund, that allow for disaster planning, emergency preparedness, response and recovery work and psychological support. Save the Children says it’s committed to the same level of support for the impending storm. Learn more here.
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is taking steps to assist animals and pets affected or endangered by Sandy. You can donate and read about their work Here.
AmeriCares provides relief overseas to those countries and people in desperate situations due to the Hurricane., particularly in hard struck Haiti. You can read about their work and donate Here.
Here are Obama and Romney from each of their versions of the completely silly Dancing Candidates cards.
WHY SEND POLITICAL ECARDS?
At Doozcards, I think you’ll be relieved to know we don’t’ take a political stand. We try to find the humorous side of the election. Here and there over the years, a couple of customers have accused us of favoring one side or the other, but our office actually is a mix of both parties. We often joke that our votes cancel each other out. These days we all need a sense of humor about American politics. In our house, we’ve been watching the debates and we had a lot of reactions. “Why did he say that?” “Is he really making that point?” Of course, the internet is teaming with a lot of heated opinions. Jon Stuart, Stephen Colbert and SNL keep me laughing about this election. This SNL satire of the debates gives some good giggles. We should keep our sense of humor, especially if we want to keep all our friends right? If you want to keep your sense of humor about the election, send silly ecards from our Political Ecards page. When we made the Obama Dancing Birthday ecard and the Mitt Romney Dancing Birthday ecard, I could not stop laughing. The costumes are so absurd, especially the Korean flag dancing one. We have a mix of funny political ecards and some musical political ecards. Also, if you are looking for political ecards for free we have some in our free ecards section.
Here’s a link to the hilarious SNL debate spoof: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/gop-debate-cold-opening/1358180
“No sin is so light that it may be overlooked. No sin is so heavy that it may not be repented of.” – Moses Ibn Ezra
As a curious and open-minded individual, I’ve come to embrace aspects of all holidays. Each offer up history, lessons, traditions and reflections that we can all learn something from. Yom Kippur is certainly one.
So what is Yom Kippur?
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the years for Jews. It is also called the Day of Atonement, a 25-hour period dedicated to fasting, intensive prayer and a long visit to your synagogue. Even those who aren’t overly religious tend to regard Yom Kippur seriously (meaning the synagogues are packed).
There are three essential components of Yom Kippur:
The ten days prior to Yom Kippur are dedicated to repentance. One should seek out and request forgiveness to anyone he or she offended so that the New Year can begin with a clean slate.
Here’s the interesting part: if your first request is rebuffed, you should ask at least two more times. At that point, the offended should grant you forgiveness.
What a cool tradition! It seems to take into account that forgiveness is a process, not a split-second occurrence. Forgiveness can also require several attempts (who doesn’t get that?).
And let’s not forget: the scorned party must also do his or her part. In short, when someone has reached out to you several times, requesting heartfelt forgiveness, it is also your moral duty to accept it to the best of your degree.
Couldn’t we all stand for that “clean slate” feeling. This Yom Kippur, Jew or Gentile, why not seek out the people with whom you can make amends? Yes, it certainly takes courage and resolve…and it often takes several attempts. But you’ll feel a weight lifted, simply by reaching out and trying.
And maybe, just maybe, when more of us seek out forgiveness during a certain period of time, it heals the world that we live in, even just a little.
Is someone you know celebrating this High Holiday? Send them one of our Yom Kippur ecard from our collection.
The blowing of the Shofar, a ram’s horn.
My brother’s birthday was a few weeks ago. (I sent him this funny birthday e-card.) We’ve never been super close but over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate the bond that we do share.
The problem is that many of us believe our sibling relations should be like the movies: tight, loving, comfortable and close.
But, ah, life is not like the movies (shocker, right?). And our sisters and brothers are who they are. As the years go by, hopefully we can discover the common ground and peacefully acknowledge the differences.
Here are some quotations on brotherhood that may fit your fraternal relations. (The first one explains what I said above…but a little better!)
“Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.” – Susan Scarf Merrell
“A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.” – Marian Sandmaier
“Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.” – Jane Mersky Leder
“It snowed last year too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” – Dylan Thomas
“The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.” – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” – Antisthenes
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys’.” – Harmon Killebrew
“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.” – Garrison Keillor
“As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn’t care,
but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!” – Catherine Pulsifer, Inspirational Words of Wisdom
Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“What strange creatures brothers are!” – Jane Austen
Indeed, they can be such strange creatures. This birthday, send your strange creature (I mean brother) an e-card to remember. We have a fun collection of birthday e-cards for brother from which to choose.
Yes, my brother deserves a singing Elvis chicken. Don’t we all?