Monthly Archives: July 2023

TCS: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs

Good Morning! ______________________________ “The self is the least of it.  Let our scars fall in love.”― Galway Kinnell,American Poet___________________ “We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place … Continue reading

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TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You

Good Morning! _______________________________ “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” … Continue reading

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TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road

Good Morning! ___________________________________________ To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go – Mary … Continue reading

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TCS: For the Love of Dogs

Good Morning! __________________________________________ I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs. – James Thurber _____________ The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the … Continue reading

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TCS: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”– Johann Georg Hamann_____________ “Lock up your libraries if you like; butthere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that youcan set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room … Continue reading

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