“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” --C.S. Lewis

Definitely not America First.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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“Mental health is not about being happy all the time. It's about learning to handle the full range of human emotion. It's normal to feel grief after loss, anger at injustice, and fear in danger. Resilience lies in putting our feelings in perspective instead of letting them define us.”

 --Adam Grant

Why won’t @joerogan have @gavinnewsom.bsky.social on? 😬

"What if authenticity isn't about finding your "true self" but about integrating all your selves - the one who shows up to work, the one who cries in the shower, the one who dreams impossible things? You're not one thing. You're a beautiful, complex ecosystem."

--Michell C. Clark

“If you feel like you’re losing everything remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.” --Japanese Proverb

US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out

(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up.

@financialtimes.com
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“Live the life you love, love the life you live.” --Bob Marley

“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”
--Plato

Zelenskyy should wear a tan suit this time.

“If your purpose was right in front of you, how would you run towards it.” --Kirsten Ferguson

Even the Joker hates Nazis.

If Trump’s sycophants start bullying Zelenskyy about his war zone clothes, this is what Churchill wore when he visited ghe WH during WW2

Hey, Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social take a look at how Alaska prepares for Putin.

“Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful “yes” at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything.”

--Brother David Steindl-Rast

Stay to fight

“Your story is not for you, it’s for others who need hope.”
--Inky Johnson

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.”

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"We spend most of our lives mastering how to do things, but in the end it is the quality of character of the individual that distinguishes the great leaders." --Frances Hesselbein

“What you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe.”

--Simon Sinek

"Try to keep a sense of perspective and to laugh as often as possible—especially at yourself." --Joyce Roché

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”
--Pablo Casals

Every setback is a set-up for a comeback. Keep going.