And there are people still in darkness and they just can’t see the lightIf you don’t say it’s wrong, then that says it’s right ~Mann, Weil, and Russell For Music Monday, Solomon Burke backed up by the Blind Boys of Alabama:| The Opposite of Indifference
The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power. ~Tom Malinowski A little explanation of behavior from Abbie Richards:| The Opposite of Indifference
The best part of my day was the one I spent either in listening to stories from my elders or reading them. ~Sudha Murty Happy Poetry Friday! As someone who loves talking with long-lived people about their histories, today’s poem really spoke to me. A Letter to Great-Gramma Belleby Mary Jo Balistreri Your life stretched […]| The Opposite of Indifference
Outsider art is anything created by people who are self-taught and operate outside the boundaries of the traditional art world. ~Alice Wilson Outsider art for Art Thursday. Everything from paintings and painted buildings to stone sculptures and shell mosaics. Peces pescados by Mexican painter Susana Noriega. Façade de l’eglise de Menil-Gondouin, Orne (I like that […]| The Opposite of Indifference
Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive. ~Rodney Crowell A love song for Music Monday. Jesse Gold and Katie Tupper:| The Opposite of Indifference
IDW Publishing and DC Entertainment created Love Is Love, a graphic novel sold to raise money for the [Pulse nightclub shooting] victims. The novel became a New York Times best seller and more than $165,000 was raised. Through Equality Florida, the proceeds were donated to the OneOrlando Fund. ~Wikipedia Happy Poetry Friday! Hope you are […]| The Opposite of Indifference
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s true we haven’t reached the autumnal equinox yet, but it’s autumn already in my heart. So grateful for cooler weather! I have been enjoying getting out with our dogs. For Art Thursday, we have Japanese art about fall, specifically […]| The Opposite of Indifference
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~Carl Sagan Elle Cordova:| The Opposite of Indifference
On Trump’s pardon of [Ross] Ulbricht: “…It’s doubtful anyone within the United States has trafficked in drugs on the scale that Ulbricht has.” ~The Nation The current U.S. r…| The Opposite of Indifference
As I sang hymns…This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. ~Krista Tippett Happy Poetry Friday! Two poems by Joseph Fasano today. Some teachers share “For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” […]| The Opposite of Indifference
The oldest known butterfly is Protocoeliades kristenseni from the Palaeocene aged Fur Formation of Denmark, approximately 55 million years old. ~European Journal of Entomology via Wikipedia Ha…| The Opposite of Indifference
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ~Steve Martin Svalbard Sunset by Baratipour Hi folks! Happy Poetry Friday! I’m back from my trip and trying to get caught up. Denise has gener…| The Opposite of Indifference
No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up. ~Sylvie Guillem Happy Poetry Friday! Thank you to beloved human Laura Purdie Salas for permission to share her letter-poem from P…| The Opposite of Indifference