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Your Mid-Week Treat Box of Interesting Words 🤓 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Next Selection: Friday!)

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"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." ~ Albert Camus Le Moulin de la Galette (1886) 🎨 Vincent Van Gogh

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... and into The Week we go! 🙂 Pick your favourite word 💫 A B C D (Blessings to all 🙏🌿)

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Folks are frustrated with Dems in Congress right now. Here’s my solution - get the hell out of DC and hold some hearings. I love town halls, but we need to focus on people right now. Have folks come testify about how these cuts are affecting them. Get local media there. Make it real.

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This! It would be better that the resounding silence dems have been giving the people.

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"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that." ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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"In difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart." ~ Blaise Pascal Italian Girl with Flowers (1886) 🎨 Joaquín Sorolla

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The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

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This was written about in project 2025

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“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period — When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels.” ~ Emily Dickinson March (1876) 🎨 Fidelia Bridges

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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." ~ Gustave Flaubert March (1910) 🎨 Franz Paschinger

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Words for the Weekend 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Head up, Heart Strong 🙏)

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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. ... It is a song composed by contemplation, And published by silence, And shunned by clamour, And folded by truth, And repeated by dreams, And understood by Love." ~ Kahlil Gibran

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• Mary Oliver •

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• John O'Donohue •

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Your Mid-Week Treat of Splendid Words 🤓 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Republican political strategist Sarah Longwell joined Marc Elias to discuss the cowardice of so-called moderate Republicans, why Elon Musk is one of the GOP's biggest liabilities and the media landscape. Watch the full conversation:

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Pause, and read... • Brendan Kennelly •

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Thanks to the shoutout on the ReidOut, we’ve crushed the 2M mark. All my Substack content is free! Muellershewrote.com

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained." ~ Seamus Heaney Donegal Coast (1902) 🎨 William Trost Richards

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Petition: More poetry on secret countryside gates, please.

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Interesting Words to Start Off The Last Week of February! 🤓 Choose your champion 💫 A B C D (Good wishes to all 🙏)

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A rather spiffing letter from E. B. White (the author of 𝐂h𝐚r𝐥o𝐭t𝐞'𝐬 𝐖e𝐛) to a Mr. Nadeau, urging him — and us all — to keep the faith.

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More Words for the Weekend 🤠 (Heavy on the Intrigue) Choose your champion! 💫 A B C D

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

submitted 13 days ago • 480 comments

I just wanna congratulate @meidastouch.com for beating Joe Rogan, and thank them for recommending my Substack. Indie media FTW! Check theirs out here: www.meidasplus.com

submitted 13 days ago • 280 comments

"What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow, you must find a way to work at it." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Moonlight, Cornish Coast (1906) 🎨 Albert Julius Olsson

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"Beauty is not all brightness. In the shadowlands of pain and despair we find slow, dark beauty. The primeval conversation between darkness and beauty is not audible to the human ear, and the threshold where they engage each other is not visible to the eye." ~ John O'Donohue

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"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." ~ John Muir The Early Spring in Finland 🎨 Arkady Rylov (1905)

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"The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure … you are above everything distressing." ~ Baruch Spinoza

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Your Mid-Week Treat of Interesting Words ☕️ Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Next Selection: Friday!)

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• Charles Simic •

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"For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others, they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... but all these stars are silent. You—you alone will have stars as no one else has them." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Trump went to the South this weekend. Not to visit flood victims in Kentucky, but to have his security drive him around a race track. He doesn’t give a shit about you or your needs. He’s on a vanity tour for the next four years. - Rep Swalwell

submitted 16 days ago • 220 comments