OMG !!!
Dillards is my favorite department store !!!
ACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(
Then, get out there and spend spend spend!!
I did ever the holidays !!!!
I'll go again this weekend ! :laugh:
It's very sad to see this happen. Roughly a quarter of the stores inside our malls around here have either already closed up or are going out of business. Of the remaining three quarters of the mall stores, probably half of them are on very shaky ground. Many of the stores at the strip mall/shopping centers are closing as well. Many stores are also closing in the downtown shopping district. It's very scary. :(
I have mixed feelings about it. Now all those mall workers have no jobs, no shitty mall jobs that is. And our homes won't be so filled with all that stuff that we have to rent storage units to put it in. And 14 year old girls in China won't have factory jobs to make all that stuff, so they'll have to go to school instead. Hmmm, maybe it isn't so bad after all!
I have mixed feelings about it. Now all those mall workers have no jobs, no shitty mall jobs that is. And our homes won't be so filled with all that stuff that we have to rent storage units to put it in. And 14 year old girls in China won't have factory jobs to make all that stuff, so they'll have to go to school instead. Hmmm, maybe it isn't so bad after all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts)
Simple Gifts
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"Simple Gifts" is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett.
It has endured many inaccurate descriptions. Though often classified as an anonymous Shaker hymn or as a work song, it is better classified as a "Dance Song" or a "Quick Dance." (That is apparent with such lines of the song as "turn, turn will be our delight" and "turning, turning we come round right". These are dance instructions.)
A shitty job is better than no job at all, Lee. Now as far as the 14 year olds working in factories, I couldn't agree with you more.Oh, I'm not so sure. I was just reading a story, "Strange Stones" in the latest edition of The New Yorker, where a Peace Corps volunteer was teaching in China, and his students argued that littering is good, because without it, all the people who toil to clean up the roads would lose their jobs. It's logic like that that distract us from the important matters.
It's very sad to see this happen. Roughly a quarter of the stores inside our malls around here have either already closed up or are going out of business. Of the remaining three quarters of the mall stores, probably half of them are on very shaky ground. Many of the stores at the strip mall/shopping centers are closing as well. Many stores are also closing in the downtown shopping district. It's very scary. :(
Which is why I found it peculiar that "Simple Gifts" is in the Episcopal hymnal. It's a religious dance song.
Which is why I found it peculiar that "Simple Gifts" is in the Episcopal hymnal. It's a religious dance song.
Simple Gifts (3:44)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwH6-QmvM5c&feature=related[/youtube]
I quibble with the changes this guy made to the tune.
You might like this version, Elle!
Professional photographer Jim Crotty presents "Simple Gifts," set to the classic Shaker traditional performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss, representing spring nature and landscape photographs taken in Southern Ohio as well as the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
"Simple Gifts,"
Yo-Yo Ma (Cellist)
Alison Krauss (Soprano)
Jim Crotty (Photographer) (2:38)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOYYlanm1k[/youtube]
It is the same here. All the malls are half empty, with more shops closed than open.
It's probably in every hymnal. A nearly perfect song, IMO.