24 Tuesday May 2022
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome This is a link to Impostor Syndrome. It’s an interesting read! I have heard people talk about this, but never really understood it. Watch this video below to find out more!
I hope all of you have a terrific Tuesday!
Happy Learning!!
Until next time…
Dave
18 Wednesday May 2022
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
To learn more about this French poet, check out his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire I think you’ll find some of his friends to be quite interesting.
Have a great Wednesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
05 Tuesday Apr 2022
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In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month in the United States, this is the first posting that will honor all the contributions of those who immigrated to this country from the Middle East. This first video highlights the importance of geometry in Islamic design. I hope you enjoy it.
Here’s a Wikipedia Link to learn more about this month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_American_Heritage_Month
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
02 Wednesday Mar 2022
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Author, Famous Women, Jane Austen, March, Wednesday, Wikipedia, wisdom, Writer
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane is the first woman I wanted to highlight this month for Women’s History Month. Here’s a link to her Wikipedia page, if you’d like to learn more about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
Have a great Wednesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
16 Wednesday Feb 2022
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Activist, Artist, Author, Critic, France, James Baldwin, United States, Wikipedia, Writer
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
Happy Wednesday, folks! I hope you enjoy these quotes and would like to learn more about James Baldwin. Here’s his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
Until next time…
Dave
08 Tuesday Feb 2022
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This video is a short about Ruby Bridges. I won’t spoil it. Just take a look if you have time. She is a real treasure of the Civil Rights Movement. If you like to learn more, here’s her Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
Have a great Tuesday, folks!
Until next time…
Dave
12 Wednesday May 2021
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5 Quotes, Hosea Ballou, Learning, Quotes, Trivia, Tufts College, Universalism, Wikipedia, wisdom, Wisdom Wednesday
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Here is a Wikipedia link for those of you who would like to know more about this interesting individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea_Ballou
Until next time…
Dave
05 Wednesday May 2021
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5 Quotes, Chinese Philosopher, Interesting facts, Mencius, philosophy, Trivia, Wikipedia, wisdom
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Mencius was considered the “second sage” in China, after Confucius. Here’s a Wikipedia link for you to learn more about him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencius
His name threw me, as I thought he was a Greek philosopher initially. I hope you enjoy this. I like to grab random people and find their quotes. I like some of these.
Until next time…
Dave
07 Wednesday Apr 2021
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Charity, family, Feeding, Love, Mother Teresa, Selfless Service, Smile, Wikipedia
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Peace begins with a smile.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa was an example of selfless service. Here is the Wikipedia link, should you like to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
Have a great day, all!
Until next time…
Dave
13 Wednesday Jan 2021
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
For it is in giving that we receive.
For those of you interested in reading about Francis of Assisi, here’s the Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi
Until next time…
Dave
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