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‘If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”
-- Betty Ford

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, born OTD in 1929

JANE EYRE (film) Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga United Kingdom, 2011. "After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess at Thornfield House, an isolated and imposing residence, property of the cold and mysterious Mr Rochester. While Jane finds herself falling in love with him, she discovers he is hiding a terrible secret."

Celebrating the publication of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (1847).

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?"
#English #Literature #film

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Internet killed the video star.

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Hey also you should read about one of the coolest things to ever happen hyperallergic.com/345116/on-te...

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“It was a rigorous life, but for Janet it was softened by the landscape, by reading, and by the animals whom she found it possible to love without ..."🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

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Painting of sunrise or sunset over a calm sea. Lemon yellows and blue- greys. The sun peeps over a thick line of cloud above the horizon. It is reflected on foreground ripples. Suggests maybe a moment of unexpected happiness.

'But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.'

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

#BookWormSaturday
(is celebrating short stories)

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If the Bog Irish family I married into is any indication, they are READY

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