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66 year old IT (MIS) professional who enjoys guitar, classical guitar music, the Grateful Dead and cooking. Currently exploring Moroccan Recipes. Successful raised three kids. Who make me proud daily. Im here to discover, learn, interact, and enjoy.
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Minnesota is leading the way on combatting climate change, and we’re creating clean energy jobs in the process. www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it...

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Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

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⚓️⭐️👀💙

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He nails it.

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How to be un-dead — on Anaïs Nin's birthday, her paean of the key to living fully, with backup vocals from D.H. Lawrence

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"It is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately." Anaïs Nin, born on this day in 1903, on writing, how emotional crisis as creative fuel, and how keeping a diary enhances creativity

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Edward Abbey on how to live and how to die — immortal wisdom from the park ranger who inspired generations

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Raise the ante. Boycott Whole Foods.

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The word 'Alphabet' comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha & Beta

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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley on the source of music's secret and singular power

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"He can threaten me with jail & call names all he wants. He's got nothing else."

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The great Czech playwright Václav Havel spent years in prison for being a dissident voice of truth against power before his inextinguishable spirit had him elected president of a new democracy. His hard-earned wisdom on hope as a force of liberation:

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Money talks

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“Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.” How Van Gogh found his purpose

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"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning." Wonderful read from a wonderful mind:

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"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight." This remains one of the loveliest things I've ever read

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I keep coming back to Vonnegut's simple, profound verse about the secret of happiness

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A letter from Khris Middleton

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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

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#ValentinesDay with Emily Dickinson and her dazzling letters to the love of her life

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Living against time – Virginia Woolf on reaping the "moments of being" that make you who you are

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12 Words and Phrases for Romantic Relationships www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ori...

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"There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear...People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the difficult." Rilke on the relationship between solitude, love, and creativity

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happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

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I wrote this the morning after the election (my first as a citizen). I am rereading it now, because now it is what I too need to hear.

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How Lincoln, born on this day in 1809, drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression

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On Darwin's birthday, the moving story of his beloved daughter and the search for meaning in our mortality

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The invention of zero – how ancient India built on the ancient Mesopotamian mathematical concept to invent the world-changing symbolic form of nothingness

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One of the first black women to attend college, Edmonia Lewis was accused of making two classmates ill. She brutally beaten, left for dead. Having barely survived, she—not her assailants—was arrested. Eventually acquitted, she became a celebrated sculptor.

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