Two things I'd heard/read that gave me peace:
Hey, if you see a chance to be kind to someone tomorrow, take it. I think we need it. (Brad Pitt, after accepting last night's Golden Globe award)
I hope something nice happens for you today. (I saw this attached to the rear window of someone's car this morning.)
That mouse is the Democratic Party trying to get rid of the Orange One. Don't give up!
Mr Mouse, or maybe it is Ms Mouse, is also solving the climate crisis. :-)
A friend sent this to me today. The poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 100 years old today, is playing off a Kahil Gibran poem (Pity the Nation):
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerers
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
With force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty.
Something a friend posted today, not really poetry, and from an author I don't know, very inspiring:
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
--L.R. Knost
''paper
may burn
but words
will escape''
This is what it says right now, above City Lights Bookstore, as they celebrate 100 years of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
When i moved to San Francisco, in the early 90's, one of the 1st things i did, was to go to City Lights bookstore. I was surprised to walk in to an exhibition of artworks all created by elephants. The walls were all covered in paintings made by elephants, and the sound system was blasting the Thai Elephant Orchestra. It was all Abstract Expressionism, and crazy, Free-Form Jazz . Who knew that elephants had such beatnik sensibilities? It was beautiful
@unk-p, thanks for making me smile a big smile! With the Henry Mancini song "Baby Elephant Walk" playfully ringing through my head ...
In case you haven't had your heart broken today:
"In every scene, you are my star, Michelle Obama! Happy birthday, baby!"