Good Morning All! Hello there Digital Neighbors, Triggeratti, Refugees, Phamily, Dawn Patrol & Early Birds, Later Dayers & Day Walkers, Conversants, Posters, Lurkers, Scrollers, Merry Bigots and Fascinating People.
Been watching it snow since 3 AM (It is closing in on 6 AM now) from my bed room window while laying in bed, fading in and out of that restless sleep filled with strange dreams, short vignettes of the past, mind photos of individuals and experiences. They are an odd combination of strange and comforting and perhaps the only time I have remembered hearing the voice of loved ones long past or childhood friends lost through the passage of time. The first big snowfall of the year and it holds its own peace and beauty for me. A few quotes on this wintery morning for you dear neighbors on the inter-webs. Happy Saturday!
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. - Andy Goldsworthy
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. - Margaret Atwood
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible. - John Burnside
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 ...
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