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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.

Filosofa's Word

This week (September 18th – 24th) is Banned Books Week.  No, it doesn’t mean we should ban books this week … quite the opposite!  My plan (and we all know how easily my plans are waylaid) is to do a couple of posts this week about the recent spate of banning books of all sorts by schools and libraries.  But for today, I just want to start by bringing awareness of Banned Books Week … how it started and why, and what the significance is today in the culture where whitewashing of history seems to be a political football.

Banned Books Week was founded in 1982 by First Amendment and library activist Judith Krug. Krug said that the Association of American Publishers contacted her with ideas to bring banned books “to the attention of the American public” after a “slew of books” had been banned that year…

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♫ Come Monday ♫

Filosofa's Word

Well … well, well, well … it’s that time of the week once again … Monday.  So, I thought maybe a song about Monday would be fitting this morning!  I considered Monday, Monday by the Mamas and the Papas, and I will play it soon, but I’ve already played it a few times before here.  Then I thought about the Carpenter’s Rainy Days and Mondays, but again, I’ve played it before and I wanted to do something different.  So, when I saw this one in the long list of “Monday songs” … I seized on it!  It’s one I’ve always liked and I hope you will too!

Jimmy Buffett wrote this song for his future wife, Jane, who he was missing while on tour. When he sings the first line, “Headed out to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend show,” he’s talking about a specific concert in 1973. …

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चाहत / Desire

Kaushal Kishore

उम्र के साथ
तस्वीरें भी पुरानी हो जाती हैं,
और यादें भी कुछ धुंधली,
पर चाहत नहीं…

🔅🔅🔅🔅🔅🔅

With age,
the images also become old,
and the memories also get blurred,
but not the desire…

–Kaushal Kishore

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