Happy Thursday Friends & Digital Neighbors! A couple of more days of quotes from the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and somewhere is Scotland an Autumn photo. The title says it is Autumn Tints of Perthshire. Have a great day my friends!
#59 Free advice is seldom cheap.
It cost nothing to give one free advice, after all they pay the consequences for for the choice and will reap the rewards or suffer the pains. Free advice from friends is usually the safest advice, assuming you have chosen your friends well. Free advice form family can often be the most costly depending on how broken the dynamics are in your family.
Freed advice from family often gets package in the wonderful phrase you should strike from you vocabulary: "I'm telling you this for your own good." While I think we all understand what it is meant to mean - "I am trying to help you", it more often means "I'm giving you advice that will make both of us happier, but especially me." It seems to be tainted with a little ...
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
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