The Oblation|خیرات – A Voice from Iran

There lived a poor man. He was too old to work, and his living depended on other people’s support.

One day he heard a very rich man in his town is donating food. He walked a long way to get to the rich man’s house and knocked on the door.

The rich guy opened the door angrily and looked at the poor man’s ripped clothes and thick dirty hair. He felt disgusted and asked: “What do you want, old man? I think you have lost your way!”

The poor man replied kindly: “I heard you are donating food to poor people, that’s why I came to your door.”

The rich man said: “Whoever passed the news didn’t do a good job. My dog was sick, and the vet said she might go blind. I vowed to God if my dog wouldn’t go blind, I would feed a truly blind person. But unfortunately, I can’t help you because you are not blind.”

The poor man felt so bad, regretted his visit, and said: “Actually, the truly blind person is me. I was too blind to see a selfish, spoiled person like you would ever help others unless there is a benefit in it for you.

You prayed to God for the cure of your dog, and in return, you put specific obligations. People like you take advantage of everything. You make deals even with God.”

Source: The Oblation|خیرات – A Voice from Iran

Restituição – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Tempo de sentir com as pontas dos dedos que os celeiros estão fartos, não do que a traça come, mas do que nos faz suspirar e sentir o bálsamo genuíno do que é ligado a terra e ao céu; e nada mais que isso, – nada mais que traz a beleza desse refrigerio para alma –  puramente psíquico, pondo fim a escassez das súplicas. “

 

Marii Freire. Restituição

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 11 de julho de 2024

 

Source: Restituição – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

IRS collects more than $1 billion in back taxes from wealthy under Biden’s IRA – UPI.com

The Treasury Department and the IRS announced Thursday they have collected more than $1 billion has been collected in past-due taxes from high-income, high-wealth Americans.

The collections were made possible under the Biden administration Inflation Reduction Act, the agencies said in a joint statement.

Source: IRS collects more than $1 billion in back taxes from wealthy under Biden’s IRA – UPI.com

Vaa yks syän; Vain yksi sydän; Only One Heart | Yelling Rosan muistikirja

Here is one of my poems in Ingrian, Finnish, and English.

Igrian

Finnish

English

Vaa yks syän

Vain yksi sydän

Only One Heart

Monet ovat kirjat

Monet ovat kirjat

There are so many books

nevvoja täyn,

neuvoja täynnä,

That guide you

mut vaa yks

mutta vain yksi

But only one

ono syän

on sydän

Heart

ken tiitää

joka tuntee

That knows

siun.

sinut.

You.

© Yelling Rosa
2015-11-15
© Yelling Rosa
2015-11-15
© Yelling Rosa
2015-11-15

Source: Vaa yks syän; Vain yksi sydän; Only One Heart | Yelling Rosan muistikirja

The Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling: “No One Can Guarantee that Trump Is the Last Maniacal Sociopath Who Will Want Power in America” – DER SPIEGEL

Renowned Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe is appalled by the recent Supreme Court ruling granting U.S. presidents immunity for “official acts.” He believes the step to a dictatorship is a small one.

Source: The Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling: “No One Can Guarantee that Trump Is the Last Maniacal Sociopath Who Will Want Power in America” – DER SPIEGEL

Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House: Trump – Los Angeles Times

Donald Trump speaks, a huge image of himself as a backdrop, as supporters hold signs, one reading "Joe Biden, you're fired"

Former President Trump, in Phoenix last month, has repeatedly proved himself unfit for office on a scale far worse than a shaky debate performance.

(Rick Scuteri / Associated Press)

It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier. Trump fomented the Jan. 6 insurrection, shows contempt for the rule of law and shamelessly lies in pursuit of more power. He’s an authoritarian who admires murderous despots, wants to jail his political enemies and has publicly flirted with declaring himself a dictator on his first day back in office…

Source: Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House: Trump – Los Angeles Times

Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar | Open Culture

maxresdefault.jpgAs a young guitar player, perhaps no one inspired me as much as Jimi Hendrix, though I never dreamed I’d attain even a fraction of his skill. But what attracted me to him was his near-total lack of formality—he didn’t read music, wasn’t trained in any classical sense, played an upside-down right-handed guitar as a lefty, and fully engaged his head and heart in every note, never pausing for an instant (so it seemed) to second-guess whether it was the right one. I knew his raw emotive playing was firmly rooted in the Delta blues, but it wasn’t until later in my musical journey that I discovered his return to more traditional form after he disbanded The Experience and formed Band of Gypsys with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. While most of the recordings he made with them didn’t see official release, they’ve appeared since his death in compilation after boxset after compilation, including one of the most beloved of Hendrix’s blues songs, “Hear My Train A Comin’.”

Source: Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar | Open Culture