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Good morning, Matthew. I enjoy getting my day started with your posts. Thank you. I do hope you have a wonderful day.

happy bday writer Ambrose Bierce, b.1842, Meigs county, OH. “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.” “Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”

Ah she is so right. Authenticity is a verb.

happy bday Bulgarian-born French writer Julia Kristeva, b.1941. "When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise,...

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“A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.” Steve Maraboli Kaoru Yamada artwork

Such a very timely quote/thought. Spot on once again 👇🏼👏🏻👇🏼

RIP Hindu Indian guru/philosopher Bhaktivinoda Thakur, died this day 1914. "Those who become sectarian by obstinately locking themselves into dogmatic cults are soon diverted from lofty idealism, munificence, and liberality. They deride and rail at anyone who does not follow...

Tuesday morning thoughts 💭

happy bday Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, b.1889. “As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.” “Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.”

SPOT ON!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Nicely done, Matthew. Just like rotting hands, fake hair, and horrid voice assailing our times, this pool makes manifest, in physical notes that which afflicts us. I've shared your observation.

Monday morning coffee when the sun’s not out so I’ll bring my own. Quiet garden moments, checking out new buds, new colour, waiting for the rain I can feel in the air. Trying to figure out - life. Maybe better to try figuring out easier things. Like whether or not to have more coffee.

the definition of a reflecting pool is that it is a "shallow, still body of water designed to mirror what is adjacent". so the DC reflecting pool today is mirroring our current President and his administration and the GOP leadership in DC. If you want to clean that up, vote out every Republican.

happy bday Hungarian writer Sándor Weöres, b.1913. “If you make hell, plunge to the bottom: heaven's in sight there. Everything circles round.”

on this day in 1633 "the Holy Office (Vatican) in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system". let us not allow faith to blind us to truth and scientific advancement.

happy bday writer/pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh, b.1906, Englewood, NJ. “Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.” "One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach...

Yesterday, me and mine ten other siblings buried my father in Michigan on a cool beautiful day. his relationship with all of us was complicated, but one huge thing he gave us was the connection we all have as brothers and sisters. love to all the fathers on this day.

happy father's day to all the other dad's who father their children with love. this is for all the father's out there who father others in their lifes no matter the connection.

happy bday French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, b.1905. “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” "Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” “We are our choices.”

happy bday writer Josephine Johnson, b.1910, Kirkwood, MO. “The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”

happy bday English writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld, b.1743. “Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”

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RIP Mexican writer Ramón López Velarde, died this day 1921. "Llegará mi vejez con el cabello ceniciento y el alma en paz."(My old age will arrive with ashen hair and a soul at peace.)

Happy #JuneteenthHoliday. Have a wonderful day Matthew! Your friend from Orono Maine. Jim👋😊

Happy Juneteenth National Independence Day! On this day in 1865, "Union troops arrived in Galveston, TX, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the last enslaved people in the country—more than two years after the Proclamation was officially issued."

happy bday Australian poet George Essex Evans, b.1863. "Around and beneath are the mists of toil and the sullen roar of the world, And the sneer of scorn for a foothold gone and a climber backward hurled; But afar and above are the hopes of men with the heart and will to stand...

happy bday Norwegian artist/teacher Per Krohg, b.1889. well known for his Mural for Peace at the United Nations Security Council.

Happy birthday James Weldon Johnson.

Beautiful Matthew! Good day to you. A flower for you from Maine. Jim👋😊

happy bday writer/diplomat James Weldon Johnson, b.1871, Jacksonville, FL. "I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, Close by a path none ever chose, And there I lingered day by day. Beneath the sunshine and the show’r I grew and waited there apart,...

Good Morning; On this day in 1822, Denmark Vessey, a Black American carpenter is accused of planning a Slave rebellion in South Carolina. Vessey would be tried and convicted and later hanged. Tell America's whole story!

OTD in 1858 📢

A friend of mine likes to say. “Wherever you go, there you are!” Good Tuesday morning 🤠

Today is Bloomsday, "celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, day is named after Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, the events of which take place on Thursday, 16 June 1904." “Think you're escaping & run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

happy bday Apache leader Gerónimo, b.1829, Turkey Creek, Santa Fe de Nuevo México. “While living, I want to live well.” "I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes."

on this day in 1858 senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln gives his now famous "house divided" speech. "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.” ~Daniel Keyes This 👆🏼 reminds me of this 👇🏼

happy bday Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde, b.1888. "To think we could have linked our hands and drained earthly bliss in a kiss..." "In the forest of love, I am a poacher; I stalk you through sleepy, dense foliage."

RIP writer Daniel Keyes, died this day 2014. “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.” “A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.” “There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

It was a very long, tough day today and a gloomy, sleepless night(so far). I'm reading your post at 3:30am from SoCal. Thanks for your inspirational quotes. I will never give up, for as long as it takes to turn this country around. Happy Birthday Harriet, thanks Matthew, I think I can sleep now. 😴

A man who is in the pantheon of the gods of literature and story telling in my world. So brilliant. Did you know that he spoke and wrote in numerous languages and depending on the story he wanted to tell that he picked the language that suited it best to write it? Brilliant.

RIP Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, died this day 1986. “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” “Life itself is a quotation.”