Dancing Elephants November Updates and Highlights
The Month of Celebrations: Dancing with joy, seeing wonderful submissions.
November has been a very busy month with holidays, contests and prompts. I hope everyone had a great Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. There are many countries celebrating National Holidays this month.
Thankfulness and gratefulness fill the air in November.
I would like to say thank you for all the writers, editors and readers of Dancing Elephants Press. Thank you for being here. Thank you for spreading your positive experiences, sharing your stories and wisdom to the world.
This month our most read article was written by our editor Dr. Preeti Singh. Congratulations Dr. Preeti Singh. 🎆🎈✨✨🎉🎇🎊💝
What are your reflections for this month? I am sharing mine in this article.
Did you know that there are so many amazing Holidays in November around the world?
November 1st is All Saint’s Day in Hungary, France, Chile, Belgium, Guatemala, Austria, Lithuania, Spain, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Philippines and Italy. I remember celebrating this day when growing up in Hungary.
November 2nd All Soul’s Day in Brazil, El Salvador and Lithuania.
November 3rd culture day in Japan, and Independence Day in Ecuador and Panama.
November 4th Russia celebrates their unit day Ecuador celebrates All Soul's Day and Panama celebrates National symbols day.
November 5th there are 3 countries celebration. Panama, Celebrates Colon Day remembering 1903. “Colón stopped a Colombian army march on Panama City” Finland and Sweden celebrate All Saint’s Day.
Articles summaries for the first week of November by Dr. Gabriella Korosi
November 7th in Belarus October Revolution Day is Celebrated and in Colombia All saint’s day is celebrated.
November 8th is celebration and festival for the birth of Guru Nanak called Guru Nanak Jayanti in India.
November 10th is Shout in Villa de los Santos in Pamama.
November 11th is Veteran’s Day in the United States. Remembrance Day in Canada. Armistice day in France and Belgium. Independence Day in Poland.
The summary for this week was by our editor Dr. Preeti Singh
November 13th, we announced the winners of the Veterans Day contest in these two articles by DR Rawson - The Possibilist and Dr. Gabriella Korosi.
November 14th is Remembrance Day in the Cayman Islands and Independence of Cartagena in Colombia.
November 15th is Republic Proclamation Day in Brazil.
November 18th is National Day in Oman, Vertières Day in Haiti, and Republic of Latvia Proclamation Day in Latvia.
Articles for this week were included in the summary by our editor Sharing Randomly.
November 21st brings us the Mexican Revolution Memorial Day and the National Sovereignty Day for Argentina.
Articles this day included our prompt 8 of 52 by editor Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles on this day is all about gratefulness.
Kerrie Gutierrez-Diaz responded to our colors prompt with beautiful words and pictures :”Color in life can brighten up anyone’s day. Just got to look for the color in the things you enjoy. Life will always shine brightly from the love you share in the things that make you happy.”
G. Hobson Goff III talks to us about stressers in life and how to overcome them. “We will never live a stress-free life. We’re not intended to. It’s how we address, and then overcome those stressors that build our ‘stress fighting muscles’.”
November 22nd is Independence Day in Lebanon.
Articles this day included by Dr. Gabriella Korosi’s poetry about the Mist of Life.
Aarti Tailor tells us about change and ways to work with chage in your life.
Lalitha Brahma surprises us with submitting four articles and celebrating her 200th article on Medium. Congratulations Lalitha Brahma. 💝💝🎆🎆
Take a look at her collection below. Lalitha Brahma shares her experiences and gratefulness with us:” G-I am grateful for the unlimited Guidance from my Higher Self”
Dr. Gabriella Korosi introduced her sister Dorottya Art creating NomadlandArt.
November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan.
Articles this day included by Allisonn Church. Let’s talk about books and what are we grateful for. “Books are infinite. They feel good. They smell good. They contain secrets and knowledge and dreams. They contain family and hope.”
Alan Simpson shares with us things he is grateful for, and Television is one of them. the other two is family and Voulenteering. “This might seem like an odd thing to be grateful for, but I have always been a bit of a TV addict.”
November 24th Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
Articles this day included an amazing experience by Dr. Preeti Singh at the Golden Temple. I love this article. I could see myself there.
On November 25th we received some lovely articles from DR Rawson - The Possibilist sharing his personal experince about mobility and using a cane. “Giving up because I have to have a cane with me, It’s not an option. The advice of my father-in-law is still the best.”
Elvie Lins tells us about her experiences and what is she grateful in her life with beautiful poetry.
”Gratitude is the strength in my heart that allows me to love unconditionally, and see the best in others, even when they’re at their worst.”
Neal Lemery tells us about quiet moments in the morning and his routine.
November 26th, we shared exciting updates on our book project that is getting very close to being published by Dr. Gabriella Korosi. A lot of last-minute editing, making lists, discussions, housekeeping, reading and re-reading going on behind the scenes and we are getting closer each day to publish our book. 🎆🎇✨🎉🎊
November 27th Suma Narayan shared her article about people in her life and gratefulness: “I am grateful to all the people in my life. They made me what I am today, and they lend colour to my dreams, shape my desires and touch my heart. Whether they mean well, or ill, I am glad of their past, present and future presence in my life.”
Aarti Tailor talks about the healing process. “When we come to terms with the fact that we are the captain of our ship, we are able to sail to new heights of growth and power.”
G. Hobson Goff III tells us some important lessons about motivation: “Be yourself. Stay motivated. Do ‘you’. That’s all you can do. You’re the best ‘you’ that you have.”
An amazing article from Umme Salma about crying and emotions. “In the journey of life, sometimes, you will find yourself fragile, and it is okay as a human being.” — love her words.
November 28th Panama celebrates its independence from Spain.
Articles this day included The Sturg sharing thoughts on gratefulness. “Don’t take your life for granted. Every day we wake up and breathe and survive is a blessing.”
Moments of Inspiration by Dr. Gabriella Korosi as our Prompt 9 of 52. Have you ever tried to make your own paint from spices and ash?
Lola Rosario’s article on returning home and a lot of interesting history. Do you know about Don Pedro Albizu Campos? “That I chose one of Borikén’s most beloved patriots for my article was intentional. I neither view him as a ‘celebrity’ nor as infallible, but rather as someone whose legacy continues to us of our beauty — and that we must never kneel to the yanquís or to anyone!”
On November 29th DR Rawson - The Possibilist tells us about gratefulness: “If we teach our children and others to be thankful, our road home will be blessed, and our souls will be refreshed.”
November 30th Romania, Yemen and Philippines celebrate their holidays. In Romania it is St. Andrew’s Day. In Yemen it is Independence Day. In the Philippines it is Bonifacio day.
References
November Holidays Around the World: The Ultimate Guide 2022 (calendarhours.com)
I hope you have enjoyed this November collection; may you have a wonderful day.
Thank you for reading,
Gabriella
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