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Photo by Picmonkey.
“No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” —Louise L. Hay
I hope we have a beautiful weekend.
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
This is my 700th post. I’m glad it’s about love and from one of Neil Gaiman’s points of view. That’s the beauty of being a writer. You get to have, with absolute passion and conviction, so many different points of view — one or more for each character created. I hope to have 700 or more posts (and at least that many points of view). *smile*
Cheers to a great weekend!
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“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” -Augustine of Hippo
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“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ―Anne Frank
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” ―Robert Fulghum
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“Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.” ―Doris Walker, Miracle on 34th Street
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Happy Saturday! In case you are surprised to see a Gem today, please visit our new page ÉOWYN. Every day for four weeks, from October 14 to November 10, we’ll be creating new pages for the journey from Bag End to Rivendell made by Frodo and companions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. For the first three of these weeks, this will coincide with a walking challenge, walking through Earth and tracking miles on Middle Earth, being hosted on Kindspring.org from October 14 to November 3. All welcome. This began in on under1000skies in September 2015 and was meant to be at least a yearly event but life got in the way as it does sometimes. Once this current journey and all the milestones are finished, we’ll do this at least once a year until all 18 walks through Middle Earth (17 official and one I’m winging completely) are finished. Continue reading
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Photo by Picmonkey. Art by Pixabay. I put the two together. Unfortunately, the art is from an inactive account, 8926, so I don’t have an attribution. Lots of beauty on those 23 pages.
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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I found this story on Twitter, posted by Sheltering Grace, one of the featured Spotlight Saturdays here on under1000skies. It’s a beautiful, uplifting story by Kim Davis about a man named Abe Tejeda who loves helping people, one person at a time. This time, he changed Klaus Hailfinger’s life after 15 years on the street. Continue reading
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I have never used our site to promote any politician’s agenda, but this issue impacts every single one of us, most especially those who are homeless and/or in poverty. If you have a moment, please read this article about how poverty makes criminals of people who have not yet been convicted for a crime, and what Senator Bernie Sander’s wants to do about it.
In a country in which we pride ourselves on the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” we should not be keeping hundreds of thousands of people locked up before they have actually been convicted of a crime.
And yet in 2016, more than 65 percent of the over 700,000 people in county or city jails on any given day in the United States were “unconvicted” — meaning that more than 400,000 people were in jail who had not been convicted of a crime, often because they lack the money to pay bail. In other words, we have criminalized poverty.
That is not acceptable. Pretrial detention should be not based on how much money a person has, what kind of mood the judge is in on a given day, or even what judge the case happens to come before.
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