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Now more than ever

Cheerfulness may be a blossom of which optimism is the plant.” ​ – WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Peaceful day

“For much of my life I felt alone, but over the years a circle of women came to love me, and I came to love each of those women in return.”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” ​ – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

“Your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess.” ​ – AUSTIN KLEON

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.” ​ – SERENA WILLIAMS

WE GOT THIS! Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” -Chinese Proverb

“I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can’t do it at all.” ​ – LANGSTON HUGHES

“You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You’ve got to be ready to walk through them.” ​ – LESTER HOLT

“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” ​ – MADAM C.J. WALKER

“Love builds. It is positive and helpful. It is more beneficial than hate.” ​ – MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

“Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ​ – ELLA FITZGERALD

Brilliant.

If you’re looking to do some good today.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

“That’s where that sayin’ comes from that what you do on New Year’s Day you’ll be doin’ all the rest of the year,” a former slave known as Sister Harrison said in an interview in 1937. …spend the day in prayer (for those that do such things) and readying for the FIGHT of our lives!

A group of retired Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here "We believe in each other and have faith in ourselves, and we have faith others are going to support us”

Health equity leaders say inaction on the issue is endangering the lives of Black people

I got a library card today…😊 We do not ban books in Jersey, we read em’ and we read lots of em’

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

Hey all, I’ve been co-coordinating a journalism workshop for DMV-area high school students for the last few years and applications have opened for next year’s program. It’s completely free. Please share with someone you know!

Damn right..

Keep pushing..

Veterans,who voted for this 🫤

EasyKnock, a company that took advantage of struggling homeowners by buying their homes and renting it back to them, announced abruptly that it is shutting down

When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".

“Men marry women hoping that they’ll stay the same — but they never do. “Women marry men hoping that they can change them — but they never do.“

Nature is beautiful 😊

Remember a gaggle of illiterate inbred hereditary nobles kept people down for thousands of years under a pack of lies like divine right. This is why we must speak out for human rights, liberalism, and so on. Loud, powerful, confident assholes have a long record of fucking up society for millennia.

another example of people who say they're willing to pay more for American but do not, in fact, pay for made-in-USA goods.

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US

After J Cole said he doesn’t read… I started looking at him funny

The orcas are preparing for the tariff 😩 “Orcas have been spotted stashing food away in other places, too. "We've seen mammal-eating killer whales carry large chunks of food under their pectoral fin, kind of tucked in next to their body," Giles said. “

Grateful…

"I don't believe in hope and I don't believe in hopelessness. Hope can be lethal when you're fighting an autocracy because hope is inextricable from time. An enduring strategy of autocrats is to simply run out the clock." --HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) www.sarahkendziorbooks.com