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- ‘CHEW ON THIS’ MULTI-FAITH WALK – BIG SUCCESS!
- “OH! MY PAPA …” FATHER’S DAY IS HERE
- “YOU KNOW THE HEART OF THE STRANGER”
- “THANKS, MOM. LOVE YOU!” — SUNDAY MAY 14
- “THEORY INTO PRACTICE” – PART 2: THOUGHTS ON HELPING A NEWLY ARRIVED SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILY
- “THEORY INTO PRACTICE” — PART 1: THOUGHTS ON HELPING A NEWLY ARRIVED SYRIAN FAMILY
- #MeToo and #MeGillah: The Disturbing and Empowering Sides of Purim
- $15 and Fairness
- 1st WINTER – A NEWCOMER FAMILY UPDATE
- 2016/2017 DJC CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM REGISTRATION
- 2017 / 2018 DJC CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
- 2018 NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP / Announcement of the Annual General Meeting
- 2022/2023 DJC COVID-19 Policy for In-Person Services & Other Programs
- 4 Simple Actions to Make a Green and Just Recovery Happen
- 5774 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon – HEARING THE INNER CALL
- 5774 Kol Nidrei Sermon – YOU ARE HERE
- 5774 Rosh Hashana Day Sermon – HEARING THE CALL OF JUSTICE
- 5775 Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon – THE DJC AT EIGHTEEN – WHAT ARE WE READY FOR?
- 5775 Kol Nidrei Sermon – AYEKA? WHERE ARE YOU?
- 5775 Rosh Hashana Day Sermon – CHOOSING LIFE! THREE PATHS TO ALIVENESS
- 5776 Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon – BELONGING TO EACH OTHER
- 5776 Kol Nidrei Sermon – WHAT DO WE HUNGER FOR?
- 5776 Rosh Hashana Day Sermon – CONNECTING TO COMMUNITY: WHAT WE BUILD TOGETHER
- 5777 Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon – SWIMMING IN THE WATER OF LIFE-LONG LEARNING
- 5777 Erev Rosh Hashanah – RADICAL WELCOME
- 5777 Kol Nidrei Sermon – REACHING THROUGH ANGER
- 5777 Rosh Hashana Day Sermon – THE WHOLE TORAH ON ONE FOOT
- 5778 Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon: HINENI ~ HERE I AM
- 5778 Rosh Hashanah sermon: HINENI ~ SHOWING UP FOR THE WORLD WE NEED
- 5778 Yom Kippur Sermon: A WOUNDED PERSON’S GUIDE TO FORGIVING
- A Bench of Menches: The DJC Needs New Board Members!
- A Board Member’s Perspective on Sukkot
- A FAMILY SETTLING IN: UPDATE, FALL-2017
- A Farewell to Rabbi Miriam, Cantor Lisa & Danny
- A Few Pictures from Israel & Palestine
- A FEW THINGS STILL NEEDED FOR SYRIAN FAMILY
- A FUNNY THING HAPPENED …
- A Harp in the Window: Thoughts on my First Album
- A Little Less Alone, A Lot More Together: A Report from our Community Conversations
- A Message From Rabbi Miriam After Pittsburgh
- A Message from the Danforth Jewish Circle on the Eve of Shavuot
- A Message from Toronto East Anti-hate Mobilization (TEAM)
- A Note from our Fundraising Committee
- A note from Rabbi Miriam before our upcoming Yom Kippur services
- A PLACE TO CALL HOME
- A Recap of our 2019 Chanuka Arts Fair & Festival!
- A Sweet New Year
- A Truly Giving Community
- A VERY HAPPY 1ST EID IN CANADA!
- A Vision for a Sweet New Year
- ACCESSIBILITY INITIATIVE NEEDS HELP
- ACCESSIBILITY INITIATIVE SURVEY
- ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS
- Accessibility Update for the High Holydays
- ACCESSIBILITY UPDATE!
