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Paraphrasing William J Reilly (1949) (from How to Avoid Work") "to achieve true happiness, express yourself with all your skill and enthusiasm in an activity that appeals to you. In such endeavors, you feel a sense of purpose, a sense of achievement. You feel you are making a contribution. "

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Covid brought me penpals. How bout you?

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Happy two ptgs to ALNB's juried exhibition "Sometimes in Winter" : "Path through the Arbor Vitae" and "January Thaw"

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Supporting Democracy at Norwich CT City Hall

Melanie B.B. described her rage against this coup as "Vesuvian". On that I said YES! Classicists and English profs are armed with the best eords. Look out!

bsky.app/profile/dela... Go Rosa! Please Give Them Hell!

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... YIKES! What a good study!

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Euripides' Trojan Women. Poseidon: What fools are men to raze a city, destroying tombs, temples, sacred places, when they are so soon to die. ...Yet here we are, helmeted men in search of revenge. And loot. Donna Leon.

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bsky.app/profile/joan... i just did this. Please do it too.

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Ah hah! Muskrats! Yes. I welcome this term to my lexicon! No longer will i call them juvenile delinquents, frat boys, boys club, hackers, mob or street gang it would do a disservice to slander those other groups.

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Kansas farmers begin to realize real lies

So glad the Ancient Greek hero Kaineus never died, despite being trans. Resilience. Depicted in 4 Ionic friezes. Countless vases. Pounded alive to Tartarus, inspiring. Bronze plaque in Olympia Greece.

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Dione and Wendell Berry

Havoc: "wide and general destruction,” or “great confusion and disorder. The word crossed the English channel in 1066. If a commander yelled “Havoc!” their soldiers could ransack the city for anything that could be carried off; the Old French word havot meant “plunder. ”

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"Dumbest trade war in history." Multiple reactions. I Just read about the impacts on just Michigan.

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