Tama Theis

Former State Representative for District 14A, representing St. Cloud, Waite Park and St. Augusta. Now retired

[Nick Erickson @nserickson]

Still the most expensive state to build a new home in the region.

This is why streamlining permitting and land use reform are critical.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Michael J. Fox playing “Johnny B. Goode” with Coldplay in 2016.

One of those rare moments that instantly puts a smile on your face.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Red Skelton, his Pledge of Allegiance! This is absolutely wonderful!. 🇺🇸

[Luce @lucyshow11]

Happy Father’s Day. 🫶 David Gates of Bread wrote this song in memory of his father. 🙏

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

Matteo Bocelli & father Andrea Bocelli singing together!

🎙️ PERFECT SYMPHONY 🎵🎶💞

💝 Happy Father's Day

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

💥One of the most famous cover performances in rock music history. All the times listening to this and it still gives chills.✨🎶

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Audrey Hepburn’s Graceful Dance | My Fair Lady

[Chris Maathuis @sports8]

Check this out. Hoover Dam launches ‘Road To America 250’
This flag is the length of a football field and it will be on display every day through July 4th #RoadToAmerica250 #HooverDam

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

POV: you visit your Nana at the senior living facility and see that they’re having their own Kentucky Derby race!! 🐎 🤣

All they’re missing are the hats!!! 👒

[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

These kids came up with a unique performance for their school Talent Show doing Synchronized “Air Swimming!”

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

44 years ago today, Johnny Cash hosted SNL with Elton John as the musical guest.

Prior to Elton’s performance, they switched outfits.😂😂😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When Mr. Rogers read a poem to the congress (1969)

[Jan @Jan812314]

Have you ever visited the Blessed Virgin Mary’s home in Ephesus, Turkey? She spent her final years there in quiet prayer and contemplation. It is an amazing place to visit where you can feel her spiritual presence.

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

🔥🎸Even in his later years, the legendary Roy Clark never lost his magic. Teaming up with his longtime friend Buck Trent, they delivered an absolutely mesmerizing instrumental of 'Ghost Riders in the Sky'. Pure country perfection from two true icons!🎶👏👏

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

When John Wayne stepped into a song mid-performance, it didn’t feel like interruption—it felt like cinema history slipping into live television 🎬✨

On The Dean Martin Show in 1965, the effortless charm of Dean Martin met the quiet authority of Wayne himself, turning a simple musical moment into something far greater: a portrait of American entertainment at its golden height.

No spectacle, no staging—just presence, timing, and two legends sharing the same breath of a moment.

This is what classic Hollywood felt like when it wasn’t trying to be timeless… and still became so. 🎞️

#ClassicHollywood #GoldenAge #FilmHistory #OldHollywood #CinematicMoments #VintageTV

[Theodore Beers @theodorebeers]

How much stronger was our culture in the '90s? A dumb comedy movie would casually drop the best-ever harmonization (for real) of a classic Marian hymn. Arrangement by a gay Jewish guy, God bless him.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This 15 year old boy made everyone cry with his angelic voice 🥹❤️
Such a beautiful voice! His Mama and is so proud of her son 👏🎶🌷

[AXS TV @AXSTV]

Johnny Cash played San Quentin Prison with Merle Haggard in the audience. Merle tells the story of that faithful day.