sweet!

"Imagination,

not invention,

is the supreme master

of art as of life."

- Joseph Conrad

Imagination, mistakes, taking chances....
cant imagine not imagining!

Thanks for this morning's journeys

agree!

Good morning

Her insight, wisdom & persistence...

Thank you for sharing

"I know that the Black-and-white integration concept, which in the mind of some beaming early saint was a dainty spinning dream, has wound down to farce… I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black"

Good morning

thank you, always

what is shared here is ever important
all the topics
all the forms
all the inspiration

“War is contempt for life.

Peace is to create.”

- Nordahl Grieg

relate to this in that have several advocacy poems being published-thank you for sharing

"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land & condemned to exile"

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Absolutely

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

Thank you both

love this too

“All the seas, everywhere,
are brothers one to another

Why then do the winds and waves of strife
rage so violently through the world?”

- John Toland

Thank you for sharing with me and all!

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Good morning

How influential her book "Little Women" - and the quotes you shared -- continue to resonate

and this --
seems apropos for how many connections have been nurtured here & beyond over the past decade...

"Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends."

- Louisa May Alcott