Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends. Happy Sunday Refugees & Early Birds at Rubin Report. š Hey there Phamily & Dawn Patrol of Phetasy!šAnd of course you Triggeratti & Fascinating Bigots that roam the Nometry! I hope you all have had a good weekend thus far.
A few quotes on charity seem fitting for a Sunday morning. Not the gimme' money kind of charity, but rather response born of awareness of one's plenty and another's need. That I choose to response and help another, not at gun point, not under the direction (or boot) of a government, but rather out of my own personal awareness and response to the need of the person(s) I see before me.
I cannot do everything,Ā
But still I can do something;Ā
And because I cannot do everything,Ā
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale, Ten Times One is Ten
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. - Sydney Smith, lecture āOn the Conduct of the Understandingā at. Royal Institution
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb, "Table Talk by the late Elia" in The Athenaeum, 4 January 1834
Happy Sunday Friends!
Winter Church - Weston Turville, England
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman FranƧois-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the āSun Kingā (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, Voltaireās main love was writingāan 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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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
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The Beautiful
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Said the Disciple to the Lover, āSir, 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.Ā Were they then speaking the truth?ā
The Lover answered, āThose 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.Ā 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.ā
