Monthly Archives: January 2024

TCS: Half-Forgotten Truths and Reconsidering Happiness

Posted on January 29, 2024 by wordcloud9

  Good Morning! ______________________________ “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke, 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner ________________ Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker, author … Continue reading →

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TCS: Will You, Won’t You, Will You, Won’t You Join the Dance?

Posted on January 22, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them. — Nicole Lyons, author of HUSH ________________ Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Tenderness Has Run Out. Everything Falters.

Posted on January 15, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “Nobody has ever measured, even  poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald ________________ “Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you’re … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Terror of the Truth of Things

Posted on January 8, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”— Mark Twain ________________ “Seldom, very seldom, does completetruth belong to any human disclosure;seldom can it happen that something isnot a little disguised … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Phœnix Liberty, Bright As the Sun and Unabashed

Posted on January 1, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall.” — Carol Ann Duffy ________________ New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up … Continue reading →

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