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WOW2: A Special Announcement
____________________________________“I think here I will leave you.It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.”—Louise Glück,from Faithful and Virtuous...
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Morning Open Thread: The Road of Change Is Before You Always
________________________________________Another Kind of Christmasby Nona Blyth Cloud.A bright parched sky over cold cracked earth Our north wind stole the last tear from air’s face Abandoning a...
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WOW2: December 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 12-25 thru 12-31 - Final
___________________________“You don't master your fear.You're not able to say, 'I'm notgoing to be scared.' But whatyou can do is say, 'OK, I'm veryvery scared, but I have to dothis and this and...
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Morning Open Thread: The Phœnix Liberty, Bright As the Sun and Unabashed
______________________________________New Year's Resolution:To tolerate fools more gladly,provided this does not encouragethem to take up more of my time.–James...
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Morning Open Thread: The Terror of the Truth of Things
______________________________________“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”―Jane...
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Morning Open Thread: The Tenderness Has Run Out. Everything Falters.
______________________________________“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps...
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Religious Freedom Day: "O Taste and See"
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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Morning Open Thread: Will You, Won't You, Will You, Won’t You Join the Dance?
______________________________________Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.─ André Gide,1947 Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Morning Open Thread: Half-Forgotten Truths and Reconsidering Happiness
______________________________________“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”—Peter Handke, 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner______________________________________.Welcome...
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Morning Open Thread: One Music With a Thousand Cadences
______________________________________“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and...
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Morning Open Thread: Stars Dazzle in Some Other Part of This World
______________________________________“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”― Nicole Krauss,The History of...
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Morning Open Thread: When I Was Harmless and Didn’t Know Any Better
______________________________________“the stars were always what we knewthey were: the exit wounds of every misfired word.”–Ocean Vuong,To My Father / To My Future...
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Morning Open Thread: I Heard This Morning On The News
______________________________________“We are not afraid to entrust the Americanpeople with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas,alien philosophies, and competitive values.For a nation that is afraid to let...
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Morning Open Thread: Sounds We Cannot Hear But Understand in Motion
______________________________________“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”–Lyndon Johnson, 36th U.S....
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Morning Open Thread: How I Became a Woman – Poems for Women’s History Month
______________________________________“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody.Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable....
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Morning Open Thread: The World of the Knowing
______________________________________“Few people have to watch their country die. I have had that dubious privilege, and I can tell you that it comes not as a rebel shout but as a sly whisper. The...
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Morning Open Thread: Anything Could Be Real … All the Frontiers End With a...
______________________________________“Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say whatbooks may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens?...
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Morning Open Thread: Choose Your Bread and Your Company
______________________________________“For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the...
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Morning Open Thread: Everything That Can't Be Owned
___________________________“Once a government is committed tothe principle of silencing the voice ofopposition, it has only one way to go,and that is down the path of increasinglyrepressive measures,...
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Morning Open Thread: Oh to Walk My Way With Kindness
___________________________“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”―George R.R. Martin,A Clash of...
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