Our Final Celebrations of 2020 - Kwanzaa and a New Year! And, YES, our Fazmagorical store-wide sale continues! Just 2 more days! 12 Weeks of Celebrations.

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Week #12:

Our Final Celebrations of 2020!

Happy Kwanzaa

the special 7-day celebration of Black heritage, family, community and culture from December 26 to January 1st

According to history.com, Dr. Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966. He combined aspects of several traditional harvest celebrations, such as those of the Ashanti and Zulu peoples. Each day of Kwanzaa a candle is lit and one of the following seven principles or ideals (Nguzo Saba) are emphasized and celebrated.

Unity: Umoja (oo–MO–jah) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Self-determination: Kujichagulia (koo–gee–cha–goo–LEE–yah) To define ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Collective Work and Responsibility: Ujima (oo–GEE–mah) To build and maintain our community and to solve our problems together.

Cooperative Economics: Ujamaa (oo–JAH–mah) To build and maintain our own businesses and to profit together.

Purpose: Nia (nee–YAH) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community

Creativity: Kuumba (koo–OOM–bah) To do as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Faith: Imani (ee–MAH–nee) To believe with all our heart in our people and the righteousness of our struggle.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recently tweeted: “Of course there was always a discussion of the Seven Principles. And my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination – Kujichagulia. And, you know, essentially it’s about ‘be’ and ‘do.’”

Be and Do - Important 2-letter words for all of us to carry into 2021.

To those celebrating Kwanzaa this week. . .

Heri za Kwanzaa!

(Swahili for “Happy Kwanzaa!”)

A New Year -

looking to 2021

Yesterday Della created a lovely new window of contemplation to take us into the new year. Elements invite us to both rest and refocus, to sit quietly but also to celebrate. To look for beauty and light. To gather courage and purpose. To settle in but also look outward. To see through the cracks of time into the future but also to wait for those doors to open.

Happy New Year!

May 2021 be filled with all the important principles of Kwanzaa and with universal peace, both within ourselves

and stretching out into our world.

SHOPPING -

There's still time (2 days!) to shop our

20% off

(almost*)

everything in our store

and doubled to

40% off

if you have one of our green

"Bonus Checks"

and

Remaining nativities, ornaments, cards, cd's and select holiday decor, including select Hanukkah candles and gift items

now 50% off!

2 More Days

of Fazmagorical Shopping!

(and you can use your coupon each of those days!)

Have Fun Shopping! Enjoy Your Discounts!

(*Please note that some items have been removed from the sales floor

or marked exempt from this sale)

Shopping Our Sale Safely - PLEASE NOTE!

While in the past we have welcomed wall-to-wall shopping during our sale, we will adhere to safe occupancy recommendations which means limiting how many can be in World's Window at any one time.

A mask covering BOTH mouth AND nose is required to shop in our store.

A limit of 20 customers will be allowed inside at any time. Customers will be welcomed on a first-come-first-admitted basis. As customers leave, others can enter.

As always, we will allow trying on of clothing, but we will not be steaming them or taking them off the floor between customers.

Please use the hand sanitizers placed around the store. They are there for your safety.

ALL sales are absolutely final. No exchanges or returns.

THANK YOU

for helping us keep everyone safe and healthy!

words to take into 2021 . . .

"You are not one, you are a thousand.

Just light your lantern"

- Rumi

Here's to being radiant light for each other and in our world. Together let's celebrate a New Year of

Hope, Peace, Joy and Love

Greetings!

I lit my candle this morning as I finished editing and re-writing this newsletter. It is both humbling and inspiring to consider these last days of 2020 and the joys and sorrows, challenges and triumphs that have filled this year. It has been a year when it has been difficult to see things with clarity. Differences in values and views seem insurmountable, but hope appears gently within the exhaustions of 2020.

Now we turn to a new year. New possibilities exist in vaccinations. May 2021 be a year of fostering creative possibilities and conversations, and expand our cooperative sense of purpose. May we keep our candles lit and focus on radiant light in this coming year!

THANK YOU for your continued support of World's Window and our commitment of bringing the world to Kansas City. And I can't say it enough times - YOU are an important part of what makes World's Window so special! THANK YOU!

A world of THANK YOU's and shared wishes of joy and celebration.

World's Window

"Nobody can define you like you."

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Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm

Thursday, Dec. 31 (New Year's Eve), 10 am - 4 pm

CLOSED New Year's Day, January 1, 2021

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As always we are "sharing the world" through

clothing, jewelry, folk art, textiles and hand-selected gifts -

and

buying locally-owned is a gift to your community!