And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make
Chicago, IL
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Great time to be a Chicago sports fan! Bears win! Cubs & Sox in the playoffs. Blackhawks season starts tonight.
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“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability. We might have thought that the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust were enough to inoculate us against the toxins there revealed and unleashed. But our resistance quickly fades. A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Old slogans and hatreds are dusted off. What was only recently muttered guiltily is now offered as political axiom and agenda. There are renewed appeals to ethnocentrism, xenophobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, and territoriality. And with a sigh of relief we are apt to surrender to the will of the alpha, or long for an alpha we can surrender to.”
— Carl Sagan
Debbie N. retweeted
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
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These times call upon us to find out. Do it on purpose with a spoonful of sugar. @dollyparton favorite. instagr.am/p/CrL41btLPIH/
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"I wish you joy and happiness
But above all this, I wish you love..."
Dolly Parton 1946-2026
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Comment from Chicagoland...
"As a Chicagoan, and I mean no offense to the lovely folks of Indiana, we would rather bulldoze our entire city than be run by the state of Indiana or be part of it in any way."
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July's furnace banks its heat, awaiting August. (Photo taken in southern Illinois.)
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Mum admired you, Dr. Fauci, and considered you a hero, as do I.
Excerpt from Dr. Fauci's diary: "I received a call from Ethel and Kerry Kennedy explicitly inviting (me) up to Hyannisport for 4th of July weekend. They were so nice over the phone. They said that they loved and admired me and were so pleased that the Kennedy family could honor me."
There's a right to privacy in our country, and the left, right, and middle can all agree that publishing someone's personal diaries is a clear violation. There's an exception for excerpts that reveal wrongdoing, corruption, or abuse. Sen. Rand Paul jeopardized all our rights when he wholesale published thousands of pages of Dr. Fauci's personal diaries. That's no way to treat a citizen. That's no way to treat a hero.
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Storm settles into quiet,
Darkest dusk leads to a dawn,
Bleak winter melts to springtime,
And the tide turns-
Hold on.
~ Sharon Hudnell
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Two photographs of Earth taken over half a century apart.
Left - Apollo 17, 1972
Right - Artemis II, 2026
I’m in both pictures.
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Imagine needing a reminder that “No Kings” is the baseline for our democracy.
These mass protests are for the people pretending “King” is a U.S. job title and trading their dignity for a red hat.
It’s “We the People”, not “We the Fanboys”.
Get the memo.
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Pint-Henge. Today is St. Patrick's Day and it will be the coldest in Chicago in almost 60 years. Sláinte #ireland #chicago #stpatricksday @GuinnessUS @GuinnessIreland
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Jackie Kennedy walks down (now-demolished) East Colonnade from (now-demolished) East Wing at start of her televised White House tour (for which she won an Emmy), aired on Valentine's Day 1962:
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People often fake being nice, but most people don’t fake being mean. So if they are mean, believe them.
