Category Archives: The Coffee Shop

TCS: “I Labour by Singing Light – Not for Ambition or Bread”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by wordcloud9

  Good Morning! _______________________________ “Be the change you wish  to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi ________________ “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and … Continue reading →

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TCS: Time Done is Dark – Scars and Tasting Sunshine

Posted on October 21, 2024 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! _______________________________ “Be fond of the man who jests at hisscars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.”– Pamela Hansford Johnson, English novelist – author of The Unspeakable Skipton ________________ Children … Continue reading →

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TCS: Suppose You Do Change Your Life – Floating Free – Nothing But Alive

Posted on October 14, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “Nothing endures but change.” — Heraclitus ________________ “who will join this standing up …we are the ones we have been waiting for”— June Jordan, from “Poemfor South African Women” ________________ Because things are the way they are, … Continue reading →

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TCS: To Be a Poet – Listen Unceasingly, Practice Silence, Resound of Possibilities

Posted on October 7, 2024 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! _____________________________ The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. – Seamus Heaney ________________ Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges. – Amanda Gorman ________________ “Poetry and beauty … Continue reading →

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TCS: I Was Silent When I Should Have Spoken

Posted on September 30, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “Choices are the hinges of destiny.” – Pythagoras ________________ “The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Task of Happiness and The Strength That Comes With Morning

Posted on September 23, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning! _______________________________ “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” ― Dolly Parton ________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” … Continue reading →

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TCS: Together, We Made Something Greater From the Difference

Posted on September 16, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning! _______________________________ “The American Dream belongs to all of us.” – Kamala Harris ________________ “There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They … Continue reading →

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TCS: As If Joy Were the Only Light We Needed to Follow

Posted on September 9, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” ― Aristotle ________________ “Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” ― Mary Oliver, from “Have You Ever … Continue reading →

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TCS: A Flower Lifts … That Sings a Fresh Song Every Dawning

Posted on September 2, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! _______________________________ I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” – Sylvia Plath ________________ “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There … Continue reading →

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TCS: In the City Where Money Was All

Posted on August 26, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “Fascism is capitalism plus murder. – Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, an exposé of the U.S. meatpacking industry and wage slavery ________________ “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the … Continue reading →

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