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Learner/TennisPlayer/Faculty/ID/Undercovers Reader-"The Elasticity of imagination & compassion is what writing & reading promote"~Julia Alvarez

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@HotelJenTanglin —Room Service from Robot “Jena”. (I seriously need one of these at the house!). #TechIsGreat

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father.
They never came home.
And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms. #dday #FreedomIsNeverFree

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@pleemirage @ProfMJCleveland Get Smart is so fun and funny! We
Purchased it on Amazon Prime!

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@ProfMJCleveland The Durrells in Corfu. Beautiful locations and fun characters.

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@FloridaHeritage @ProfMJCleveland Just started watching Rockford Files!! The locations in California are an awesome time capsule!

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

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@JamesHu27192912 This is so beautiful. Thank you

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Why did human beings ever build things like this?

Because their minds were ordered toward objective Beauty and Truth.

We must order our minds as they did — that's why we started this book club.

Our group is studying the great texts and ideas upon which Western Civilization was built, in dialogue with each other. We're reading what our ancestors read.

We recognize that a true education forms a mind to contemplate ultimate Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

We tackle a new classic text from the Western canon every 4-6 weeks, and meet biweekly to discuss.

We're about to start Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

If you'd like to be a part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project.

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[Jack @Jackkk]

Matthew McConaughey reveals the three words his dad said that changed his life

“I said dad, I don't want to go to law school anymore. I want to go to film school and after about a 5 second pause, he goes, ‘Are you sure that's what you want to do?’ I reply yes sir”

“Another long pause. Then I hear, ‘Well, don't halfass it’”

“I remember just beaming, hopping up just like Yes! My dad not only said okay. The way he said don't halfass it, it was also, okay. Let's go big boy. Own that shit. Get some leverage. Get some horsepower behind where you're going. Go do it”

“I remember to this day and I've learned this later I think from becoming a father, part of what I believe happened to him and why he said that to me that way on that call was the way that I asked him. I wasn't really asking. It was, ‘I don't want to go to law school, Dad. I want to go to film school.’ I didn't stutter. He heard his son saying this is what I want to do”

“What I think happened to him in that moment is what I think any father, any parent loves. You raise your kids in a certain way and you give them a guideline, a ladder to climb and here's the guidelines and if you do it this way, you're most likely going to have some success in life and it'll work out for you and then when we do it that way, we can be proud parents”

“But what do we really want to happen when our kids are out of the house and they're on their own? We kind of want them to call one day and go, ‘I'm breaking out. I'm going my own way.’ And as a parent, we go, as much as it may scare us, we're going, ‘Yes!’ I gave my kid the confidence and the courage and the foundation to say they're going to go their own way”

“In a way, I think every parent honors and loves that moment. I heard my dad, when he didn't hear me stutter, when he heard me directly say what I said. I wasn't really asking him. Even though I was out of respect asking him, the way I said it, I wasn't asking him and I think he felt that”

“Don't halfass it”

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@umiami91 @bradleybirzer I forgot Laura Ingalls Wilder! Part of childhood! I saw my sister read her books-then I also read them before they were due back at the library (which was the thing then). My Mom read Erma & laughed! Every kid should hear their Mom laughing while reading!!

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@bradleybirzer And E.B. White

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@bradleybirzer Favorites (no particular order):
Tony Hillerman
Flannery O’Connor
Sue Monk Kidd
(Tie) Henry David Thoreau & Jack London
Erma Bombeck

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@bradleybirzer And Nathaniel Hawthorne

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@bradleybirzer And Mark Twain

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@bradleybirzer And Willa Cather

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@CoffeewClassics And William Faulkner

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@CoffeewClassics Favorites (no particular order):
Tony Hillerman
Flannery O’Connor
Sue Monk Kidd
(Tie) Henry David Thoreau & Jack London
Erma Bombeck

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@CoffeewClassics And Edith Wharton

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@CoffeewClassics And Willa Cather

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes