#VersionHaikuSaturday butterflies aloft flitting above the green grass oak leaf silhouette short form butterflies flitting silhouette one line butterflies aloft oak leaf silhouette

This is a side of President Trump you never see in the mainstream media

Barefoot stroll seaside/ Riptides waves crest, crash seawall/ Vanishing footprints c2026 Christine_Kohler; photo by @Pixabay & pexel #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poetry #poetry lovers #poetrycommunity

#HaikuSaturday In honor of Flag Day, June 14th 5/7/5 stars stripes Old Glory a spectacular sunset transient beauty Short Form Old Glory sunset beauty Monoku Old Glory a spectacular sunset…. transient beauty

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This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

Tuesday Debut - Presenting Kathy Feedham Raggio! PLUS A Giveaway!! susannahill.com/2026/06/09/t…

An excerpt from D-Day Easy Company CO, Lt. Thomas Meehan, to his wife before his jump into Normandy: “I'm going to take the best company of men in the world into France. We'll give the bastards hell. Strangely, I'm not particularly scared. But in my heart is a terrific longing to hold you in my arms. I love you Sweetheart – forever. Your Tom.” Thomas Meehan KIA on DDay 82 years ago.🪦

This is what America is all about. The debt we owe the men and women in the armed services is infinite. God Bless every single one.

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡 My respect 96 years . 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 AMERICAN MADE . The GOAT !! Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold. Aging is not gentle. You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses. But none of that is the hardest part. The hardest part is the quiet. At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call. The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces - are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with. So you tell the stories anyway. To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do. But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on. Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered. And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up. Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body. It is memory looking for a place to rest. And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen. Not to fix anything. Just to be there. That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing. ~Wild Whispers .

#HaikuSaturday 5/7/5 Busy Bee working Camouflaged among the seeds Buzz Pollination Short Form busy Bee camouflaged pollination Monoku busy bee camouflaged among seeds—buzz pollination

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You can see the absolute terror in her eyes. That will all change soon. She is going to be a gorgeous blond if we can fix her so I called her Marilyn Monroe (4/5)

I told her to just relax, sleep, eat all the nice food we give her and the medicines will start working soon. A very soft and gentle girl who will be looking and feeling like a million dollars one day soon I hope 🤞 (5/5)

Wins. Today, think about the steps forward you have made in your journeys. Celebrate them and be proud of who far you've come. #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Perfect Picture Book Friday - Berry Song susannahill.com/2026/06/05/p…

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This email made me cry happy tears! I just found out my book, Claude, got its 3rd Starred Review! I am so thrilled that @sljournal, @ShelfAwareness, and now @ALA_Booklist love Claude!