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Even in the midst of winter the master exuded a warm glow, redolent of Mediterranean orange groves. In a dark season, his presence cheered the peasants with memories of summer. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry... In looking back we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.”—Maria von Trapp d 3/28/87 Inspiration 4 Sound of Music
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Same from a showman who previously campaigned on “saving Christmas” (bigger and better than ever before). We will have hit bottom when he claims to have saved Ordinary Time.
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Hero: Rev Joseph E Lowery. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/jo…
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I asked Jim Douglass the same thing. He didn't know, but he thinks that something is in the air. "Dylan gets it," he said. Maybe a kairos moment when it becomes possible at last to confront "the unspeakable." (Available in Kindle edition at Amazon.com)
I just listened to Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul” & besides being reminded that one of America’s greatest poets is still w/ us, I now want to know if Dylan has been reading Jim Douglass’ JFK & THE UNSPEAKABLE? Any idea, @RobertEllsberg?
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Roaming the empty halls of the manor, the master spoke of his eagerness to “save Easter” and get all the peasants back to work. “The Estate was not built to be shut down!” he said. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“We need a chief executive whose judgment is not just sound, but exceptional.There are some 325 million people in America, and it’s hard to think of more than a handful who are more lacking in these qualities than Donald Trump.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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“Trump is not only proposing a celebration of the Resurrection that would fill graves. He is implying one way to “own the libs” is by further exposing the elderly to a cruel illness...urging his “pro-life” followers to increase their tolerance for death.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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#MastersofSocialIsolation #11. In 1964 Nelson Mandela arrived at the prison in Robben Island to begin his life sentence. Altogether he would spend 18 of his 27 yrs in prison there, confined to a small 7 x 9 ft cell, with a straw mat, blanket, and a bucket for toilet.
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Allowed 1 visitor and 1 500-word letter every 6 mos. Each day he worked 4 hrs in silence breaking rocks in a limestone quarry. “Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and yrs blend into each other.”
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“Every day is for all practical purposes like the day before: the same surroundings, same faces, same dialogue, same odor, walls rising to the skies and the ever-present feeling that outside the prison gates there is an exciting world to which you have no access,” he wrote.
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