Every day is Christmas; and everyone's an Elf.

location: Red's Room

music: 1999 by Prince

mood: rejuvenated

Get your self together, be who you are, live the live you got the best you can, don't get down on your self, don't get sad, live is just to short to be sad for to long. get your self together and get your life together, you got one life, make it great, make it something good. as I said in my last Journal and really in a few of my Journals, most of us are a little touched to start with, so just get your house in order, let it stand on it's own. be good to yourself and to others. sing your happy song, be the happy in you. so really get it together, Bye.

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william-arthur-ward-quotes

https://www.brainyquote.com/quote-20251201-3

Holiday Wishes is officially open! Time to break out the wishes, gifts, Holiday spirit and good cheer!

The spirit of the Holiday Wishes meme is for everyone to put their hearts' desires out there, to wish for anything they could possibly want, no strings attached. The history of how it all started can be read here.

Since we are collecting all of these lists in a single forum, we do want to keep things as fair to everyone as possible. For that, we ask that you follow a few simple rules. These are outlined below, but you can find the complete and detailed rules and posting guidelines on the community wiki. Everyone who posts their wish list to this community is responsible for following these rules, as well as any updates given in mod posts.

Please note that, with the exception of mod posts, only wishlists are allowed to be posted in this community. To thank another member for a gift, we recommend that you post in the holiday_thanks community.

When you post a wishlist, we ask...

• That you post your wishlist once, and only once. Posting your wishlist twice may result in both wishlists being deleted.
• That you keep your lists limited to no more than 10 wishes.

Your moderators, anewkindergoth and bookaddict88, are excited to announce that the official opening date of the holiday_wishes community for the 2025-2026 holiday season will occur on:

Monday, November 3, 2025 at 9am EDT (GMT-4)

Stay tuned for more information! In the meantime, feel free to chat about anything you'd like in the comments!

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/anne-morrow-lindbergh-quotes

https://www.brainyquote.com/quote-20251010-0

[Revised entry by Karsten Stueber on October 6, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The concept of empathy is used to refer to a wide range of psychological capacities that are thought of as being central for constituting humans as social creatures, allowing us to know what other people are thinking and feeling, to emotionally engage with them, to share their thoughts and feelings, and to care for their well - being. Ever since the eighteenth century, due particularly to the influence of the writings of David Hume and Adam Smith, those capacities have been at the center of scholarly investigations into...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/