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             Pandora's Word Box 
                Ideas in Words  
  Medical Humanities - Fine Arts - Bioethics 
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To: Esteemed Colleagues, Scholars, Educators, Students, Poets and others who may enjoy the beauty and elegance of ideas in words illustrated by fine arts. 
  
From: W. Wertelecki M.D. 

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Thanksgiving Think Thanks Give Gift

... Thanksgiving has mutated from a religious celebration into a national festivity. Since 1941, by decree of Congress, the feast takes place on the fourth Thursday of November. ... mythology point out that turkeys and peacocks are kin and that they are linked with Ceres, the Goddess of harvests as well as with  Hera, the personification of family. ... like other fundamental words, the ideas in THANK and GIVE are  difficult to define. ... "Thanks" becomes clearer with GRACias ... points to GRACious GRATitude, inGRATe, GRATis and GRACe. ... derives from THINK. ... Buddha pointed out that "we are what we think" ... GIVE, its roots are in GIFT. ... GIVE is DAR and DARunok in Ukrainian is GIFT. ... GIVE is DAR and DARunok in Ukrainian is GIFT. ... DHARma, the God who tests the virtue of men. ... For Buddhists, DHARMA is the ultimate reality based on four cardinal points; truth, knowledge, birth and life. ... Dharmatma and Dharmakaya for "who never sins or is a Saint" and for "pure truth". 



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Works by Lee, Wertelecki, Anderson, Rubens ...

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