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Morning Open Thread: Do You Know How Kindness Grows?
If we but give it time, a work of art'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules — to make us whole again.– P. K. Page.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with...
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WOW2: November's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History – 11-24 through...
“If you’re a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, ‘Why are you so angry?”–Kara Walker, Black American artist and...
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Morning Open Thread: Freedom is a Dream - Rebels, Refugees, and Romantics
"I think of a hero as someonewho understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."— Bob Dylan.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose...
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WOW2: PART ONE - December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History –...
“You don’t know you’re makinghistory when it’s happening. Ijust wanted to do my job.”– Charity Adams Earley,Highest-Ranking Black AmericanWoman Officer of WWII – she hadto fight segregation and racism...
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WOW2: PART TWO - December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History –...
Part TWODecember 7 and 8_________________________There are so many trailblazing women this week, we had to continue the post here!_________________________The Day the Mountains Move.The day the...
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Morning Open Thread: If We Ever Should Come to Kindness ...
___________________________.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and...
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WOW2: December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History – PART ONE,...
“You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.”–Esther...
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WOW2: December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History – Part TWO,...
“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed ... It means facing a system that does not...
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Morning Open Thread: Not the Knowing, But the Knowing and Not Doing
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”― Grace...
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WOW2: December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History: 12-17 through...
“If we're not protecting our women and we're not protecting our girls and we're not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?”–Deb Haaland, first Native American...
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Morning Open Thread: A Landscape Made of Obstacles
“The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.”–Edwin Arlington...
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WOW2: December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History: 12-24 through...
“You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'”–Ingrid Betancourt,...
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Morning Open Thread: What Way Does the Wind Come?
“As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, forever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now;...
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WOW2: Women Trailblazers and Events in Our History - January 31, 2022
_______________________I posted my first WOW2 at Daily Kos on September 19, 2015. At that time, I only envisioned a once-a-month series, and I hoped I would be able to find the birth of one notable...
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Morning Open Thread: Over Weariness and Doubt ... the Soul Flung Out ... Rising
There’s a place where this poem dwells—it is here, it is now, in the yellow song of dawn’s bellwhere we write an American lyricwe are just beginning to tell.–Amanda Gorman,“In This Place (An American...
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WOW2 – January’s Women Trailblazers and Activists, 1-1 thru 1-9
“Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services,...
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Morning Open Thread: A New Year – Laughter that Cold and Blizzards Could Not...
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness”— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 1, Scene 1.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts...
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WOW2 – January’s Women Trailblazers and Activists, 1-10 thru 1-16
“I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.”–Gurinder...
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Morning Open Thread: What Do You Want to Remember?
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. –Alexander Smith, Scottish poet__________________________.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post...
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Religious Freedom Day: A Dangerous Silence in Public Schools - Updated
January 16 is National Religious Freedom Day. It celebrates the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, and passed by the Virginia Assembly on January 16, 1786. It became...
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