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GRITO

Ventana literaria

GRITO

En esta quietud gravitante
no encuentro el lugar…
Dios escúchame
que la vida aprieta y fuerte.

LMML

SHOUT

In this gravitating stillness
I can’t find the place…
God hear me
that life presses and hard.

LMML

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The Free Manual For The Umbrella Project Is Here, Willing Hands Needed — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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The Project Do Better manifesto is a manual for community organizers which proposes a long term plan that they can modify for their own communities, and use to work together with other projects and communities to help build a unified movement for the Common Good. The book, Project Do Better: Enough[…]

The Free Manual For The Umbrella Project Is Here, Willing Hands Needed — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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Turkish Tuesday (Türkçesi salı günü): #LanguageLearning Tips — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Last week we saw Voting TuesDay, Sihirli Annem (s1e5) : #LanguageLearning to Build Empathy via Ethical Elders?    ,  but we’re taking a short break from Sihirli Annem  to look back at some tips for how these shows can help us learn languages:  Turkish Tuesdays in 12020HE (Holocene Era, on the Holocene Calendar) and […]

Turkish Tuesday (Türkçesi salı günü): #LanguageLearning Tips — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Happy National Raisin Bran Cereal Day! Enjoy Your Breakfast! — Tanooki Homemade Cafe

Happy National Raisin Bran Cereal Day!    As I share my recipes based on food holidays, I receive comments saying “oh I didn’t know that national day existed” and trust me, I am nodding and saying “yes it was actually my first time to know too” to each and every comment. Back in March 7th, […]

Happy National Raisin Bran Cereal Day! Enjoy Your Breakfast! — Tanooki Homemade Cafe

♫ Still ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

I’ve only played this one once, back in 2018, but it seemed to somehow fit in with my earlier morning post, On Friendship.  And who better to sing a sad song and yet bring a smile than Lionel Richie, right? This was written by Lionel Richie for a couple who decided to end their marriage […]

♫ Still ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

On Friendship — Filosofa’s Word

Please forgive my introspective and somewhat dark mood this morning … What is friendship?  Respect?  If I don’t respect you, can I still really call you a friend?  In times of strife, we learn who our friends really are, don’t we?  I and most of you have either lost friends or found relationships strained over […]

On Friendship — Filosofa’s Word