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#SisterWendy shared a dream in 3 parts:"First I was looking at magnificent pictures of lakes, then I was actually walking beside these lakes seeing them in their full reality, and then the lakes were inside me. I was containing the lakes...
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....But the significant point is that when I was walking beside the lakes I realized that there was something wrong. The lakes were being damaged, poisoned perhaps, and it was my great sorrow over this and my desire to purify them that carried me into the third stage....
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On the first Earth Day in 1970 Richard Nixon planted a tree on the White House lawn. 50 years later President Trump was asked if it was true that he chopped it down. "We are looking at Obama," he said. "But the tree was a disaster."
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German artist Käthe Kollwitz d 4/22/1945. Few artists were ever so committed to depicting the private struggles and suffering of the poor: hunger, unemployment, sickness, domestic violence, the oppressive burden of despair. And the hope of a better world.
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A pacifist and socialist—these words were not mere ideological labels. They represented a moral and spiritual affirmation of the preciousness of human life and a spirit of resistance to all the idols of death. Banned by the Nazis, she survived until days before the armistice.
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Ask the Master Days were popular on the Estate. No topic was off limits, tho nasty or disgraceful questions about the cost of bread yielded a brusque reply. Those couched in gratitude might be rewarded with the master’s smile or even a sack of barley. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The master had enjoyed great “ratings” all his life—Bolshoi Ballet, dancing bear, Moscow Circus “through the roof ratings”—so it was no surprise that the PEOPLE always stayed to the end of his mandatory State of the Estate Address. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
I’ve had great “ratings” my whole life, there’s nothing unusual about that for me. The White House News Conference ratings are “through the roof”(Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale , @nytimes) but I don’t care about that. I care about going around the Fake News to the PEOPLE!
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In fairness to ER, very few understood at the time why anyone would go to extremes to prevent nuclear war when the government had made it clear that they had it all under control, and that most people would survive if they followed the rules and hid under their desks.
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The master knew that man in the abstract was mortal—and it was right that he should die. But he was not man in the abstract. “For me, with all my thoughts and emotions, it’s altogether different. It cannot be that I will die. That would be too terrible.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The possibility of imagining a different kind of society. via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opini…
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@DeanKBD always speaks the truth. @OrbisBooks
No one is expendable.
No one is disposable.
@DeanKBD on how we recapture our humanity in this moment:
Coronavirus Reveals America's Ongoing Crises
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I asked #SisterWendy if she was familiar with Simone Weil's essay on the importance of attention. She said: "All attention, if it is true attention, is attention to God. It’s attention that makes us alive, not attention to ourselves, but to what is....
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...If we look truly at creation we will see God reflected back to us. And if we look truly at God we will see God reflected in creation. I don’t like dividing the human race into those who are real = attentive, and those who are just sleepers. Our Lord never gives up on people.
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