Within twenty minutes of the statue arriving, I was having a conversation with a very kind police officer because someone called to report a homeless man sleeping on a park bench. Within twenty minutes...
Entering the $WRITE RACE 💨 on @viamirror
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“If you give freely, there will always be more. This is a radical proposition that runs so contrary to human nature, or at least to my nature, that I personally keep trying to find loopholes in it.” ~@ANNELAMOTT
At breakfast at a hotel in Bergen watching a family eating breakfast quietly. All reading, with quiet comments once in a rare while. I bet the same scene would incite rage and panic about the decay of family values if they were looking at phones...
“Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody’s large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior.” ~@ANNELAMOTT
Each generation is called worse than the previous:
1865: Kids grow up too fast!
1883: Kids read too much!
1909: Kids play too much!
1929: Kids are too egotistical!
1939: Kids are addicted to radio!
Podcast on topic: https://t.co/3rS3U8ET1a
122 year old article laments phone addiction:
“The telephone mania is among the latest negative results of modern inventions, and dread to their fellow citizens, although they themselves frequently live in blissful ignorance of their affliction” (1897) https://t.co/FcZFS9xiQ9
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Grateful for trailblazers like Lilly Singh! 🙌 From YouTube to the talk show circuit, she'll now be the only woman hosting Late Night on one of the Big 4 networks. 🙌@IISuperwomanII
Today I had every intention of sharing images of the buildings of #Pittsburgh lit up green for St. Patrick's Day. But then this sunrise happened, and it's too beautiful not to share. The way the light was radiating from behind the silhouetted skyline was absolutely incredible.