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Auburn grad; weather nerd; litigator; boy mom; Office fan “I say dance, they say 'How high?'” — Michael Scott

[Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @woofknight]

October 14, 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

🎨 Laivi Põder

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

C. S. Lewis… always hits the nail on the head

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Daylight Saving Time is one of the dumbest ideas ever inflicted on this great republic. Every year we act shocked that it's dark at 4:30. Pick permanent standard time and stop the madness.

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

[Mountain Brook Hoops @mtnbrookhoops]

⚔️ 2026-2027 Mountain Brook Basketball Roster

#MBFamily #GSG #SpartanNation

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Renowned as one of the most beautiful and iconic ballet pieces ever created, the "Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker sweeps audiences away into a vibrant, dreamlike fairy-tale world.

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

Tonight's full moon is the Harvest Moon, and it's rising on one of the biggest bird nights of the fall.

About 360 million birds are forecast to fly over the US tonight. The most will be over Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.

The moon comes up right around sunset. After dark, if your sky is clear, point a pair of binoculars at it, hold steady and wait. Sooner or later a bird will fly right across it.

If you can, turn off outdoor lights you don't need tonight. Bright lights pull birds off course when they fly at night.

[AL.com Birmingham @ALcomBirmingham]

Mountain Brook's John Colvin makes diving catch in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. https://t.co/Wkh63yppMZ

[Auburn Football @AuburnFootball]

A tradition unlike any other 🦅

[Alabama5AFootball @AL5AFootball1]

Mountain Brook WR John Colvin with a touchdown reception talks about the Spartans 10-3 win over Oxford tonight.

[Alabama5AFootball @AL5AFootball1]

Mountain Brook kicker William Russ is one of the best combo kickers in the South. @William_Russ25

[LTD @DruhanLT]

@MtnBrookFTBL @mbs_athletics 💚💛 @milosburgershop

[AUFAMILY @AUFAMILY]

This is the kind of story that makes Jordan-Hare feel like home. 🦅

A visiting mom came to Auburn expecting a loss. She left talking about 88,000 people who never sat down, an eagle that landed dead center in the stadium, and strangers who treated her family like they belonged.

HT Amanda Singleton Lloyd

[Auburn Football @AuburnFootball]

The Greatest Tradition in Sports 🦅

[Mountain Brook Hoops @mtnbrookhoops]

✅ Preseason Week 1
🗡️ Spartan Spear: Frank Druhan
🔥 A great week of our guys getting after it!
⚽️ Championship Friday: Team Witt takes down Team Parr in Double Kickball

#MBFamily #SpartanNation #GSG

[LTD @DruhanLT]

On Wednesday, we wear pink for Dolly 🦋 💓✨🎀🌸💖👚 @DollyParton @Dollywood @lindsaylohan

[LTD @DruhanLT]

@EmpireStateBldg @DollyParton It feels like we should wear pink tomorrow in her honor. 🎀🌸👚💖✨

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.