Two writers on a mission to help others be generous with what they know.

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BEAUTY There are 5 types of hospitality I’ve encountered as I walk: Beauty is the icing on the cake, the glitter on the table, or the flowers in the vase. Give towards my goal of $5,000 to support linguistic hospitality through SIL, please click here: give.sil.org/campaign/celebr…

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PROVISION There are 5 types of hospitality I’ve encountered by walking the Geneva Lake Shore Path. One way people show hospitality is to offer provisions of food, water or clothing. If you want to give towards my goal of $5,000: give.sil.org/campaign/celebr…
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REST There are 5 types of hospitality I’ve encountered by walking the Geneva Lake Shore Path. The first is giving rest to the stranger. If you want to give towards my goal of 5,000 to support linguistic hospitality through SIL, please click here: give.sil.org/campaign/celebr…
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"We grow small trying to be great." - E. Stanley Jones
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“Did you know that it’s alright to wonder?”
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Even in the X-o-sphere!
“We are all neighbors.”
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Let’s #PrayTogether for beleaguered Ukraine, where the war is destroying everything, even grain, while the cry of millions of hungry brothers and sisters rises to Heaven.
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A boquete of butterflies!
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Let’s assume only 100 people lived in the EU. This is where they’d live. Sorry, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovenia (and the even smaller mini countries). Source: buff.ly/3O4U8DD
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We live in a “noisy world” - Mr Roger’s concern is as real today as ever!
“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”
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Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business has named SIL International the inaugural winner of its Partner of the Year Award! 🏆 Learn more: business.purdue.edu/news/fea…
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"Prayer is primarily and fundamentally surrender." - E. Stanley Jones
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The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX
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Does anyone understand what is going on in #Mississippi #Arkansas and #Louisiana ? :) I never would have picked it for the center of the Barbie Fandom!
Not surprised that New Mexico and DC are the number one Oppenheimer states. The Barbie crown goes to Mississippi and Louisiana.
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“An act cannot be creative if it is not born of freedom.” Parker Palmer
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From my biography of Einstein: "One day at the Institute, Einstein ran into Oppenheimer, who was preparing for the hearings [where the Atomic Energy Commission was deciding whether to revoke his security clearance]. They chatted for a few minutes, and when Oppenheimer got to his car he recounted the conversation to a friend. “Einstein thinks that the attack on me is so outrageous that I should just resign,” he said. Einstein considered Oppenheimer “a fool” for even answering the charges. Having served his country admirably, he had no obligations to subject himself to a “witch hunt.” “The trouble with Oppenheimer," Einstein told Abraham Pais, "is that he loves a woman who doesn’t love him—the United States government. All Oppenheimer had to do, Einstein said, was “go to Washington, tell the officials that they were fools, and then go home.” Oppenheimer lost his case. The AEC voted that he was a loyal American but also a security risk and—one day before it would have expired anyway—revoked his clearance. Einstein visited him at the Institute the next day and found him depressed. That evening he told a friend that he did not “understand why Oppenheimer takes the business so seriously.” When a group of Institute faculty members circulated a petition affirming support for their director, Einstein immediately signed up. Others initially declined, some partly out of fear. This galvanized Einstein. When a group of Institute faculty members circulated a petition affirming support for their director, Einstein immediately signed up. He “put his ‘revolutionary talents’ into action to garner support,” a friend recalled. After a few more meetings, Einstein had helped to convince or shame everyone into signing the statement. Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer’s AEC antagonist, was on the board of the Institute, which worried the faculty. Would he try to get Oppenheimer fired? Einstein wrote his friend Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, another trustee, calling Oppenheimer “by far the most capable Director the Institute has ever had.” Dismissing him, he said, “would arouse the justified indignation of all men of learning.” The trustees voted to keep him.
#ThrowbackThursday: In honor of the new "Oppenheimer" movie, here's a photo of the two physicists, Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Tony Bennett, the legendary crooner best known for singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," has died, the New York Times reports cnn.it/46VEDXl
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