DeDee Bowen

A retired school librarian, I'm loving living in the country, learning to be a Granma, and keeping up with NASCAR.

[Trey Ferguson @PastorTrey05]

Good morning, beloved.

It’s hard to carry hope alone.

We need community. We need each other.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

Join the fight against government regulations on the books that you and your family are allowed to read in the United States by signing the petition today.

https://t.co/520WsCms56 via @everylibrary

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Greg Biffle and his family were aboard his jet when it crashed this morning in Statesville, NC, his close friend Garrett Mitchell confirmed

There were no survivors.

Biffle was an absolute HERO, and I personally worked with him in Western NC after Helene as he risked his own life using his personal helicopter to save COUNTLESS lives.

He delivered chainsaws, EpiPens, baby formula, fuel, and food to stranded families in inaccessible places surrounded by flood water, and asked for nothing from anybody.

This is a tremendous loss for our country. I’m so sick to my stomach over this.

Rest in peace, Greg, Cristina, Emma, and Ryder 🙏🏻

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

My uncle is in his 80's and can't walk or talk very well. We're now faced with the difficult task of deciding which wing of the Senate to send him to.

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

@GabrielSterling That’s amazing! ❤️

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

@ChrisCillizza @jamiedupree covers Georgia and several other states as well as Congress. A fine person and reporter. Tries really hard to be objective.

[Joy @joyklaprade]

Last year, I spent the 4th of July trying not to cry at a cookout. We were celebrating with friends from our new church, in a new state, where we’d been living for just one year. This new community was friendly, but all I could feel was grief.
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[Israel ישראל @Israel]

This Fourth of July we remember that there are 8 American citizens currently being held hostage by Hamas.

None of us are free, until all of them are free.

#BringThemHomeNow

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

*psst* You can sing Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death' to the tune from the Gilligan's Island theme.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵

1. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

Well worth reading.

[Robert Parham @kn_owled_ge]

My alternative commencement speech for @UVA students is now at @TheFP.

Here: https://t.co/qPrMKBWPZa

[Nancy French @NancyAFrench]

Someone told me chemo is like being hung over with the flu, but worse. Sometimes it’s almost like you are normal, except you can’t remember normal. /1

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

Good thread.

[(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman]

Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday.

Ship’s pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge.

Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatch…

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[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

OH. MY. GOD.

[David Cassidy @DPCassidyTKC]

In Acts 22, Paul relates that after his conversion he was “led by the hand” due to the temporary blindness his encounter brought about. Someone may need your hand today in their first steps with Jesus.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Whatever the Lord’s will for each of us in 2024 who follow Jesus, it will exceed our natural strengths, skills, talents, levels of experience, areas of expertise, intellectual acumen and worldly wisdom. The beautiful way Jesus set this faith thing up is that we can’t serve Jesus without Jesus. I pray this for all of us in 2024: more of Jesus.

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

@emzanotti That was quiet time for grandkids, all adults, and family dogs this afternoon!

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

“Who of us would want to celebrate Christmas correctly? Who will finally lay at the manger all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all pride, and all selfishness? Who is content to be lowly and to let God alone be high?”

-Bonhoeffer, 1933 Advent sermon

[DeDee Bowen @groundhog51]

@fangmous @casiej_mcdowell