Sunday Inspiration: You Shall Know the Truth You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.—Flannery O’Connor

Sunday Inspiration: Reading Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.—Beverly Cleary

I need to watch the first episode yesterday, please.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Hard 'g' pronunciation like "girl" or "grass"

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Sunday Inspiration: Stand Up for Others Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave—and it is often hard to be brave—be kind.—Sarah Kendzior

Sunday Inspiration: Hope Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.—Pliny the Elder

Sunday Inspiration: The Truth The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.—Flannery O’Connor

How old school am I? This week I got my annual Covid and flu shots. As always, zero side effects for me. Call me crazy, but I prefer vaccines to pandemics. #RFK #Vaccines

Sunday Inspiration: Lighthouses Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.—Anne Lamott

Sunday Inspiration: Being Human Together My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.—Desmond Tutu

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Recently I learned that civil servants have the First Amendment-protected right to speak out on matters of public concern. Thurgood Marshall, in an 8-1 SCOTUS decision, noted that government employees know how the gov’t works, and the public has a special interest in hearing from them.

Sunday Inspiration: Chains It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.—Voltaire

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Sunday Inspiration: Worry Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.—Corrie ten Boom

I think we should give some credit to CVS here.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.—Edmund Burke

I owe an apology to every author and screenwriter I ever doubted when I said, “come on, no one would actually do that!” Because apparently, people do. Regularly. Constantly. Spectacularly.

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

Makes sense to me!

Being autistic in this overwhelming world is hard. Having enough breaks—and space—to recharge can be the difference between being able to cope, and melting down. #autism #neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance

The District Manager of the Rings

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.” Edith Sitwell, born on this day in 1887

Autism isn’t a disease you catch or a disaster you avert. It’s a way of being in a hostile world. Fix the hostility. Stop hunting for culprits in the womb.

Sunday Inspiration: The Children Are Always Ours The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.—James Baldwin

Is this true? I’m not a scientist; but my understanding is that autism is genetic. Up until recently, I would have trusted HHS to tell me the truth.

If you didn’t know, now you do! Sunny days are headed our way!

I feel so attacked right now.

It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

Massie: I'm calling on my colleagues: be one of the next two who sponsors this discharge petition. I think it's shameful that this has been called a hoax. Hopefully today we can clear that up. This is not a hoax. This is real. There are real survivors.

Sunday Inspiration: Liars Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.—Rudyard Kipling

They misspelled "any."

My quote of the day I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag. Molly Ivins

I would ask, "What do you mean by 'political'?"

Absolutely insane and brilliant youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

Mommy, Where Do Elves Come From? In the Caretaker Trilogy, about 10–15% of elf lore comes from Shakespeare and other Elizabethan or early modern sources. Maybe the same amount comes from other world mythology. Much of the rest comes from Alaric Hall’s masterful PhD dissertation, “The Meanings of…

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.

Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.—Jim Henson

As the dad of a daughter with allergies, I'm grateful we figured out what she could and could not eat before the rise of AI.

Sunday: Today Is a Gift Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.—Babatunde Olatunji

Today is National Navajo Code Talker Day. 🤍 We’re digging up this post in honor of these amazing heroes who turned the tides of war more than once.

Crime panic never worries about statistics.

Sunday Inspiration: Always When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.—Mahatma Gandhi

I will never understand why Jolene was ever a threat.

I’ve never once seen a “keep Christ in Christmas” bumper sticker that didn’t immediately make me go “ah, someone who’s never had a real problem”

RIP writer Flannery O’Connor, died this day 1964. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”