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

Posted on October 28, 2024 by wordcloud9

  Good Morning!

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“Be the change you wish
 to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable.
So did the divine right of kings. Any human power
can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Resistance and change often begin in art, and
very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

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TCS: Time Done is Dark – Scars and Tasting Sunshine

Posted on October 21, 2024 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning!

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“Be fond of the man who jests at his
scars, if you like; but never believe
he is being on the level with you.”
– Pamela Hansford Johnson,
 English novelist – author of
The Unspeakable Skipton

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Children show scars like medals.
Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.
A scar is what happens when
the word is made flesh.
– Leonard Cohen

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My mission in life is not merely
to survive, but to thrive; and to do so
with some passion, some compassion,
some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou

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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!

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“Nothing endures but change.”
— Heraclitus

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“who will join this standing up …
we are the ones we have been waiting for”
— June Jordan, from “Poem
for South African Women”

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Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are.
— Bertolt Brecht

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

Posted on October 7, 2024 by wordcloud9

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The poet is on the side of
undeceiving the world.
– Seamus Heaney

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Poetry has never been the language of barriers,
it’s always been the language of bridges.
– Amanda Gorman

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“Poetry and beauty are always making 
peace. When you read something
beautiful you find coexistence;
it breaks walls down.”
— Mahmoud Darwish,
Palestinian poet

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TCS: I Was Silent When I Should Have Spoken

Posted on September 30, 2024 by wordcloud9

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“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”
– Pythagoras

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“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 and sit down on the chair
that was offered, and so establish the right of
others long since and far distant in geography
to sit in the high seats.”
– Frances Perkins,
U.S. Secretary of Labor
(1933-1945)

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“May your choices reflect
your hopes, not your fears.”
– Nelson Mandela

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

Posted on September 23, 2024 by wordcloud9

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“The way I see it, if
you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with
the rain!”
― Dolly Parton

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We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence then is not
an act, but a habit.”
― Aristotle

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its
sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
– Corrie Ten Boom, watchmaker,
WWII rescuer of Jews, and
author of The Hiding Place

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TCS: Together, We Made Something Greater From the Difference

Posted on September 16, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning!

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“The American Dream belongs to all of us.”
– Kamala Harris

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“There are those who will say that the liberation
of humanity, the freedom of man and mind
is nothing but a dream. They are right.
It is the American Dream.”
– Archibald MacLeish,
Librarian of Congress (1939-1944),
poet, author, and playwright

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My dream is of a place and a time
where America will once again be
seen as the last best hope of earth.
– Abraham Lincoln

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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!

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We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence then is not
an act, but a habit.”
― Aristotle

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“Listen, are you breathing just
a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver, from
“Have You Ever Tried to Enter
the Long Black Branches?”

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“What you do makes a difference,
and you have to decide what kind
of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

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

Posted on September 2, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning!

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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

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
– Lord Byron,
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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“All water has a perfect memory
and is forever trying to get
 back to where it was.”
– Toni Morrison

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TCS: In the City Where Money Was All

Posted on August 26, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning!

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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
– Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle,
an exposé of the U.S. meatpacking
industry and wage slavery

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“Capitalism is the astounding belief
that the most wickedest of men will
do the most wickedest of things
for the greatest good of everyone.”
– John Maynard Keynes,
author of The Economic
Consequences of the Peace

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“It is a government of the people,
by the people, for the people no longer –
it is a government of corporations,
by corporations, for corporations.”
– Rutherford B. Hayes,
U.S. President (1877-1881)

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