Daniel Alex

Retired English teacher/Holocaust Educator, husband, father, author/writer; born in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NYS, lover of books.

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

@Whiplash437 A one-world government is foreseen in the Scriptures.👆

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

What an amazing sight.

[Dane @UltraDane]

That's a Scarlet-headed Blackbird!

Captures a classic protective moment: the male is spreading its wings to shield the wet nest, the female, and chicks from the rain. They build open cup nests in dense marsh vegetation or shrubs, and both parents help care for the young.

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

Oh. My. Gosh. ; )

[Bobbi @kittenaround_51]

With the kids out of school for summer this mother found a really neat way to help the kids cool off and be creative at the same time. How cool is this?

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

A beautiful moment of divine appointment in a Cracker Barrel parking lot.

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

@carlosgvizcaino LOVE George's yawn. The working of great genius is not free of its moments of tedium... ; )

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Great story.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist.

21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million.

And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV.

Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham.

Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options.

She married young during WWII.

By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs.

She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust.

There was just one problem:

She was a terrible typist.

The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible.

One typo could mean retyping an entire page.

Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job.

But Bette had another skill.

She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money.

One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization:

“An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.”

That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint.

She poured it into a nail polish bottle.

The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors.

It worked.

For five years, her boss never noticed.

Other secretaries did.

Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles.

Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends.

She called the product “Mistake Out.”

Then came the twist.

In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter.

Her boss fired her immediately.

It became the best thing that ever happened to her.

She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time.

Orders exploded.

By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year.

By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually.

Then she did something even more unusual:

She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America.

Her company offered:
• child care
• continuing education
• leadership roles for women
• jobs for disabled workers
• integrated staffing

This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas.

In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million.

Six months later, she died at age 56.

Half her fortune went to women-focused charities.

The other half went to her son.

That son was Michael Nesmith.

Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees.

And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips.

It featured short films set to music.

PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV.

So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create:
• a multimillion-dollar company
• one of America’s most progressive workplaces
• and the blueprint for the modern music video era

Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood:

The mistake wasn’t the failure.

It was the opportunity.

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

Margaret Rawlings and Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday, 1953

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

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1968. Again.

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps https://t.co/zc6bJSW0Mx via @YouTube

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

1968

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps https://t.co/eFr3RsHPE8 via @YouTube

[Love Music @khnh80044]

An actor and dancer named Fred Astaire who, at 71 years old, improvised this dance at the Oscars gala.🕺💃

[少年ぜっぷShonnenZepp@ビートRock紹介 @whoskinky2]

#CarlPerkins
#GeorgeHarrison
キースとキラーのセッションもカッコ良かったけど、この1985年10月21日のカール・パーキンスとジョージハリスンのセッションもたまらない。
こちらはロカビリー。ロックのルーツに於いても個性が色々有りました。
ビートルズはこちらの影響結構濃いですね。

[happiness ☮ @triplehigh_uz]

𝖯𝖺𝗎𝗅 𝖬𝖼𝖢𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗇𝖾𝗒
𝖲𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖽𝖺𝗒 𝖭𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝖫𝗂𝗏𝖾

𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟨年𝟧月𝟣𝟨日
米人気番組『サタデー・ナイト・ライブ』出演
サー・ポール・マッカートニー最新ライヴ・パフォーマンスの映像

ビートルズ・ナンバーを演奏
"𝖧𝖾𝗅𝗉!"
"𝖣𝗋𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝖬𝗒 𝖢𝖺𝗋"

素敵だ

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

@manzottipablo Thanks much.

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

Yessir. Makes you happy.

[This Account Makes You Happy @FeelYouHappy]

This dog 🐕❤️

This is Officer Brian Santos and his K9 partner Kyra from Cocoa PD in Florida. They’ve been a team since 2018.

Impressive!👏❤️

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

Timelessness in melody and verse.

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

It's 1970. Elton John pulls out a crumpled sheet of paper and plays "Tiny Dancer" (my all-time favourite song) for the first time in front of his lyricist, Bernie Taupin, and Taupin’s wife, Maxine, who inspired the song.

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Timeless.

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See this Instagram post by @1000libraries https://t.co/P3qsQ9QdAV

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"The reason I like the Beatles so much is that to me they really were an Elizabethan music group. Their melodies, their harmonies — so much of it was 500 years of music coming home, but this time with echoes of the blues and rock & roll with which they grew up. They couldn’t escape the expressive modalities of their own traditions, and whether they knew it or not, it’s all there in the Lennon-McCartney songs.

"But when I listen to those tunes today, what I am constantly hearing is Shakespearean music and songs — music that comes from the Elizabethan court."
--#MichaelTilsonThomas

Rest in peace, #MTT. A genius with voracious appetites, a joyously open mind and a devotion to teaching, sharing and spreading great music.

#RIP #Conductor #Composer #Pianist #SFO #LSO #NewWorldSymphony #KennedyCenterHonors #Grammys #TheBeatles #Songwriting

[Daniel Alex @Educate_Resist]

@Zigmanfreud Having everything you want is not having everything. Having everything you need is everything. To think I know what I want is not necessarily what I need. God knows what I need, which is why He's what I want. And need. Amen. 🥸🙂