- Advice from a Tree
- After the Ecstasy, More Ecstasy
- ALL MOVED IN!
- An Embarrassment of Riches: Announcing DJC’s New Clergy Leaders
- An Update from the DJC Accessibility Initiative Committee
- An Update from your Accessibility Initiative Committee!
- An Update on our Jewish Studies Program
- And You Shall be a Blessing: A Tribute to Rabbi Miriam and Cantor Lisa Kent
- Announcing: Beit Olam Cemetery to Meet the DJC’s Needs
- Antiblack Racism and the DJC
- APRIL BOARD MESSAGE
- April Feature: Jewish Free Loan Toronto
- ARE SYRIAN REFUGEES JUST “EXTRAS” IN THEIR OWN STORIES?
- Are We There Yet? Counting the Omer on the Road
- ARE YOU A MARKET RESEARCHER OR SURVEY DESIGNER?
- At Home on the Earth
- B’NEI MITZVAH PROGRAM 2017/2018 ~ A FEW SPACES LEFT
- BE A HOST / BE A GUEST FOR PESACH
- Bearing Witness is a Moral Act
- Being a Jew When There are Swastikas in the Street
- BETHANY FOOD BANK ~ CONTRIBUTIONS OVER THE YEAR
- Building a Warm, Welcoming, and Supportive Community
- CALL FOR DONATION OF STORAGE SPACE
- CALLING ALL BOOK LOVERS!
- CALLING ALL DJC MEMBERS
- Can You Hear the Shofar?
- Chanuka Donations & How You Can Make a Difference for the DJC
- Chanukah Clean-Up, Dedication and Sparking New Potential
- Chanukah is Coming! Time for an Oil Change
- CHESED NEEDS SOME OCCASIONAL HELPING HANDS
- Children’s Jewish Studies Program Classes will Begin on September 17!
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM UPDATE
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES 2018 – 2019 REGISTRATION CONTINUES!
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM ~ Acting Principal’s Report
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM ~ Principal’s Report
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM ~ Principal’s Year End Report
- CHILDREN’S JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM UPDATE
- CJN (on Judaism & Buddhism): PERSPECTIVE BY RABBI MIRIAM
- Climate Crisis Letter Writing Campaign
- Climbing the Ladder of Tzedakah
- Closing Community Conversation & AGM
- Collective Listening – Shavuot
- COMMUNITY WIDE PEACE VIGIL – FEB 3rd
- Connecting with the Natural World Through Jewish Ritual and Art Making
- CREATING EID GIFT BASKETS FOR NEWLY ARRIVED SYRIAN FAMILIES
- Dai’eynu – What is Enough?
- Darkness & Light: Reflections on Hanukkah
- December’s Board Message
- Deployed for Goodness
- DJC at Forefront of Progressive Judaism in Toronto
- DJC efforts/actions to further truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples:
- DJC efforts/actions to further truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples:
- DJC GOES SCENT FREE!
- DJC High Holydays Food Drive 2020
- DJC High Holydays Food Drive 2022
- DJC Member Spotlight: Tanya Lee
- DJC SEEKING INSPIRING TEACHERS & INNOVATIVE TEEN PROGRAM LEADER
- DJC Statement on Kamloops Indian Residential School
- DJC Statement on the Crisis in Israel
- DJC Support During Covid-19: What We’re Doing to Support our Membership
- DJC Teens Learn About Fighting Hunger & Youth Social Justice
- DJC WELCOMES NEW TREASURER
- DJC’s Cemetery Proposal – Learning About Jewish Burial Practices
- DJC’s Social Justice Committee: Chanukah Candle Lighting Themes and Speeches
- Do you know when the first Seder took place?
- DO YOU REQUIRE AN ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE TO ATTEND HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES?
- DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR FOOD BANK DONATIONS TO HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES!
- Donations of Household Goods Needed
- DONUT CREME ALMOST FILLED OUR TRUCK!
