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The Martin Butterfly
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor The Monarch butterfly considered to be the king of butterflies and the most beautiful of all butterflies in the world,” Panescu says. “They represent strength, endurance, spirituality, trust, sustaining what they believe, transformation, and evolution.” – Google … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Butterflies, Irene Fowler, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Niemoller, The Martin Buttlerfly
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TCS: The Starless Midnight and the Bright Daybreak
. Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ Justice in the … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Audre Lorde, Frederick Douglass, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Jr, Plato, TCS
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ON THIS DAY: April 3, 2020
April 3rd is Chocolate Mousse Day Film Score Day * Pony Express Day * National Tweed Day * Weed Out Hate Day World Party Day * _________________________________ MORE! Oscar Wilde, Sandra Boynton and Allen Ginsberg, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Hikaru Saeki, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Martin Luther King Jr, Nazia Hassan, Oscar Wilde, Sandra Boynton
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Alice Walker, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Hayden
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Word Cloud: EMPATHY (Black History Month Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’ve read a lot of statements by writers about writing, and they are all true, but many of them are only true for that one writer and their particular ‘process.’ I like this comment by Nikki Giovanni (1943 – … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, Empathy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Nikki Giovanni, Racism, Writing
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ON THIS DAY: January 15, 2019
January 15th is National Hat Day * Strawberry Ice Cream Day Fresh-Squeezed Juice Day _______________________________________ MORE! Molière, Sylvia Lawler and Martin Luther King, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Abigail Kelley Foster, Martin Luther King Jr, Mayawati Das, Molière, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Sylvia Lawler, Thomas Nast
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ON THIS DAY: February 25, 2018
February 25th is Clam Chowder Day Open That Bottle Night * Sword Swallowers Day Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day _______________________________________ MORE! Hiram Revels, Martin Luther King Jr and Dorothy Gaiter, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Anthony Burgess, Dorothy J. Gaiter, Hiram R. Revels, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Martin Luther King Jr, Millicent Fenwick, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: January 15, 2018
January 15th is Martin Luther King Day Fresh-Squeezed Juice Day Humanitarian Day * National Hat Day * World Religion Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Molière, Abigail Kelley Foster and Martin Luther King Jr, click
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