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“in the cosmic blink of our present existence…it is worth keeping the Voyager in mind as we find our capacity for perspective constricted by the stranglehold of our cultural moment… I don’t think it is possible to contribute to the present moment in any meaningful way while being wholly engulfed by it. It is only by stepping out of it, by taking a telescopic perspective, that we can then dip back in and do the work which our time asks of us.”

Maria Popova

#quotes #keepingon #perspective

@Madken65

Staying occupied during the occupation might just be one of my new mantras. 😉

Good morning ☕

Guy Venables @godfreychurch

My cartoon for Thursday's
@MetroUK

@MetroPicDesk
#USElection2024 #USAElections2024 #Putin #Trump2024

mike luckovich @mluckovichajc

“What did you do in the war for democracy, Mommy?”

“I sanewashed the words of a man who clearly had dementia and argued that a man who didn’t have dementia had Alzheimer’s. I said a woman with no criminal history was as bad as a convicted criminal. It was hard work. I’m proud.”

If you TRULY want to stop fascism:

• Stop visiting/subscribing to the NYT
• Ditto with WaPo
• Do not go to Fox
• Support Pro Publica
• Support Independent news

The Fourth Eatate failed us. Time to give our money to those who do REAL journalism, not act as stenographers or Nazi-Whisperers.

I am not trying to be a downer. Yet awareness is important.

Hope can be a hinderance.
Not always. But be aware.

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact your work will be apparently worthless and achieve no result at all, if not perhaps at times bring about its opposite. As you get used to this, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness and the truth of the work itself.”

~ Thomas Merton

It can't be sugar coated NO MO, it is what it is. America has spoken.

Looks like the world thinks we have gone mad too.