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Zimbabwean, Goffal, Episcopal Priest, Musician, Decolonial Practical Theologian, INFJ, 4w3, Pisces, into Opera, J.S. Bach, Pauli Murray, Maurice Ravel, Films, Quattrocento Art, Novels, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and Howard Thurman. 📍Twin Cities, Minnesota 🇿🇼 🏳️‍🌈
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Happy birthday to fellow Pisces Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) 🐠 ♓️

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Rest in peace, Roberta Cleopatra Flack (February 10, 1937 – February 24, 2025)

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Onward 📚

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Happy birthday to four fellow Pisces Nina Simone, John Henry Newman, W. H. Auden, and John Lewis! 🐠 ♓️

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Happy Birthday fellow Pisces Riccardo Chailly (born 20 February 1953)! 🐠 ♓️

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Happy birthday to fellow Pisces Chappell Roan (born February 19, 1998)! 🐠 ♓️

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“Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other’s difference with respect.” — Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)

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“The mind really is a palace. Not only for its perception of symmetry and the outrageously beautiful, but also because it can invent, imagine, and, most important, it can delve.” — Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)

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Miss Huang in Severance is so Ratchet 😅

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Set us free, heavenly Father, from every bond of prejudice and fear; that, honoring the steadfast courage of your servant Absalom Jones, we may show forth in our lives the reconciling love and true freedom of the children of God, which you have given us in your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Happy 98th Birthday to the divine Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927)! "Man, I love her as an artist. I love the way she sings Tosca. I wore out her recording of that, wore out two sets. Now, I might not do Tosca, but I loved the way Leontyne did it." — Miles Davis

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‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ — Matthew 25:40

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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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Grateful for Abē and Dr. Wes for this conversation and for your friendship. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.” — 1 John 4:7-8

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Thank God for Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (3 February 1525 – 2 February 1594)

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Favorite time of day. #Evensong #Vespers #Sunset Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people, To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.

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Thank God for Mozart.

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Kinship Across Lines of Difference sounds like Barbara Hendricks, Christa Ludwig, the New York Philharmonic, the Westminster Choir, and Leonard Bernstein co-creating Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony No. 2 🎧

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“I love Orin because she is a source of radiance in the orchestra… as impossible as any other miracle.” — Leonard Bernstein

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Gorgeous recital by Emmanuel Pahud, flute and Alessio Bax, piano. César Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major (arr. Pahud) restored my faith in humanity.

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The bishop at President Trump’s inaugural prayer service implored him to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, as well as undocumented immigrants. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” asked Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

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Queer Eye is Practical Theology. “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

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Sometimes the only way to cope with existential dread is Rudolf Buchbinder and the Vienna Symphony playing the complete Mozart Piano Concertos. Each one reminds us, “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich music.apple.com/us/album/moz...

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François-Xavier Poizat is leading 2025’s Maurice Ravel 150th-anniversary festivities exquisitely. 🎧 On repeat 🎧

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