- Easing the Pain of Covid-19: A note from the DJC Social Justice Committee
- EASTMINSTER PLAN FOR ACCESSIBILITY
- EID GIFT BASKETS FOR SYRIAN FAMILIES
- Elul Programming – A Month of Connection, Reflection and Action
- Embracing the DJC
- Erev Rosh Hashana 5781 – Dismantling (and Building Anew)
- Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon 5782
- Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5783 – One of the Ten
- Events and News from the Climate Action Team
- Evolution, God and Higher Consciousness, Oh My!
- Exciting New High Holy Day Initiatives
- Failing Wisely
- Faith in Our Community
- FEBRUARY’S BOARD MESSAGE
- Federal Election Voting and Shemini Atzeret/ Simchat Torah
- FIRESIDE CHATS ARE BACK!
- FIRESIDE CHATS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
- FOCUS GROUP
- Following in Their Footsteps
- FORT McMURRAY CRISIS RELIEF FUND
- From the Recording Studio to Shabbat Shira
- Funding Gap, Syrian Family, and the Question of Non-Jewish Members in Ritual Leadership
- Getting Egypt Out of Our Hearts – Some Thoughts for Pesach
- Getting Ready for Pesach
- GETTING READY TO WELCOME A NEW CANADIAN FAMILY …
- Getting the Right Corrective Lenses for Teshuvah
- Giving Corner – April 2022
- Greetings from the New Chair of the Board of Directors
- Guess What’s at 1:00 pm Today!
- Hachnasat Orchim
- Happy New Year / A Good New Year
- Have a Wonderful Summer!
- Havurot 5782
- Havurot 5783
- HELLO, COMMUNITY!
- Help Write the DJC Book!
- Here’s what you need for our virtual High Holy Days youth programs
- Here’s to Freedom
- HIGH HOLIDAYS-2016: REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP UPDATE
- HIGH HOLYDAY FOOD DRIVE
- High Holydays 5781: Creative Supplement of Poetry and Readings
- HOST A BRUNCH: HELP US PUT THE FUN IN FUNDRAISING & UNITY IN COMMUNITY
- Hot Jews
- How Awake Should We Be?
- How do I decide what to give as my donation to the DJC this year?
- How Do We Move Forward in the Face of Fear?
- How the Grinch Stole Chanukah
- How You Can Make a Difference for the DJC during the Coronavirus Pandemic
- I Can See Clearly Now
- Important Information About Accessibility at our High Holyday Services & Events
- Important Information About Accessibility at our High Holyday Services & Events
- IMPORTANT PARKING UPDATE!
- IN NEED OF LOVING KINDNESS?
- In the Bathhouse with Aphrodite – Why We Are Wrestling with Jewish Sources?
- INGREDIENT LIST NEEDED FOR POTLUCK DISHES
- Inner Sparks – Reflections on Our Community Art Project
- INTERFAITH RESPONSES TO THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS
- ISRAEL WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND
- ITANU TORONTO: MORE THAN A SHABBAT SERVICE ONCE A YEAR
- ITEMS WE STILL NEED FOR THE FAMILY
- January’s Board Message
- Je Suis Juif
- Jewish Innovation, Life-Long Learning, and Where We Are
- Jewish Women of Colour Leading the Way
- Jews & Non-Jews in Ritual Leadership Roles
- JEWS & NON-JEWS IN RITUAL LEADERSHIP ROLES
- JOB SEARCH TO HELP THE DJC’S SPONSORED FAMILY
- Join the Chesed Caring Committee!
- JOIN US FOR OUR “CHEW ON THIS” MULTIFAITH WALK
- Judging Others Wisely
- Judging Ourselves Wisely
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- KAVOD / HONOUR
- Kol Nidre Sermon 5782
- L’ARCHE ~ THEIR VISION OF AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
- L’shanah Tovah & L’chayim!
