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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Sunday, September 8, 2019
How many people in your life … will respond honestly and yet totally on your side of every issue?
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author.
Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by Adam Cuerden
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Commentary
Sunday, September 8, 2019
How many people in your life have or had you such a relationship that you could speak with absolute honesty and know that your secrets are safe; that they will still be your confidantes after you speak; that they will respond honestly and yet totally on your side of every issue.
From ages five to nine I had two.
From nine to eleven, I don’t remember any.
From eleven to thirteen, two.
From thirteen to nineteen, two new ones.
None again jump to mind until I was nineteen and met Toni-Lee, my wife of twenty-five years; mother of my three children.
Although she of middle-class who only crossed streets at crosswalks, and I of the working class with a different set of values and a different arc to my life, she listened and responded without ever passing judgment. Nor did she ever flinch from doing whenever I needed a hand.
During my thirty years in the restaurant I had several very dear and close friends, all of them business partners or associates.
After my second marriage broke up, I met a woman who was that best friend with me for three years that would have been very tough indeed were it not for our relationship. Smart, and pretty, and literate, and warm and understanding and in need of understanding.
It sounds like a lot but stretched out over seventy-seven years it is not that many.
It’s easy to take them for granted. But when we have such relationships we must outwardly demonstrate to them that we recognize our good fortune in having them in our lives.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Involved in writing descriptors and adding hyperlinks to the blog into each video that I’ve created.
All new videos will follow this format.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Publication Date: Sunday, September 8, 2019
Name: A tie, infidel!
Length: 2.39
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Friday’s Dinner posted on
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Today I used up a piece of leftover grilled rib eye steak.
In a touch of olive oil, I sautéed a bell pepper, a serrano chili, and an onion, adding only a bit f salt, and then added the steak and cooked long enough for the steak to absorb the flavors of the aromatic saute.
With a bit of crusty bread, it was delicious.
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Sunday, September 8, 2019
From Kali L:
A letter to our 20 year old self
I want you to know at 33 how hard
I was trying to wash the self-hatred
from our arms with razor blades
and Neosporin.
I thought if I could make new skin
and crop my hair shorter and shorter
and polish my face less and less
and thin my body out and down to
bone we’d find love in Newport.
I thought if I hollowed myself out
with man after man I’d finally become
me. I thought his concept of love would
be the miracle salve; the answer.
I wish the woman I am now was the one
I needed for us in our 20’s and I am so
sorry. I’m here now.
Web Meister responds: Lovely. Thank you, my dear.
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Chuckle of the day:
Sunday, September 8, 2019
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Aldous Huxley
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg
No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz
Jane Addams, from a Charcoal Drawing by Alice Kellogg Tyler of 1892. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114
Nkfoy - Own work
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Today’s Thumbnails
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author.
She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate for world peace.
She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses.
In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school.
In 1920, she was a co-founder for the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.
She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy, and is known by many as the first woman "public philosopher in the history of the United States".
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A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
Acknowledgements
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Thanks to the Jokes Warehouse for providing today’s chuckle.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, September 8, 2019
So many good women of whom we know so little.
But my android and Bing keep the Jane Addams’ at my finertips.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon