International Tiger Day was started in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit to promote a global system for protecting the natural habitats of tigers and support for tiger conservation issues. In 2018, the World Wildlife Federation estimated that the world population of tigers in the wild was approximately 3900. Almost 60% of the remaining tigers in the wild are in India.
‘Rule one: When playing with a tiger, do not struggle.’
– Polly Clark, from Tiger
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred,
there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
– Siddharta Gautama
Started on July 26, 1997, One Voice Day is a day that revolves around the world joining together and forgetting all the differences of race, religion, and boundaries. This day is all about committing to the cause of world peace so our future generations never have to experience war.
To read The Universal Peace Convenant, click:
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers
on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,
so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in
your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
– William Shakespeare (Hamlet – Act I, scene 3)“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders,
but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin“Those who have virtue always in their mouths,
and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which
emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is
insensible of the music.”
– Diogenes
Today is National Moon Day – because on this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.
Since then, millions of people have been born for whom this is just another day. But for those of us who are old enough to remember, it will always be one of those “where were you when” days.
My story is a little bit different, because I was far from home …
From the very beginnings of what George Washington called “the last great experiment for promoting human happiness,” there were women who questioned why they were not to share in what the Declaration of Independence called “unalienable rights” to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
In 1776, Abigail Adams famously wrote to her husband John:
“. . . in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
In 1844, Margaret Fuller’s book, Woman in the 19th Century, one of the wellsprings of the American feminist movement, was as much excoriated as it was praised, but it foreshadowed the events at Seneca Falls:
“. . . Many women are considering within themselves what they need that they have not, and what they can have if they find they need it. Many men are considering whether women are capable of being and having more than they are and have, and whether, if so, it will be best to consent to improvement in their condition . . .”
And she noted: “. . . The past year has seen action in the Rhode Island legislature, to secure married women rights over their own property, where men showed that a very little examination of the subject could teach them much ; an article in the Democratic Review on the same subject more largely considered, written by a woman, impelled, it is said, by glaring wrong to a distinguished friend, having shown the defects in the existing laws, and the state of opinion from which they spring . . .”
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I am reposting this poem to celebrate not only horses, but the great news about the appointment of our newest U.S. Poet Laureate.
Horses and humans have had a relationship for at least 5,000 years – it hasn’t always been a good one on our part, but there are few humans who can deny the attraction of their beauty and grace in motion.
Horse racing is one of the most ancient sports. Nomadic tribesmen in Central Asia have been racing horses since their earliest domestication. What is considered modern racing started in the 12th century, when English Knights returned from crusades with Arabian horses. The Thoroughbred horse came from breeding Arabian stallions with English mares, combining speed with endurance.
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