Darrell Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Reading

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.—Beverly Cleary

I need to watch the first episode yesterday, please.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is hopeful and pronounced with hard 'g' sound oodoogee oowahee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Hard 'g' pronunciation like "girl" or "grass"

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is celebrate and pronounced oonahdayteeyeeskuh

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Sunday Inspiration: Stand Up for Others

Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave—and it is often hard to be brave—be kind.—Sarah Kendzior

Sunday Inspiration: Hope

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.—Pliny the Elder

Sunday Inspiration: The Truth

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.—Flannery O’Connor

How old school am I? This week I got my annual Covid and flu shots. As always, zero side effects for me. Call me crazy, but I prefer vaccines to pandemics. #RFK #Vaccines

Sunday Inspiration: Lighthouses

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.—Anne Lamott

Sunday Inspiration: Being Human Together

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.—Desmond Tutu

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Recently I learned that civil servants have the First Amendment-protected right to speak out on matters of public concern.

Thurgood Marshall, in an 8-1 SCOTUS decision, noted that government employees know how the gov’t works, and the public has a special interest in hearing from them.

Sunday Inspiration: Chains

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.—Voltaire

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Sunday Inspiration: Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.—Corrie ten Boom

I think we should give some credit to CVS here.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Daughters are no longer raised to be wives. They're raised to be people. And some people are really not okay with that. They're not being taught to sacrifice themselves for the comfort of others. Not being told that marriage is the finish line. Not being conditioned to make themselves smaller to be loved. They're being raised to earn their own money, choose their own timing, live alone if they need to, and not apologise for wanting more. They're building lives where love is welcome but not begged for. They're questioning things their mothers had to silently accept. They're choosing healing, not just habits. And for people who are used to obedience, that kind of freedom looks like defiance.

Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.—Edmund Burke

I owe an apology to every author and screenwriter I ever doubted when I said, “come on, no one would actually do that!” Because apparently, people do. Regularly. Constantly. Spectacularly.

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

Makes sense to me!

Being autistic in this overwhelming world is hard. Having enough breaks—and space—to recharge can be the difference between being able to cope, and melting down.

#autism #neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance

The District Manager of the Rings

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
Edith Sitwell, born on this day in 1887

Autism isn’t a disease you catch or a disaster you avert.

It’s a way of being in a hostile world.

Fix the hostility.

Stop hunting for culprits in the womb.

Sunday Inspiration: The Children Are Always Ours

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.—James Baldwin

Is this true? I’m not a scientist; but my understanding is that autism is genetic. Up until recently, I would have trusted HHS to tell me the truth.

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If you didn’t know, now you do! Sunny days are headed our way!

I feel so attacked right now.