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FOTD 23rd September 2024: Yellow Flowers

I have no idea what these are, but they looked quite nice. so I had to take a photo. FOTD 23rd September 2024: Yellow Flowers

FOTD 23rd September 2024: Yellow Flowers

विरोधाभास / Paradox

कुछ खुद को इतने कमजोर पाते हैं, कि रात में सपनों से भी डर जाते हैं.. लेकिन गलत काम जब भी करते है, तो फिर वे न डरते हैं, न ही कांपते हैं… जो लोग अनजान…

विरोधाभास / Paradox

Column: Trump wants to turn the government into an ‘army of suck-ups’ – Los Angeles Times

…“It would turn much of the civil service into an army of suck-ups,” said Robert Shea, a self-described conservative Republican who was a top official in the White House Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.

Shea said he found civil servants’ untrammeled advice useful when he was a presidential appointee. “They told me when what I wanted to do was stupid. They advised me on whether it was legal or not,” he said. “But they also bent over backward to help me find better ways to do what we wanted to accomplish.”

The changes Trump has proposed, Shea said, “would mean that if you told your boss that what he or she was proposing was illegal, impractical [or] unwise, they could brand you as disloyal and terminate you…”

Source: Column: Trump wants to turn the government into an ‘army of suck-ups’ – Los Angeles Times

US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year | US book bans | The Guardian

More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws.

The survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled nationwide, from 3,362 the previous year.

At least 13 titles were banned for the first time, including Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which describes the journey of an enslaved person from Africa to the US, and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, the acclaimed semi-autographical work set in Harlem, New York.

Source: US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year | US book bans | The Guardian

Astronaut says, “We’re living a lie.” – Darcy Hitchcock

Floating around the planet in space often brings the Overview Effect, realizing how interdependent everything is, how fragile our planet is, what ultimately matters. Ron Garan spent 178 days in space and has a message for all of us. We see the world in this order: Economy, Society, Planet. But reversing the order using a technique called Dolly Zoom will help us change our perspective.

“When we see our planet from the perspective of space, certain things become undeniably clear. We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation and biodiversity loss, as standalone issues, when in reality, they’re just symptoms of the underlying root problem. And the problem is that we don’t see ourselves as planetary.”

Source: Astronaut says, “We’re living a lie.” – Darcy Hitchcock

Together We Can | From Behind the Pen

Togetherness, Unity

Image Credit: B S K

Let’s face it, there are some days that we try all we can to be positive but elements around us do their darndest to persuade us to throw in the towel and give up. Despite the mayhem that tries to make us believe that everything is going to hell in a handbasket, I still have faith and hope that those who continue to embody a sense of optimism, goodwill, love, and peaceful hearts will never let that go, nor succumb to the outrageous noise trying to tell us that the future looks grim.

If we, who continue to have hope in our hearts, will push the noise of division back, such chaotic noise can be reduced to a mere whisper that gets lost in our unshakeable hope and unbreakable joy!

TOGETHER

We can make a lasting memory with a good first impression.

TOGETHER

We can build what seems impossible and uplift where there are signs of weakness.

TOGETHER

We can spread a vibrant rainbow splashed with neverending love.

TOGETHER

We can give peace a surviving chance in a tumultuous world.

TOGETHER

We can conquer destructive and treacherous foes that seem unbeatable.

TOGETHER

There is so much more we can do to achieve, to reach, and to teach.

TOGETHER

No man, woman, or child should be an island, left all alone and forgotten.

TOGETHER

We can, and there is very little that we can’t do.

TOGETHER!

©2020 Kym Gordon Moore

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Source: Together We Can | From Behind the Pen