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Joined Jan 2021
The librarian is in 🐝
boosted
The librarian is in 🐝
boosted
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Guess I've always thought of CoSo as a kind of space ship--designed by J and launched into orbit as an escape from the toxicity of other social media environments.
Here, we have every tool we need to cultivate and curate our own best experiences, without outside destructive elements.
Wherever we go, there we are--bringing our fallibility and faults as imperfect humans.
But we have to TRY--to manage in order to protect this rare and precious place.
We can do it, all of us.
Today's #BigBand #Standard is "Going my way" by Bing Crosby, 1944.
I'm so glad that I found the #CoSoCommunity to walk the Dreamers Highway -- happiness may not always be down the line, but we are better off together. And the smiles you gather do look well on you!
https://youtu.be/rwXYIAgk12E
#FriedmanFriday
Graduation season!
#ElizebethSmithFriedman received an honorary PhD from her alma mater, @Hillsdale, in 1938.
The only time Elizebeth used the title is in an official response to a letter from OSS leader William Donovan.
#MarshallFoundationLibrary
Good morning, @LlamaMountainStudioArts!
What a mess! I have two fat trash pandas getting into my compost; I saw them last night. Tomorrow project will be piling the compost in the wheelbarrow and laying chicken wire down and then restaking the composter.
I want those little guys messing somewhere else soon so they won't be into my garden. Getting into my garden is a good way to become a coonskin cap; my family works hard for that food.
Good morning, @Mandypar! Happy Friday! I see a young lady who turned 9 had her photo in the papers. Seems full of aplomb for one so young; I recall being so awkward at that age. I am still awkward at my age!
What's on your schedule today?
Good morning @Minholkin! A small flower. No, not Lucy, who is not small but might think shes a flower, and kept me company on the porch last night. The peony beginning to bloom behind her. It, like Lucy, is a rescue. I dug it up and moved it from deep shade and it rewards me with lovely pink flowers.
A flower rescue for you today.
Good Friday morning!
Already 65 F with a high of 90 F. So warm for this time of year.
Tonight is the 3rd of four baseball games this week. The Salem Red Sox have won 2 home games so far this year; neither were we at. Haven't seen a win yet.
That's the weather from the ancient Blue Ridge of VA.
Be kind today.
At 2:30 EDT today, my final child finished the last grad school assignment.
The 30 years of college (bachelor and master) for our family of 5 have yielded a teacher, 3 librarians, and a data scientist.
My family is all about information.
And BTW? Whew.
Today's #BigBand #Standard is "The White Cliffs of Dover" from British favorite Vera Lynn from 1942.
I know I have shared this before, but the wishes of more than 80 years ago still ring true -- "love and laughter, and peace ever after, tomorrow -- when the world is free."
May these words bring hope yet again.
https://youtu.be/WAaxkAgVkHQ
My growing-up memories of May Day were less festival and more tanks parading through Red Square.
That places me in time.
#WednesdayWisdom
"I learned ... the urgent necessity of frequent visits. I could sense their reactions and I could see how they felt ... which we at headquarters did not really feel so much."
Gen. George C. Marshall to biographer Forrest Pogue
The first of many visits that Marshall and Field Marshal Sir John Dill made to view training during the war -- Camp Blanding, FL, May 1, 1942.
#MarshallFoundationLibrary
Good morning @Minholkin!
Beauty for you and our community. This spring's daffodils up the mountain at the old homestead.
Good morning @LlamaMountainStudioArts!
More construction today?
Good morning, @Mandypar!
I have been reading that cities in England are facing budget shortfalls similar to those in the U.S. Services I took for granted growing up like parks and libraries are on the chopping block with no end in sight to the less-services for more taxes cycle.
The only way I can deal with the frustration is to try to make a difference in my tiny corner of the world; I volunteer on the local fair board as who doesn't love the fair?
Good morning! Slightly cooler at 50 F, with brilliant sun and a too-warm May 1 high of 85. Good baseball weather, though; game tonight.
That's your weather from the ancient VA Blue Ridge.
Be kind today.
I need a physical copy of the complete Saturday, April 20 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Willing to pay postage.
When art imitates life -- a photo of Gen. George and Mrs. Katherine Marshall at President Roosevelt's inaugural in January 1945; with the same pose on the cover of Katherine's book Together published two years later in January 1947.
#MarshallFoundatonLibrary
The librarian is in 🐝
I'm a librarian.
Real science. Real facts. Real information.
Sources matter.
Joined Jan 2021