🌼Peace2Day🌼

this is exactly the take action thinking and planning we need

feel our country will not
become~

if citizens are on sidelines waiting, watching

we the people
is not a spectator sport

but made from all the acts & ideas & participation possible

to say
such a good idea
thank you for sharing it!

A G R E E ! !

With the poetry community exploring this topic in many ways - this poem is
important
and lifting
and much appreciated!

From

L’etoile du Nord by @matthewjdowd.bsky.social

"...When the compass

Of our country seems broken

Citizens of every shape color & kind

Point a clear way

To our true north

A star guiding us

On a troubled path

To find a new way

To form a more perfect union...

It is up to us..."

All gas
don't let up

#vote
#volunteer
#donate

@ all levels
#local
#state
#national

👇

No matter the obstacle, whether it's winter storms or stormtroopers, Democratic voters are showing up. So far this cycle, 26 R to D flips, 0 D to R flips.

good morning

he is one of my favs too
keep warm, well

from "Freedom"

"Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want my freedom
Just as you. "

Langston Hughes

"Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead."
👇

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal.

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a poster with the words first they came for the socialists and i did not speak out because i was not a socialist ALT: a poster with the words first they came for the socialists and i did not speak out because i was not a socialist

where's that adapted
'first they came...." you wwrote and shared...
seems a new stanza needed 🥹

🙏🕯️❤️
Catherine O'Hara will be so dearly missed
May she rest in peace
With deep sympathy to her family & loved ones and friends
Will every hold her incredibleness & inspiration in my heart

Interview by @vulture.com
www.vulture.com/2026/01/cath...

"We are a nation of

many nationalities,
many races,
many religions-

bound together by a single unity,

the unity of freedom and equality.

Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another,

seeks to degrade all nationalities."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Breathe In” by Makiko Kimura

Breathe…

“Breathe In” by Makiko Kimura

Hanover County supervisors oppose proposed ICE facility The locality’s ability to deter the purchase is extremely limited, though.

Ashland, Virginia:

"Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..."

www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

Lovely image, lovely words....echoing to anyone who sees this peace and love and light message:

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Shelter in the Storm ⛈️

OTD in 1845, Poe publishes The Raven 🐦‍⬛ Poe influenced other authors including another favorite of mine, Baudelaire. While in Paris (be there soon), I often think of this poem, À Une Passante.

What a treasure he gave you.❤️

Ended up using this wonderful poem to facilitate a weekly UU poetry / spiritual conversation I lead today integrating this month's theme of "practicing resistance".

Again - thank you

may we cultivate white roses in ways that help heal and expand connection with each other

Oh - I am not sure, didn't know that is what you were asking - thought maybe you missed the name - did find this gem to peruse if interested
www.votramagazine.com/the-most-bea...

"My childhood – ink-stained fingers,
Bells in the morning,
The muezzin at dusk,
Collections of cigar boxes & old stamps,
Trading one Ceylon
For two Luxembourg.
Thus they passed,
Childhood days,
Chasing after a rag ball, raising dust and cries,
A rag ball,
Made of grey Albanian rags."

Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

Stunning poem - thank you for sharing Marlene and thank you Matthew for the curated quotes-all giving pause tho do love the books one!

" hope costs nothing "

while fear - anger - judgement ...

is costing us all

way way too much

may we spread hope

together 🙏🕯

a rainbow over a body of water with mountains in the distance ALT: a rainbow over a body of water with mountains in the distance

Good morning & Thank You

" hope costs nothing "

while fear - anger - judgement ...

is costing us all

way way too much

can we spread hope

let its sparkle spread across

lands and seas

🙏🕯

These 2 passages
highlighted on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social by @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social
exerpted from full text below written by Former POTUS Joe Biden touched my heart & may touch yours too - with purpose

#healing #ourhome
#standup #speakput
#IStandWithMinneaolis
For #Good 🕯
For #Pretti 🕯

Never forget…. 🕯️

so well done

critical

important

thank you

we are one 🌍

#StandingWithMinneopolis and all of us🗽

and then they came
for us
for you
for me

#peace starts with us ☮️
#justice comes when we stand ⚖️
#liberty sustains when we see, we are one 🗽

This is SO important -
please read @matthewjdowd.bsky.social
take on "first they came...." 👇