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☮️🕉️ “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ Maya Angelou
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Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

For today I leave you with Charles Bukowski.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." —Jimmy Dean

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” MLK

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." — Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." — Gustave Flaubert

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. Robert A. Cook

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther

Porta Nigra, Trier Germany Augusta Treverorum founded by the Romans late 1st century BC. Trier is considered the oldest city in Germany.