September 2011 Life, Health & Family Upbeat in Washington!


Somedays Somedays we laugh, just for the fun of it


Somedays we laugh off the bad The pain


The silent guilt The quiet shame


Somedays we laugh for the truth of the matter


Somedays we just laugh to feel sane


To get through he hard times, we laugh


WE laugh together, to laugh


To see through the anger, it's funny, we laugh


The pity, the struggle To hope, we laugh


Laughing through a song that


puts a smile on our face Instead of missing, or understanding To have peace, or happy endings


Karen Green reads her Upbeat while waiting her turn to visit the Seattle Space Needle.


To gain confidence in ourselves To tribute the best feeling in ourself


To pay the good lord a thank you for the breath you laugh into Laughing, instead of longing Instead of crying


Instead of falling, or doubting Sitting up straight with our teeth grinning wide


Opening up to another human being who has a heart inside They make us laugh We make then laugh


John Fraire and Martina Iñiguez in front of Cresant Lake on Olympic Pennisula in Washington.


Somedays, WE just laugh by Jess Saltzer


National Grandparents Day is an observance and not a public holiday in the United States. Each year the President is requested to issue a proc- lamation to: designate the first Sunday in September after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day; and to call on people, groups and orga- nizations to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. National Grandparents


Day has more than one ori- gin. Some people consider it to have been first proposed by Michael Goldgar in the 1970s after he visited his aunt in an Atlanta nursing home, Spending $11,000 of his own money in lobbying efforts to have the day offi- cially recognized, he made 17 trips to Washington DC over a seven-year span to meet with legislators. Others con- sider Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade, a housewife in West Virginia, to have been the main driver for the day of observance. Throughout the 1970s McQuade worked hard to educate the people about the important contributions senior citizens made and the contributions that they would be willing to make if asked.


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She also urged people to adopt a grandparent, not for one day a year and not for material giving, but for a lifetime of experience. In any event National Grandparents Day was finally signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Marian McQuade received a phone call from the White House to advise her of this event. Many people believe that National Grandparents Day was inspired by her efforts. A presidential proclamation on September 6, 1979, made this day official – it desig- nated Sunday, September 9, 1979, (being the “first Sunday of September follow- ing Labor Day”) as National Grandparents Day. Many people honor their grandparents through a range of activities such as gift-giving, card-giving, and for children to invite their grandparents to school for a day where they participate in special lessons or special assembly programs. Many school students take part in story-telling activities that relate to their grandpar- ents, as well as art or poster competitions where children often use a story about their grandparents in their artwork.


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