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Maureen Benz
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Truth seeker, even when it hurts; liberal in all things, including bacon; retired early childhood educator; M.Ed; kindergarteners make life better…books, British TV, and queso birria make life grand ☮️🇺🇸🥓🇬🇧📺🌮🌮
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In honor of No Kings Day and all those resisting fascism in any way they are able. May we have the courage of Sophie Scholl.
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“Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?” White Rose Pamphlet #3 Sophie Scholl - White Rose Resistance WWII - 1942
June 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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My heart…💔💔💔 As my heart breaks, my resolve to right this wrong intensifies.☮️❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥
Quote from George Orwell’s 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
April 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A prophetic quote on the front of Omar El Akkad’s book I just received.
Quote on the cover of Omar El Akkad’s book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS.” Book with a red cover showing a black image of a little girl looking up at a bomb coming down over her. The book is One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, authored by Omar El Akkad.
March 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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New to me is the brazen wearing of ignorance as a prize, of sorts.
A close-up color photo of bespectacled Isaac Asimov, taken in front of paintings of galaxies and a planet, with the quote below: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Wise words, wise man.
Photo of W. E. B. Du Bois with his quote, “We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.”
December 14, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
20/20
The cover of the book It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, showing a mock up of a newspaper.
December 7, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
19/20
The cover of the book Loving What Is by Byron Katie, showing a photo of the author.
December 6, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
18/20
The cover of the book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, showing a small child dressed in 1800’s clothing.
December 5, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
17/20
The cover of the book The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, showing a black tree with boxing gloves hanging from the title.
December 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
mtbenz.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
16/20
The cover of the book The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, with a picture of a woman in a red gown, her hands raised up behind her head.
December 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
15/20
The cover of the book Love by Leo Buscaglia, with a golden heart on a gold cover.
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
14/20
Cover of the non The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key, showing a man falling into space.
December 1, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
13/20
Book cover of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, showing a man with a briefcase.
November 30, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
12/20
The cover of the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott showing a convergence of lines.
November 29, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
11/20
Cover of the book Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, featuring a sketch of a cathedral.
November 28, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
10/20
Cover of the book Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, showing a snowy landscape.
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
9/20
Cover of the book The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, with a picture of James.
November 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
8/20
Cover of the book Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach with a picture of hands holding a flower.
November 25, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
7/20
Cover of the book Mr Mysterious & Company by Sid Fleishman, showing a magician raising a child off a table by magic.
November 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
6/20
Cover of the book Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, showing Ruby’s face as a young girl.
November 23, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
5/20
Book cover of The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav.
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
4/20
The book cover of Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, with a photo of the author, a Chinese woman.
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
3/20
Cover of the book Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn showing a couple embracing. fFour white stones and one black stone are laid over the cover.
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
2/20
Cover of the book Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, featuring people walking across a reddish rocky landscape.
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
The front of the book Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner showing a teacher and two young students.
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM