Tag Archives: Poets born in June

TCS: Restoring Compassion to the Nation

       Good Morning! ______________________________ “If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.” ― Dolly Parton ________________ “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you … Continue reading

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TCS: The Light That Without Darkness You Could Not See

 Good Morning! _______________________________ “… freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.” ― Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953 – 34th U.S. President ________________ “Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If … Continue reading

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TCS: Rather Deaf Than Blind?

   Good Morning! _______________________________ “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”– Mark Twain ________________ “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”― Arundhati Roy,Indian novelist and political activist ________________ Everything that needs to … Continue reading

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TCS: Wide Vistas of Improbability Become Possible

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?” ― Jane Goodall ________________ Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. ―  A. … Continue reading

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TCS: Wouldn’t You Be Devastated If They Only Serve Decaffeinated?

     Good Morning! ________________________________________ “The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”  “All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.” – Edith Sitwell, English poet ________________________ … Continue reading

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TCS: What is June Anyway?

Good Morning! _________________________________________ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser, poet, social justice activist_________________ “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: So May I Find My Place in This Shifting World

Good Morning! __________________________________________ You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert, French essayist whose work was all published posthumously _____________________________ “My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs … Continue reading

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