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How to Say your Sorry Sweetly

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So you messed up and it’s time to fess up. Saying your sorry is not always an easy process but it can provide a ton of relief and comfort to both parties.

According to “Psychology Today”, the emotional benefits include:

  • A person who has been harmed feels emotional healing when he or she is acknowledged by the wrongdoer.
  • When we receive an apology, we no longer perceive the wrongdoer as a personal threat.
  • Apology helps us to move past our anger and prevents us from being stuck in the past.
  • Apology opens the door to forgiveness by allowing us to have empathy for the wrongdoer.

But we know how you struggle with those two words. Not to worry! We’ve got it covered. Doozy offers up several apologetic ecards that say you’re sorry without the possibility of slipping up (like the dreaded “I’m sorry but…” Don’t add that extra word, man).

And we add just the right amount of comedy to your e-apology without trivializing your issue. (A little humor serves as an icebreaker…and you probably need help wherever you can get it.)

Afraid it won’t work? The beautiful part with apologies is they work no matter what the outcome. Just the mere attempt of apologizing shifts viewpoints and softens anger.

So get going. Look over our heartfelt apology e-cards. Take a chance. What have you got to lose?

Hurricane Sandy – How We Can Help

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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.

Red Cross

The Red Cross is the world’s leading, and most trusted disaster relief service. You can see information and make a donation Here.

NYC Service

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

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.

ASPCA

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

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.

Politics And Ecards, A Perfect Union

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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

What is your Yom Kippur? Will you Forgive or Ask for Forgiveness?

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“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:

  • Teshuvah (Repentance)
  • Prayer
  • Fasting

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.