- LARGE PRINT & BRAILLE SIDDURIM AVAILABLE
- Le’chayyim! To Life! Two Causes for Celebration & Reflection
- LEARN TO READ TORAH!
- LEARN TO READ TORAH!
- LEAVES OF REMEMBRANCE
- Leaving Egypt and Coming to Israel
- Let all who are hungry come and eat! Be a host or a guest for Pesach.
- Let’s Start at the Very Beginning
- Let’s Talk
- LET’S TALK, PART 2
- Letter re: Repeal of Bill 23, Feb 14 2023
- Letting the Light In
- LGBTQ JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT STUDY: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
- LGBTQ Pride, Charleston, and the Religious Revolution of Loving
- Liberating Language
- Listening for New Life in Birdsong & Torah
- Listening to the Four Children of the Haggadah
- Living Wisely in Paradox this Summer
- LOOKING FOR COMMUNITY GARDEN VOLUNTEERS
- Looking for People to Join our Interfaith/Intercultural Task Force!
- Looking for your next great read?
- Lucky Life
- Making Conscious Choices in the Face of Fear
- Making DJC Memories
- Many Ways to be Part of Community
- MARCH BOARD MESSAGE
- MARCHING TOGETHER FOR PRIDE
- Mask Appeal
- Masks for All!
- MAY BOARD MESSAGE
- May Feature: Jewish Family & Child
- MAZEL TOV — THE DJC & CANTOR LISA ARE READY TO GET MARRIED!
- MEMBER ENGAGEMENT
- MEMBER VOICES: THANKING OUR DONORS
- Mind the Funding Gap (Before the DJC Falls Into It!)
- Miriam’s Cup: A Letter Against Annexation and the Brokenness of The Three Weeks
- Miriam’s Cup: A Queer Ketubah – One Snapshot of What Your Membership Grows
- Miriam’s Cup: Anti-racism and Teshuva
- Miriam’s Cup: Artists are the New Rabbis
- Miriam’s Cup: Chauvin Ruling
- Miriam’s Cup: Growing a Courageous Heart
- Miriam’s Cup: Interfaith Families in Toronto – A Brandeis Study
- Miriam’s Cup: Learning From Trees – What Will Get Us Through the Winter
- Miriam’s Cup: Lifting Joy, Elevating Pride
- Miriam’s Cup: The Days of Awe Will be Awful Unless…
- Miriam’s Cup: Training Our Eyes to See Hidden Light
- Miriam’s Cup: Tu BiShvat’s Outer Shells and Hidden Sparks
- Miriam’s Cup: What 15 B’nei Mitzvah Students are Teaching Me About Chanukah
- Miriam’s Cup: What’s the Blessing for the Covid Vaccine?
- Miriam’s Cup: Building Sabbatical Culture – DJC Learning and Practice for the Year Ahead
- Mixing Brokenness & Joy, Exile & Homecoming
- Movie Night is back for another great season!
- MUSICIANS, WRITERS, DANCERS, ACTORS: SHARE YOUR TALENTS
- National Indigenous History Month in Canada
- NEW HAVURAH INITIATIVE
- NEW RITUAL LEADERSHIP TRAINING SESSIONS
- NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP
- NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP
- Nominating Committee Report to the Membership
- Nominations are now being accepted for three new members on the DJC’s Board of Directors for the 2022-2024 term!
- November’s Board Message
- Oh, Spring!
- On Chanukah, Sexual Violence, and the Courage to Go Public
- One Year Commemoration of the Tragic Shootings on the Danforth
- ONE YEAR LATER: A LOOK BACK AT OUR REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP
- Open Your Doors for Pesach
- OPPORTUNITY TO HELP GOVERNMENT ASSISTED REFUGEES (GARs)
- Out of the Cold – List of Supplies Needed
- Ownerless Like the Desert – Preparing for Shavuot
- Oy Vey, What a Year!
