Your weekly Southern reading of the KJV.
Leviticus 19:15-18
Not going to lie… I almost skipped Leviticus. But every book means every book, so here you go.
Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.
The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.
Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.
“If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth...and I also was born with a great love of trees."
- Tolkien (1966 Interview)
"... the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time."
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Fir Forest (1891)
🎨 Ivan Shishkin
I was totally wrong. On my first bike ride with my baby in the new bike trailer, we came across a Little Free Library along our wooded bike trail. There were some baby books inside, so we took a break to read. She loved it.
Touching grass softened this Twitter-hardened heart.