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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 1h

Such important writing here by Montale
thank you
from
The Hitler Spring
"...Perhaps the sirens and the tolling
that hail the monsters on the eve
of their pandemonium already blend
with the sound let loose from the sky
that descends and conquers--
with the breath of a dawn that may rise tomorrow..."

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Joyce Hannay @joycielou.bsky.social · 1h

When my dad served in the AF during the Korean War, he brought this one back from Japan. Not sure who the artist is.

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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 1h

Also died OTD …
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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking of my upcoming drive and this comes to mind… RIP John Denver who died OTD in Colorado.

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John Denver / Take Me Home, Country Roads [1972]

YouTube video by M masassa

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

RIP Japanese artist Hiroshige, died this day 1858.

"Leaving my brush behind; I travel upward to the sky / To see places of fame in the Western Paradise".

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1h

happy bday Italian writer Eugenio Montale, b.1896.

"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."

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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 21h

As ever - perfect quotes for the moment, the choices/times we have before us-thank you

Applies personally & in community-
& so we persevere!

"When you look fear in the face
you are able to say to yourself
'I lived through this horror
I can take the next thing that comes along'"

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

thank you.

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Nathaniel Dorsey @natedorsey60l.bsky.social · 1d

I know, right? As a one-time Detroiter, I was hoping they could pull it out, but there's always the Detroit Lions.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to the Seattle Mariners! what an epic game last night and series. As a Detroit Tigers fan I am sad we aren't going to next round, but I am grateful for a wonderful season and for them playing meaningful baseball in October. Onward.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC.

“I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can’t do that, then it should not survive.”

“If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

thank you.

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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 1d

The is the piece to read-needed balm!
I run a weekly discussion-what @matthewjdowd.bsky.social captures so well-ties to a theme we keep circling

"connect w/those-
who have a soft touch in their soul-

Once I cry or laugh w/another-
I can begin to bridge the divisions
which exist in our world today"

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump officials laugh behind closed doors at those of us who try to lead lives of compassion and empathy. Trump could care less about his own voters, and doesn’t respect them" ihttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewdowd/p/demanding-leaders-with-a-soft-touch?r=130087&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing your piece

Means so very much & captures something I think many people, every day people, different generations, different backgrounds - kind people - are grappling with and trying to navigate - and you captured the tenor so well -
with the ideas of how to heal too
Thank you!

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Brad Wendel @wendelsworlds.bsky.social · 1d

“I want to surround myself with people who can touch the hearts of others.”

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump officials laugh behind closed doors at those of us who try to lead lives of compassion and empathy. Trump could care less about his own voters, and doesn’t respect them" ihttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewdowd/p/demanding-leaders-with-a-soft-touch?r=130087&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

open.substack.com

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Peacenotwar @peacenotwar2024.bsky.social · 1d

“Before we get these types of soft touch leaders in DC, we must each live our lives with a soft touch in our soul. We must associate with people who do the same and encourage each other even while the world grows dark and cold. We must step outside our own homogenous circles and connect...”

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

good morning all, my latest column open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

open.substack.com

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

lord have mercy. how out of touch are these folks? Bad Bunny has an audience more than 100 times larger than Lee Greenwood.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3d

Hahaha....Lee fucking Greenwood.

Mike Johnson is like an SNL parody of a youth minister.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

thank you.

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Laurie @voddy.bsky.social · 2d

Beautifully said, Matt!!! Thank you for these words. We all experience hardships and our response to them reveals our character. I am thankful for the soft touch of the soul. Blessings to you as a fellow traveler of the Light.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

thank you.

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Andrew @amac0668.bsky.social · 2d

Great read this morning! Bravo Matthew. 👏
"...we must each live our lives with a soft touch in our soul. We must associate with people who do the same and encourage each other even while the world grows dark and cold."

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Jennifer M Moss, MD, FACOG @jmmosstx.bsky.social · 2d

"Before we have political conversations that divide us immediately, the first step to a country that respects human dignity is for us to find the things which bind us as humans: the hard knockouts, the sorrows, and the joys."

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump officials laugh behind closed doors at those of us who try to lead lives of compassion and empathy. Trump could care less about his own voters, and doesn’t respect them" ihttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewdowd/p/demanding-leaders-with-a-soft-touch?r=130087&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

open.substack.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.”

María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump officials laugh behind closed doors at those of us who try to lead lives of compassion and empathy. Trump could care less about his own voters, and doesn’t respect them" ihttps://open.substack.com/pub/matthewdowd/p/demanding-leaders-with-a-soft-touch?r=130087&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

open.substack.com

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

good morning all, my latest column open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...

Demanding Leaders with a Soft Touch in Their Soul

This week I highlighted the birthday of Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, who was born October 9, 1893.

open.substack.com

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

well done. bravo.

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