- PARIS, BEIRUT, AND OUR COMMITMENTS MOVING FORWARD
- Participate in Hunger Relief
- PESACH ~ BE A HOST / BE A GUEST
- PLEASE DONATE TO THE DJC PROGRAMS for 2018-19 AND BEYOND
- Please join us in welcoming our new interim rabbi, Rabbi Ilyse Glickman, to the DJC!
- Practices and Gifts for the In-Between Time
- Presenting our 25th Anniversary Tapestries!
- PRIVATE SPONSORSHIP – A CANADIAN MODEL WORTH EMULATING
- PRIVATE vs. GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED REFUGEES
- PRIVATELY SPONSORED & GOVERNMENT SPONSORED REFUGEES
- PURIM 2016: READ ABOUT DONATONS & WATCH THE VIDEO
- Purim, Pipelines and a Paradigm Shift
- Purim’s Radical Laughter
- Push Back on Efforts to Commodify Water for Profit
- Put on Your Mask – Care-a!
- Rabbi Search FAQ
- Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and Jewish Values
- Reflecting & Looking Forward
- Reflecting on 50 Years Since the Six-Day War
- Reflecting on Another Great Year of Jewish Studies!
- Reflection on the DJC Rosh Hashanah Dawn Service
- REPORT ON APRIL 19th COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- REPORT ON DECEMBER 7 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- REPORT ON FEBRUARY 23rd COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- REPORT ON NOVEMBER 9 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- Responding to Charlottesville
- RESULTS OF MARCH 7 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- RESULTS OF OCTOBER 25 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- REVEALING & WRITING OUR WRONGS
- Revised Nominating Committee Report to the Membership – October 30, 2020
- Ritual Roles Part 2 – Participation, Leadership & Non-Jews
- Ritualizing Stories That Never Happened – Reflections on Wrestling Together in December
- Rosh Hashana Day Sermon 5782 – On Becoming Ownerless
- Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5783 – Meeting Each Other In Loss and In Comfort
- Sacred Laundry: Washing the Tallitot
- SAVE THE DATE ~ JUNE 3rd
- Shabbat before the Women’s March
- SHABBAT ITANU ~ A WARM & WELCOMING SERVICE
- SHABBAT UNSERVICES
- SHARE YOUR TALENTS FOR EARTH HOUR
- Shoes on the Doorstep, Sandals on Our Feet – A Pesach Teaching
- SHOUT OUT-TO ALL YOUNGISH & JEWISH DJC MEMBERS
- SHOW YOUR PRIDE & MARCH WITH US
- Sinai for Beginners
- SING FROM YOUR HEART!
- SINGING IN THE RAIN…
- SO MUCH TO LEARN!
- So You’re Scared. What is that Your Business?!
- SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Social Justice Shabbat: A Discussion of Healthy Food for All
- SPACE AVAILABLE IN DJC B’NEI MITZVAH PROGRAM!
- SPEAK ARABIC OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES?
- SPIRITUAL SOUNDS LAB WITH JOEY WEISENBERG
- SPONSORSHIP: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING
- Spring Fundraising Campaign
- SRO FOR BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY
- STAFF CHANGE
- Standing up for Religious Freedom in Israel
- Starting a conversation on Anti-Racism
- Statement from Rabbi Miriam on Recent Attacks in Israel
- Statement from Rabbi Miriam on the shooting in Buffalo
- Statement from Rabbi Miriam on the Uvalde School Shooting
- Statement from the DJC – Statement of Solidarity Against Racist Violence
- Statement from the DJC on Anti-Muslim Attack in London, Ontario
- Statement on Antisemitism
- STATEMENT ON THE YONGE STREET ATTACK
- SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILY SPONSORSHIP – DECEMBER 6TH UPDATE
- SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILY UPDATE
- SYRIAN REFUGEES CHAT WITH TOURISTS ON THE ISLE OF LESBOS
- Take Action! Opportunities to get Involved from the DJC Climate Action Team
- Taking Stock & Welcoming the New Year
- TAKING STOCK: A REPORT ON OUR REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP PROJECT
- Tasting Trees
- TEACHING NEWCOMERS TO FISH
- Teshuvah & Canada’s Aboriginal Children: Confronting Destruction, Building Repair
- That Thing You Do
- That’s a Wrap for 5780! A Message from Alysse
- The Blessing of Wrestling
- THE BOY IN THE MOON
- The Claudia Bali Educational Endowment
- THE CUSTOM OF WEARING WHITE ON YOM KIPPUR
- The DJC at Eighteen
- The DJC Board Is Looking For Two New Members For The 2020-2022 Term!
