Far beyond…by Mágica Mistura – Mágica Mistura

Beyond, far beyond the hustle and bustle of everyday life and the setbacks of ordinary life. In a place that is up to you alone and no one else to care for… there lives the luminous flower of gratitude. Water it with affection and it will blossom into soft, fragrant petals of blessings.

✨️Mágica Mistura

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La famiglia Mahoney e i 272 schiavi venduti per finanziare nel 1838 una Università cattolica | le pagine dei nostri libri

The Mahoney family’s sacrifice took place one autumn day in 1838: at the dock in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, hundreds of people were forcibly loaded onto the huge slave ship Katherine Jackson bound for New Orleans, in the Deep South. Men and women of all ages were thus removed from their loved ones to be sold as objects, amid the cries of children torn from their mothers’ arms.

Anny Mahoney saw her sister and two children leave for the distant cotton plantations of Louisiana. For years, she and her husband had faithfully served one of Maryland’s richest men, Charles Calvert, and in return they had been promised that their family would never be torn apart. But then the economic situation changed and their fate was sealed.

In the book The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, “New York Times” journalist Rachel L. Swarns also talks about the involvement of the U.S. Catholic Church in that dark age.

Swarns does so by investigating the events of the Mahoney clan and reconstructing the terrible fate of all the two hundred and seventy-two slaves sold to the new masters of Louisiana in 1838 with the aim of financing Georgetown University in Washington with the proceeds. Entire families were uprooted and divided in exchange for $115,000, equivalent to about $4 million in today’s dollars.

The author, an African-American Catholic with other books on slavery to her credit, shows how in 1838 Georgetown University was able to save itself from financial collapse only through the sale of human beings to the landowners of Louisiana, at the time considered the worst exploiters of black slave labor.

Source: La famiglia Mahoney e i 272 schiavi venduti per finanziare nel 1838 una Università cattolica | le pagine dei nostri libri

Greek Study Notes, Page 24, and Actually Learning | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This page of notes was taken when we had finally advanced to the point of getting to the irregular verb group where the verb stems change, depending on the verb tense!  Cool!  I love how the ve…

Source: Greek Study Notes, Page 24, and Actually Learning | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Ser mulher não é função, viu? Deixem de ser pacificadoras, de ter que se sujeitar a tudo. No final, é vocês quem adoecem; é em vocês que desenvolvem o maior número de doenças ” por tudo aceitar”. Ser mulher não é função, é um privilégio. Por isso, respeite você, os seus sentimentos e parem de achar que são responsáveis pelas coisas ruins que lhes acontecem.

Um excelente domingo a todas!🌻

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Under The Qasr El Nil Bridge – yaskhan


Under the Qasr el Nil
There flows the Nile
And I wonder if I could 
fill my fountain pen 
with thoughts I have never written .

The day comes and goes 
and when night comes 
moon and stars sparkle 
in night’s shadow 

Time goes by without rest
I am left to fate’s behest 
yesterday will not come back 
very soon tomorrow will 
take a crack. 

my life goes by like ocean waves 
hitting the shore with perfect octaves 
I cannot slow life 
I am just trying to find the light. 

Desperate the hope of hope can be 
neither time nor life can stop this spree 
maybe a beacon will shine for me someday 
as I walk the Qasr el Nil, I can feel the wind convey 
that my time will come 
so I cling to hope and let it stay 
as I walk the Qasr el Nil bridge 
I feel a sense of courage 
when I hear the Nile’s fluid language..

Source: Under The Qasr El Nil Bridge – yaskhan

Peter Greene: Vouchers Are NOT “Saving Poor Kids from Failing Schools” | Diane Ravitch’s blog

A quarter-century after the launch of vouchers in Milwaukee, we now know a lot that we didn’t know then. The sales pitch was always humanitarian: vouchers, said its rightwing advocates, would “save poor kids from failing schools.” Except they didn’t. We now know, writes Peter Greene, that vouchers do not save poor kids from failing schools. They are a subsidy for students who were already in private and religious schools. Maybe that was their purpose all along…

Source: Peter Greene: Vouchers Are NOT “Saving Poor Kids from Failing Schools” | Diane Ravitch’s blog