Harry Belafonte (RIP), James Baldwin, Marlon Brando & Sidney Poitier Talk About Civil Rights, 1963 | Open Culture

Source: Harry Belafonte (RIP), James Baldwin, Marlon Brando & Sidney Poitier Talk About Civil Rights, 1963 | Open Culture

Download Free Coloring Books from Nearly 100 Museums & Libraries | Open Culture

We here at Open Culture heartily endorse the practice of viewing art, whether in a physical museum, in the pages of a book, or online. For some, however, it tends to have one serious shortcoming: all the colors are already filled in. If you’re itching to use your own colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, or other tools of choice on drawings, paintings, and a variety of other works besides in the possession of well-known art institutions, these past few months are a time of year to savor thanks to the initiative Color Our Collections.

Source: Download Free Coloring Books from Nearly 100 Museums & Libraries | Open Culture

Not Only For The Birds (Murisopsis Scavenger Hunt)

The Twisting Tail

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

I am moved to great heights, oh woe is me
Persuaded in the pursuit of a thrill
My racing mind soon comes to realise
This is not where sane people should be
Coursing bone deep I feel a sudden chill
I focus elsewhere, happier in lies
Surveying the grandeur of all I see
Totaling the cost of the obscene bill
Pox on the idiom, ‘reach for the skies’
I skydived and all I got was dizzy


Dizzy by murisopsis – a poem of 10 lines with 10 syllables per line with a rhyme scheme of: a/b/c/a/b/c/a/b/c/a. Requires words of motion be included in the poem. BONUS: Use the word dizzy.


The first recorded parachute jump was made by André-Jacques Garnerin on October 22, 1797. He jumped from a hydrogen balloon, more than 3,000 feet above Paris.

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Good People Doing Good Things — Ginny Schrappen

Filosofa's Word

This week’s good people post is a bit different than my usual fare, but it’s a story that touched my heart, even brought a tear to my eye, and I hope you will find it inspiring, too.

Ginny Schrappen was in her mid-fifties back in 1998 when one day her church deacon handed her a letter.  It was from a man in prison who was just hoping to find someone … anyone … who would take a few minutes to write back to him.  Ginny did write back and their letter-writing continued for 25 years until earlier this month when Ginny finally got to meet her long-term pen pal face-to-face, hug-to-hug.

Ginny’s pen pal is Lamar Johnson, a man who was wrongfully convicted in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994.  Johnson had been convicted of murder for the October 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd, who was shot dead on his front…

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सीख / Learning — Kaushal Kishore

क्या, कब और कैसे बोलना है,यह तो हम आसानी से सीख जाते हैं,लेकिन क्या, कब और कैसे नहीं बोलना है,यह सीखने में हमारी पूरी जिंदगी खप जाती है… 🗣️️🙊🗣️ We easily learnwhat, when and how to speak,but it takes a lifetime to learnwhat, when and how not to speak… –Kaushal Kishore

सीख / Learning — Kaushal Kishore