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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (from A.Word.A.Day):
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” - Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, & writer (10 November 1730 - 4 April 1774)
A black & white print of a middle-aged white man holding a quill pen sits at a desk scattered with books and papers. Overlaid is the text: “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” - Oliver Goldsmith.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#QuoteOfTheDay #qotd
Against a black and white portrait of Saul Belliw is the text with quote in white on the right side: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” - Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 June 1915 - 5 April 2005).
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#QuoteOfTheDay #qotd
Over an oil painting of the distinguished elder philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill is the text: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (from A.Word.A.Day): “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”      - John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873)
May 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Some naps are more literate than others.

Madame 💁‍♀️ #Sassy 🐶🐾 decided she had fully absorbed the contents of these books thanks to osmosis.
A white terrier mix with brown spots sleeps on next to a small stack of books she scattered across the wood floor. Such is the life of a literate dog.
May 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A thought for today, courtesy of @ClaraParkes / The Daily Respite.

#QuoteOfTheDay

Find joy. Find magic. Find connection. They are all antidotes to hate.
A sepia-toned portrait of 鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, identified below the image in black font on a white background along with a quote: “The world is its own magic.”
May 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Here is the #knit Robin on the wreath I made previously, now with a springtime bow, decking the door of Mom’s room at the nursing/care home.

Pattern: Rockin’ Robins
Designer: Joan Rowe / Joan’s Garden
🧶: a combo of Plymouth Galway Sport & J&S Shetland Heritage in undyed shades, held doubled.
A grapevine wreath with a yellow polka dot ribbon bow at the top and dried eucalyptus worked into the bottom section of the wreath. Perched on the grapevine and eucalyptus is a handknit robin bird for Robin.
March 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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My mother’s name is “Robin” so I knit this for the door of her room at the nursing/care home.

Pattern: Rockin’ Robins
Designer: Joan Rowe / Joan’s Garden on @Hi.Ravelry
🧶: a combination of Plymouth Yarn Galway Sport & The WoolBrokers Shetland Heritage in undyed shades, held doubled.
A knit robin perched in my hand. Side view of the knit robin, shown hopping on the arm of the couch. A three-quarters profile view of the knit robin, shown hopping on the arm of the couch. Another frontal view of the knit robin, shown hopping on the arm of the couch.
March 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Remember the rule of law?
“[S]o far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
March 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (from A.Word.A.Day):
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it”. - Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)
A black & white Karsh portrait of Albert Einstein. Text beneath: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

#ResistanceIsAVirtue
A black & white photo of New Zealand suffragist Kate Sheppard with a quote by her on left:  “All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” The attribution is below:  Kate Sheppard, suffragist (10 March 1847 - 13 July 1934).
March 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#Truth & #wisdom for today.
An elder Victor Hugo sits, head in hand. Below, a quote: Men hate those to whom they have to lie. - Victor Hugo
February 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Join me tomorrow 4 - 5:30 at Stitch House Dorchester (Boston, Mass USA) as we continue the #UnravelingBagOfTricksKAL lesson review, working our way through Patty Lyons‘ _Knitting Bag of Tricks.

#GuysWhoKnit #QueerKnitters #KnitTheWorldTogether 🧶
Against a black table my supplies: Patty Lyons’ Bag of Tricks book and workbook, plus a skein of wool (Cascade BFL) in gray, a skein of acrylic (Plymouth Soft Serve in gray), & a skein of cotton (Queensland Coastal Cotton in mint green pastel). My first swatch, practicing stitch mounts. Your intrepid knitter grimaces for the camera while holding his swatch in front of his forehead.
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM