#Boston is not a Matt Damon/Ben Affleck Movie "what’s perhaps most promising about the savvy, ambitious & accomplished women of color from the 2017 Boston city council is how *good* they seem to be at the business of #politics." h/t: Joan Vennochi masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/b...

Morning Song - Light On by @maggierogers.music-social.com "If you keep reaching out, then I'll keep coming back...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/m...

The First Word on the 2025 Elections "Sometimes you win." #politics masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...

Morning Song - @amtrak.com #Blues by Alberta Hunter "Lord, he's ornery & he's selfish, He's the type of man that just don't care; He'd pawn the holy bible, Just to get his Amtrak railroad fare...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

Document the Atrocities! “Documentation is a form of #justice.... As any archivist will tell you, if there is one thing the #CatholicChurch is nearly always good at, it’s record-keeping.” @susanbreynolds.bsky.social @commonweal.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/d...

Morning Song - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk 3 "Things are going great, And they're only getting better...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/m...

Morning Song - #Amtrak #Blues by Alberta Hunter "Lord, he's ornery & he's selfish, He's the type of man that just don't care; He'd pawn the holy bible, Just to get his @amtrak.com railroad fare...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Last Word on the 2024 #Elections "Sometimes you lose." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/t...

Morning Song - Backporch #Soul by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section "...just messing around in the studio waiting for that day’s featured artist to arrive, sober up, or deal with an emotional crisis of the moment, so they could cut another #hit record." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/m...

Morning Song - Deep River by Bessie Griffin & the #Gospel Pearls "...I want to cross over into campground." #spiritual masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/m...

Morning Song - #Gloria by Mary Lou Williams “We praise You, We bless You, We thank You because You are who You are….” Enjoy. #AllSaintsDay #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/m...

#Revelations of #Divine #Love by Julian of Norwich "Prayer ones the soul to God." "...as verily as God is our Father, so verily God is our Mother." "For the blessed comfort that I saw, it is large enough for us all." #books masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/r...

"I carried a lot of shame...and that shame made my #money behavior incredibly erratic and emotional." The thoroughly impressive & honest @heatherbone.bsky.social on #MoneyUnplugged podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - Season of the Witch by Al Kooper ft. Stephen Stills "It’s Haight-Ashbury meets Memphis…but in a good way." #Halloween #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m...

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” #books masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

Morning Song - (The Man with the) Rock & Roll #Banjo Band by The #Supremes "The way he plays that thing, It makes my poor heart ring...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/m...

Eloquence of the #Sardine by Bill Francois "According to the most recent estimates, there are 2.2 million species living in the sea, not including the billions of species of bacteria. Humans have identified less than 10% of them…." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/e...

Jackie Robinson & the Integration of #Baseball by Scott Simon "Simon has a gift for finding the smaller stories around the fringes of Robinson’s heroic 1947 season...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/j...

Morning Song - Black #Coffee in Bed by Squeeze "...one.of the great blue-eyed #soul songs of the New Wave era." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...

Morning Song - Tumbling Dice by Linda Ronstadt "...my favorite recording of my favorite song of all time." @paranoiacs.bsky.social #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/m...

In My Own Words: Thea Bowman Fr. Maurice Nutt, editor "I come to my church fully functioning. I bring myself, my black self, all that I am, all that I have, all that I hope to become." #BlackCatholicExcellence #SaintlySix #books masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/i...

Morning Song - All Day All Night by Earl Van Dyke & The #FunkBrothers " so good it’s still hard to believe #Motown stashed it in the vault for 40 years." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/m...

Morning Song - Give Me Jesus by the Morgan State University Gospel Choir “When I come to die… In that morning when I rise… ‘Twas my midnight cry….” #gospel #spirituals masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/m...

Morning Song - For Minors Only by Jimmy Heath "...crackles and gleams with hard bop edges and angles riding a propulsive rhythm..." Enjoy. #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/m...

"As an investor we think about monetary #compounding but there's also life #compounding." #PenniesFromHeaven Todd Wenning on #MoneyUnplugged podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

The Miracle of #Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh “Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.” #Books masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/t...

Morning Song - Do Like You by Stevie Wonder "When they saw him they said he must be crazy Look at him he ain't nothing but a baby...." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/m...

Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns "superlative...documentary history of the #Montgomery bus boycott...an invaluable resource." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/d...

Morning Song - Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Nina Simone "Just like your daddy, he's a...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/m...

Morning Song - Sitting on Top of the World by Howlin' Wolf "Worked all the summer, and worked all the fall, I had to take my Christmas, in my overalls...." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...

Morning Song - Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Leon Russell "She doesn't have to say she's faithful, Yet she's true, like ice, like fire." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/m...

Morning Song - Opus 8, No. 3 by Fanny #Mendelssohn "...filled with beauty and sadness and loss, like a quiet cry that helps restore the soul." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/m...

Morning Song - I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me by The #SoulStirrers #gospel #spiritual masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...

#PSA Click the link if you run into any #Boomers bemoaning the lack of new protest music today: #NoKings #TheKidsAreAllRight youtu.be/2d5LQs8dC3A?si=s1WH7Q8GP1hs6hqb

Morning Song - Mary Ann by Ray Charles "Must be quite a woman." #MAH 🙂 h/t: @chrishillalx.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/m...

"Frugality was baked into us & it informs my approach to #money to this day." @paulollinger.bsky.social on #MoneyUnplugged podcast 2ith @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - I Think I'll Call It Morning by Gil Scott-Heron "Why should I survive on sadness? And tell myself I’ve got to be alone? Why should I subscribe to This world’s madness? Knowing that I’ve got to live on….” masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/m...

Morning Song - Brown Sugar by D'Angelo "“See, we be making love constantly, That’s why my eyes are a shade, blood burgundy…” #RIP masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/m...

Morning Song - Walking By Myself by Jimmy Rogers ft. Walter Horton "...the #best harmonica player I ever heard..." #WillieDixon #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/m...

Morning Song - Walls by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Sundowns are golden, Then fade away, And if I never do nothing, I'm coming back some day." h/t: #NMH #OutdoorClassroom masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/m...

Morning Song - Suite Mode by Redbone #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ColumbusDay #DiaDelEncuentro masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/m...

"I chose a healthy obsession." #investing Bryan Hinmon on #MoneyUnplugged podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - We'll Understand It Better By & By by Theodore Thomas @ Tindley Temple "And we wonder why the test, when we try to do our best, but...." #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/m...

Morning Song - The Freedom Rider by Art Blakey "...fierce, undaunted, polyrhythmic..." #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/m...

Morning Song - Delirious by @prince "Baby, lay me down, The room, the room, the room is spinning around..." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/m...

Morning Song - T Model #Blues by Lightnin' Hopkins “You know my generator quit generating/my gasoline won’t even percolate…” masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

Morning Song - The Fate of #Ophelia by Taylor Swift "You dug me out of my grave and Saved my heart from...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/m...

Waging A Good War: Change Is Not Linear by Thomas E. Ricks "People said, 'Great victory in #Montgomery, what does that mean for us? What can we do?' It took some time to answer those questions.” masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

Morning Song - Will the Wolf Survive? by @loslobos.org “It’s the truth that they all look for, Something they must keep alive….” h/t: @paranoiacs.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/m...

Waging A Good War: The Siege of #Montgomery by Thomas E. Ricks "...(m)ore than anything else, they were well-organized." 4/ masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...