Weekend Words: Blessings
The coverage of New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith's pursuit of the New York City mayoralty revealed this detail, courtesy of Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News: In Queens, a sign at Smith's district office read, "Theme of the Week: Blessings Have No Restrictions." Following suit, Weekend Word

The coverage of New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith’s pursuit of the New York City mayoralty revealed this detail, courtesy of Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News:
In Queens, a sign at Smith’s district office read, “Theme of the Week: Blessings Have No Restrictions.”
Following suit, Weekend Words has made ‘blessings’ its theme of the week as well:
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
—Bram Stoker
“It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“When reason rules, money is a blessing”
—Publilius Syrus