"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." โ Maya Angelou
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
โ Maya Angelou
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"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." โ Maya Angelou
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
โ Maya Angelou
Connecticut was the 2nd state to amend their marriage laws effective November 12, 2008. Hooray for the Nutmeg state. Connecticutโs state motto is โQui Transtulit Sustinetโ which means โHe Who Transplanted Still Sustains.โ
Congratulations, good luck and happy anniversary to the wonderful couples.
Ardell is a perfectly good name for a Nebraska farmer ๐ฝ
13.11.2025 20:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Cerise carnations crumble colossal challenges comforting confusticated cerebra.
Marriage Equality - Kansas by Aric Olnes. Marriage Equality for the Friends of Dorothy began on November 12, 2014. For this poster, I've created a common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) which is the Kansas state flower.
12.11.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Bubbly buoyant Blueberries block blustery boorishness begetting beneficial brilliance.
When Oleโs 8 months were up in the Pacific, he joined an Experimental Outfit in Moffet Field, CA. He spent time with the Flying Mars Program (Martin JRM-3 Mars Air Tankers). There were only 6 of these aircraft made.
11.11.2025 17:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Armistice was signed while he was en route to Korea, so they ended up spending their time in Japan keeping the peace. This is when he picked up his nickname โOle.โ
11.11.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Storytime:
My father disliked the name Ardell. He went by his nickname โOle.โ Mom wanted to name me Ardell Jr., but settled on me sharing his initials A.J.O.
Years later, dad remarried & my stepmom drove herself to the hospital at 4am & named their first born Ardell Jr. against my fatherโs wishes.
Armistice Day remembrances.
My father served during the Korean War.
โArdell J. Olnes left the farm in Nebraska at 22 y/o to join the U.S. Navy. His Air Group was on the USS Oriskany, โThe Mighty Oโ, an Essex-class aircraft carrier.
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Here's my 23 song "Peaches Biggest Releases" video playlist:
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Happy birthday, Peaches
Merrill Nisker (b. Nov 11, 1966) is an electro-punk shock-thriller singer from Toronto, Canada who pushes all the boundaries to the breaking point and then hits them with a hammer just for fun. Peaches fuses sexually-charged hard rock with techno, synth-punk and electropop.
Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Adorably appealing Applesย abandon annoying anger amplifying animated attitudes.
Kim Davis is pissed!
11.11.2025 03:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Zippy zazzy Zigadene zanily zonks zombielike zeal zestily zooming zoetic zeitgeist.
Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Yellow Sweet Clover yanks sundry constraints, yielding suddenly curtailing yobbishly startling cataclysms.
When Karma bites,
it bites hard.
Since a subset of Americans yearn so much for some fictional past, here are some holiday recipe suggestions to transport you back 75 years.
09.11.2025 02:57 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wiggle-waggling wispy Willow whips wayfaring whelps wakening witty whimsy.
08.11.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Velvety vigilant Vervain vacates vafrous vagaries vivifying venerable validations.
โThese are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.โ
06.11.2025 21:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yeah, you donโt have to pay taxes when you have no income after being laid off from your job because of Republican incompetence.
06.11.2025 19:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aricโs Alliterative Allusions:
Terrifically tall Tomatillos trample trivial tensions teasing taunted tastebuds.
"Henry" an acronym for "high earner, not rich yet.โ
06.11.2025 10:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bwahaha
06.11.2025 01:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ผ Everyone knows about Mississippi.
๐ผ Goddamn!
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Hawthorn (Crataegus punctata) is the official flower of Missouri. I used this illustration on my Marriage Equality poster for Missouri.
Missouri's state motto is Salus populi suprema lex esto "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.โ
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๐ผ Listen to the People
๐ผ Canโt you hear them crying out
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