Gene Amberg
@tortuga-ga.bsky.social
Former Assoc Director, National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; former K-12 Superintendent of Schools
“I can face the winter with calm. Crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.” ~A.A.Milne
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“I can face the winter with calm. Crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.” ~A.A.Milne
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
To remind me of man’s inhumanity...
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
August 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
To remind me of man’s inhumanity...
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” – Abba Woolson
May 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” – Abba Woolson
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus.”
— Turkish proverb
— Turkish proverb
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus.”
— Turkish proverb
— Turkish proverb
“There are silences harder to take back than words.”
James Richardson
James Richardson
February 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“There are silences harder to take back than words.”
James Richardson
James Richardson
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.
Martha Ostenso
Martha Ostenso
January 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.
Martha Ostenso
Martha Ostenso
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
—David Attenborough
—David Attenborough
December 30, 2024 at 8:46 PM
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
—David Attenborough
—David Attenborough
Shout out to the Urbana Free Library in Illinois…
December 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Shout out to the Urbana Free Library in Illinois…
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
December 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
