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Headed up to my birth state of Michigan tomorrow to see family and spend some time on Lake Huron and Michigan. Such a beautiful place in the summer and fall.

happy bday Canadian writer Anne Hébert, b.1916. "I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry." “I clap my hands together. (Where do I get the strength, the burst of energy?) To chase away the ghosts. Dispel my fears. Arrange the dream. Maintain a kind of balance”

happy bday writer Herman Melville, b.1819, NYC. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

citizens can't afford groceries, gas, rent, healthcare, etc; the Iran War is a colossal mistake; people's wages can't keep up with prices; and the GOP wants to focus on respected Fauci and the Covid pandemic. The GOP is both tone deaf and cruel.

happy bday artist Mary Vaux Walcott, b.1860, Philadelphia, she has been called the "Audubon of Botany" for her paintings of flowers. "Sometimes I feel that I can hardly wait till the time comes to escape from city life, to the free air of the everlasting hills.

happy bday Austrian writer Peter Rosegger, b.1843. "What it also brings of the great and immortal to strive for: making a fellow human being happy is still the best thing one can do in the world." "Existence is delicious; one just must have the courage to lead one's own life."

Today is the feast day of Spanish priest Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, died this day 1556. "Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” “Laugh and grow strong”. “He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.”

Today is International Friendship Day! a note to all my sisters and brothers on here and the friendship we have through the sharing of our thoughts, dreams, concerns, and heartfelt feelings. I value each of you more than you know.

happy bday Mexican writer Salvador Novo, b.1904. "Las horas de México —trágicas, dichosas, intensas— siguen sonando, aun ya sin que se les escuche..." (The hours of Mexico—tragic, joyful, intense—keep sounding, even when no longer heard...)

on this day in 1866 the New Orleans massacre occurs, "a brutal attack by a white mob and city police against a peaceful gathering of Black freedmen and political reform delegates outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans".

happy bday poet Stanley Kunitz, b.1905, Worcester, MA "In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.”

happy bday Colombian writer Porfirio Barba-Jacob, b.1883. Hay días en que somos tan móviles, tan móviles, como las leves briznas al viento y al azar." (There are days when we are so mobile, so mobile, as light blades of grass in the wind and chance)

happy bday Dag Hammarskjöld, b.1905, Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 until his death in plane crash in 1961. “You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.”

happy bday English writer/illustrator/conservationist Beatrix Potter, b.1866. “All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

happy bday english poet/Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, b.1844. “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring...

happy bday English poet Peter Reading, b.1946. "We all grow grey at the temples and Time’s snow creeps down our cheek-bones; We should be active while sap Courses yet fresh"

RIP writer Gertrude Stein, died this day 1946. “One must dare to be happy." “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” “A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

on this day in 1919 "the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was ignited after a young Black man was stoned and drowned in Lake Michigan for inadvertently swimming in an area reserved for whites." We must know our history if there is any way to not repeat it.

happy bday Swiss icon Carl Jung, b.1875. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

happy bday English writer Aldous Huxley, b.1894. "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”