Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Up a little earlier - the road plows are out as we brace for winter storm Rambo. A sleet mix started a bit ago, I can see the glassy look on the trees. Roads don't seem too slick just yet, but I can hear it pinging on the windows. It is very windy too - things are freezing quickly from the rain last night. What the morning holds will be seen, hopefully not too many runs by the ambulances, fire trucks and police. Prayers for safe travels for those who have no choice but to venture out and about in areas affected by winter storm Rambo. (I am not sure what it is called and I think naming winter storms is just Meteorologist envy for the decades the Hurricane Meteorologists could talk about all their cool names. I know, I know, it does help to name storms so that can reference a time & place easier.) S u r e 😜
On to - e h Young Erin has it going on, not all her poems are appealing to me, but more than I would have ever imagined. The off road personalities are the best, and everyone can be one, but many choose not to be. The pull to belong to the group at the sacrifice of the self is powerful. The collective US can really push down and eliminate the ME that is. It is a dance for all of us but I prefer the MEs that willingly become part of US become of mutual attraction, curious friendship, seeking minds and empathetic hearts. Happy Wednesday my friends - be safe if you have to contend with Rambo or whatever the weather is called in your area. Heatwave Marvin has be heating up the south . . . . On to - e h
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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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
