Caleb Brown 🎨

Long Live Love 🖤

[Caleb Brown 🎨 @calebs_canvas]

I’m me 🤞🏽🖤

[Caleb Brown 🎨 @calebs_canvas]

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[AymenZero🇩🇿 @AymZerrouki]

Mr Krabs: you didn't get the job, you're just a kid
Patrick:

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

Do the next right thing

[Keegan Hall @KeeganHall]

Today, the Obama Presidential Library officially opens to the public.

I created this drawing of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and had the honor of presenting it to President Obama through Washington Governor Jay Inslee.

What I never expected was that the artwork would become part of the permanent Obama Presidential Library collection, where it now resides in the National Archives.

As an artist who started with a pencil and a dream, it’s hard to put into words what that means.

Grateful for the journey, the opportunities, and everyone who has supported my work along the way.

It’s pretty incredible to think that a pencil drawing created in my studio would become part of presidential history.

#DreamBIG @BarackObama @MichelleObama @ObamaFoundation

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

.@BarackObama: More than 40 years ago, I arrived here in Chicago, entering the city through the very spot where this center now stands. I had been inspired by the civil rights movement and I knew I wanted to make a difference. I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to do that, but I was possessed with this abiding faith that if we could give people more of a say and bridge some of the differences that drove us apart, then we could build an America where everyone counts and has a fair shot.

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

The first-ever official portrait featuring Barack and Michelle Obama together has been unveiled at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. 🎨✨

What a masterpiece! ❤️

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together has been unveiled and it's absolutely stunning.

Look closely at the tiny components of this piece...

"Tradition is not untouchable. We can own it, we can shape it, we can move it the way we need," Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby told Harper's Bazaar.

The artwork is one of 28 pieces that have been commissioned for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which opens later this week on Juneteenth.

Harper's explained that Akunyili Crosby’s masterpieces are "technically complex" and while they are designed to "resemble conventional figurative paintings at a distance" they are actually "composed of dense layers of embedded images, in something like a visual archive."

If you look, you should be able to spot a volume of the Harvard Law Review that was published while Barack Obama was the journal's first Black President. You'll also spot Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book," which was the first album that the former First Lady ever owned.

“Yes, he was the President. But she is incredible," said Akunyili Crosby.

“Nostalgia for the past is always a dicey thing. But that does not mean it wasn’t important for me to kind of touch upon the feelings we all had—and the hope," the artist added.

Now, more than ever, we miss the days when we had a dignified, compassionate, intelligent First Couple.

What can you spot in the portrait?

Please like and share if you love this artwork!

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama has just been unveiled

[True Vanguard @TheTrueVanguard]

The only comment I’ll make is this. One cannot praise Jesus and then in their next breath insult a woman for literally no reason other than to stir up hate.

American Christians have a responsibility to put Christ above politics and openly condemn things like this.

Jesus went out of His way to visit the most hated woman among outcasts, a woman considered gross, a “half-breed Jew,” a sub human among other sub humans. And He spoke with kindness and patience, affirming her worth and offering her communion with God.

What we’re seeing on screens and hearing on podcasts today from Christian influencers and celebrities who claim Christ is nothing short of using His name in vain.

We have to be better.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The Obamas unveil their first-ever commissioned portrait together, painted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library.

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

Elegance, Class, Beauty and Intelligence. They hate you because they could never achieve a fraction of what you have achieved. Much Respect Forever First Lady #MichelleObama

[Zach Berman @ZBerm]

The first time Jalen Hurts went to a book fair, he was drawn to a book titled, “By My Brother’s Side.”

“At this point, I’m just seeing two Black kids on the cover in football uniforms with a football in their hand,” Hurts said.

It was by Tiki and Ronde Barber, but he didn’t know them.

“I saw them as authors,” Hurts said. “I didn’t see them as football players.”

Hurts, the author, read his books to kids that same age in Camden. More on @TheAthletic:

https://t.co/x0zEDonC6m

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

Jeff Galloway, a 1972 U.S. Olympian and beloved coach, but perhaps best known for teaching the world that slowing down was the secret to going further, has died at the age of 80. 🕊️

His revolutionary run-walk-run method (affectionately known around the world as “Jeffing”) transformed marathon running from an elite pursuit into something beautifully ordinary, accessible to anyone willing to lace up their shoes.

He survived a devastating heart attack in 2021, where his heart stopped for four and a half minutes before five stents brought him back. Doctors credited his decades of endurance training with helping keep him alive. True to form, he responded not by resting on his laurels, but by relearning to walk and then planned to return to the marathon. Before an injury forced him to scratch from last December’s Honolulu Marathon, Galloway was set to become the first person to complete a marathon in eight consecutive decades. He was planning to return in 2026.

“My mission now, at the age of 80-plus, is to show that people can do things that are normally not done, and can do them safely,” he told The New York Times last month.

Galloway’s Book on Running is considered probably the best-selling running coaching book of all time.

Jeff Galloway opened up running to everyone. He is survived by every single person who ever doubted themselves, took their first step and made it to the other side of a finish line that they initially didn’t think would be possible. ♥️

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

When you realise that going slow is the secret to a regulated nervous system.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A mentor once told me: “You don’t need a dramatic turning point. You need to stack calm, steady weeks of keeping simple promises you make to yourself. Just do a few right things longer than everyone else is willing to. You'll be shocked how far that takes you."

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.

[Gospel ✝️💎 @DITR_Gospel]

Act Like You Know

LaShun Pace 🕊️ (1996)

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[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Be the person who surprises others with your genuine interest in them, the respect you extend, and your disregard for unnecessary formalities or status symbols.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Most people tell themselves that if they felt better, they’d do the thing—when it’s actually doing the thing that makes you feel better.

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

Welcome to Rocky Top, National Champion @owingsderek! 🍊

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