by Susan | Jun 24, 2022 | inspiration, poem
He tells her that the earth is flat — He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He...
by Susan | Jun 24, 2022 | birthdays
June 24, 1814 Henry Ward Beecher “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” June 24, 1915 Norman Cousins “The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow...
by Susan | Jun 23, 2022 | folktales, inspiration
There was a wicked tyrant; and the god Indra, assuming the shape of a hunter, came down upon earth with the demon Matali, the latter appearing as a dog of enormous size. Hunter and dog entered the palace, and the dog howled so woefully that the royal buildings shook...
by Susan | Jun 23, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
June 23, 1910 Jean Anouilh “God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.” June 23, 1912 Alan Turing “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2022 | inspiration, poem
I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place Where they hate my shade of skin They don’t like the way I pray And they ban free poetry. I come from a beautiful...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2022 | birthdays
June 22, 1887 Julian Huxley “To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.” June 22, 1896...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
June 22, 1947 Octavia E. Butler “Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other ‘isms’ that cause so much suffering in the...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2022 | inspiration, poem
No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. Your neighbours running faster than you, the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun...
