Simone Weil Quote – Humility is attentive patience
“Humility is attentive patience.” – Simone Weil
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Giant snails
Miami South Florida is battling a growing infestation of one of the world’s most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail. At least 1,000 of the snails are being caught each week \ in Miami-Dade County, and a total of 117,000 of the mollusks have been caught since September 2011. They can grow as big as a rat and […]
Read moreWinston Churchill Quote – Stabbing You In The Back
“If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.” – Winston Churchill
Read moreCartoon – Truth in medicine
Live. Laugh. Love.
“Live. Laugh. Love.”
Read morePoem – In Good Company (By Fabrice B. Poussin)
In Good Company Hurt for the first time again, they swear to live, seeking protection in the indelible mirror; yet they stare in hope of freezing the image they hope all will see. Broken anew, birthing twins to the old scars, finding a smile in a figure of fragile wax, they must, and know to stay away from […]
Read morePrevented From Voting
Percentage of black Americans in the South who are prevented from voting because they have been convicted of a felony: 13
Read morePoem – DEAR SPIDER (By John Grey)
DEAR SPIDER – By John Grey Ants are more efficient at what they do than people. Weeds can grow just about anywhere. Animals kill to survive not for pleasure. And they collect no gewgaws besides. A homeless man sits on the pavement, holding up a sign, with a cup before him that’s hungry for coins. Most people stride on […]
Read moreCartoon – Crooked Conversations
Poem – Flotsam and Jetsam (By Donal Mahoney)
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store, at the post office. They can’t find their money, if they have any. They’re never in a hurry. They have nowhere to go and you’re always in line behind them, a busy man with people to see, appointments to keep, deadlines to meet. You try to […]
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