Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

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Today is the day, in 1931, on which this Nobel Laureate and exemplary writer was born. I look back to the words of Toni Morrison, that we need dreamers to dream of new possibilities for shaping our world, new ways of being, ways that move us toward caring for each other, toward making it[…]

Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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Updated repost: Parashat Mishpatim, “Na’aseh VeNishmah” as Do First and Buy-In Later, via Education?

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This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Mishpatim (פרשת מִשְׁפָּטִים), the 6th in the book of Shemot/Exodus, and the 18th weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle. This year, 5783, we looked at last week’s parashah, Parashat Yitro from a Public Health point of view. As with last year, this week, traditional congregations (and maybe a few Masorti/Conservative Movement folks) will read of the inter-generational (in theory, or at least in Midrashic legend) acceptance of[…]

Parashat Mishpatim, “Na’aseh VeNishmah” as Do First and Buy-In Later, via Education? — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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Marii Freire

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” Amor não machuca, não causa tristeza, nem deixa hematomas pelo corpo. Muitas mulheres confundem amor com maus tratos, o que é uma atitude imperdoável. “

Marii Freire. Sinal Vermelho

Marii Freire. MULHER Do ostracismo à luta pelos direitos nos dias atuais. 1ª ed. Maringá: Viseu, 2022

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Santarém, Pá 18 de fevereiro de 2023

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Lies, Lies, And Still More Lies

Filosofa's Word

Yesterday came big news … now hold onto your hats, ‘cause this is going to shock you … ready?

Fox ‘News’ Lies!!!

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s nightly newsletter explains …

Dominion Voting Systems is suing FNC for defamation after FNC personalities repeatedly claimed that the company’s voting machines had corrupted the final tallies in the 2020 election. The filing today shows that those same personalities didn’t believe what they were telling their viewers, and suggests that they made those groundless accusations because they worried their viewers were abandoning them to go to channels that told them what they wanted to hear: that Trump had won the election.

The quotes in the filing are eye-popping:

On November 10, 2020, Trump advisor Steven Bannon wrote to FNC personality Maria Bartiromo: “71 million voters will never accept Biden. This process is to destroy his presidency before it even starts; IF it…

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♫ If You Could Read My Mind ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

Today’s song is brought to you courtesy of our friend Keith, who planted numerous earworms yesterday with his fun post titled, “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then – an encore post”. Check it out if you haven’t already seen it! And now, for today’s offering …


Written by Lightfoot and released in 1970, this song was inspired by the breakup of his first marriage. In the liner notes of his boxed set Songbook, he describes it as “A song about the failure of marriage.”

At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he performs the lyrics with a slight change now: the line “I’m just trying to understand the feelings that you lack” is altered to “I’m just trying to understand the feelings that we lack.” He has said in an interview that the difficulty with writing songs inspired by personal stories is that there…

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सुंदरता / Beauty

Kaushal Kishore

उम्र के साथ
सुंदरता खत्म नहीं होती,
झुर्रियां पड़ सकती हैं चेहरे पर
दिल पर कदापि नहीं…

😍 😍 😍

With age
beauty does not end,
wrinkles may appear on the face
but never on the heart…

–Kaushal Kishore

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