- The DJC Community – Responding in Times of Challenge
- The DJC Is Going to Israel. Are You?
- The DJC is Looking for a Volunteer Treasurer
- The Impact of our Chesed Caring Committee
- The joy of volunteering
- The Rabbi-Community Relationship
- The Revolution Will be Televised – Let’s Get Ready
- The Story Behind the Kaddish Tapestry
- The story behind the Kaddish tapestry at our Yom Kippur services
- THE STRANGER AT OUR SEDER TABLE
- The Torah of Honey: A Rosh Hashanah Podcast
- The Ve’ahavta Project 2022
- THERE’S A NEW BLOG ON OUR WEB SITE!
- There’s Still Time to Help Write the DJC Book!
- THEY’RE HERE — WELCOME THE NEWCOMERS!
- THIRD NIGHT SOCIAL JUSTICE SEDER: JOURNEYS OF LIBERATION
- Tikkun Olam: Take Action – April 2022
- TIP FROM ACCESSIBILITY INITIATIVE COMMITTEE
- To the Road Ahead
- Torah Study: An Intentional Space for Growth and Community
- Torahpalloozah!
- TOT / PRESCHOOLER MEET and GREET
- True Grit – Some Thoughts on Leadership
- Understanding Anti-Semitism & Internalized Anti-Semitism / Report from February 23rd Community Conversation
- UPDATE ON RABBI MIRIAM’S AVAILABILITY AT THE DJC
- UPDATED REPORT ON NOVEMBER 9 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
- URGENT HELP NEEDED!
- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MULTI-FAITH WALK
- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR OUT OF THE COLD PROGRAM
- Wake Up and Smell the Blintzes!
- Walking Forward with Tragedy in One Pocket and Renewal in the Other
- Walking in Solidarity from Purim to Pesach
- Want to Know What’s Going on With the Rabbi Search?
- WANTED: SCHLEPPERS, VEHICLES & FURNITURE
- We Are Connected in Mysterious Ways
- We Are Excited to Be a Founding Partner in the Danforth Multifaith Commons
- We can’t all be Greta Thunberg, but your choices have a ripple effect
- WE REACHED (& SURPASSED) OUR GOAL!
- WE’RE HIRING!
- Wear a Mask!
- Welcome Circles For Afghan and Ukrainian Refegees Sponsored by JIAS
- WELCOME NEW DJC MEMBERS!
- Welcome to our new Visiting Artist, Leah Gold!
- Welcoming the Stranger – Refugee Shabbat and Taking Action
- What Is the State of the DJC?
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel & Gaza / Report on Our Community Conversation & Where We Go from Here
- Where There’s a Will There’s a Way: Tips for Estate Planning
- Who Are You Inviting to the DJC?
- Who wants to be a fundraiser?
- Who Will You Be at the Seder This Year?
- Why is This Passover Different from All Other Passovers?
- Why Our 26th Year Matters
- Why Your Voice Is Needed
- Wintering: Letting Within and Without Lie Fallow
- Word of the Month: Naches
- WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
- Yahrzeit – One Year Since the Danforth Shooting
- YAHRZEIT LEAF WALL HANGINGS
- YAHRZEIT WALL HANGING
- Yom Kippur Sermon 5781 – Building Anew
- You Made a Difference!
- You Want It Darker
