Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines

Words from Tolkien

Where will wants not, a way opens. — J.R.R. Tolkien and this perenniel beacon: It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years … Continue reading

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History Redux

It’s hard not to have flashbacks to the days of hearings re Agnew and Nixon in the Watergate days. For those who weren’t alive then, it was riveting and scary and comforting, the later because it seemed without much doubt … Continue reading

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Haiku Day – Round Two

@realDonaldTrump • we have to hold YOU to Truth • not the media. #RESIST #IMPEACH #Haikuday #NaPoWriMo #haiku @realDonaldTrump your lies are so thick and sad they rate a haiku @realdonaldtrump: a kind universe has made you five syllables.

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Proactive vs Reactive

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Starting April*

This came up as a memory and one that’s good to recall. These days we need all the encouragement we can get.  I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone … Continue reading

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