Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Sunday ADD Irregulars and all Visitors to the Weird Shit Niche' (WSN)! I am glad you were able to stop in today for a visit and a scroll.
A prayer for Rich @eclecticRPT as he heads out on RAGBRAI or Ragnarök (Twilight of the Cyclists) as some have taken to calling it in the community.
Lord, of all good life, we thank you for leisure
which gives us space to enjoy beauty of thought
and sound and sight in our busy, driven world.
We thank you for the enrichment given to us
through art and literature, music and dancing,
for the satisfying search after beauty in the common
things of everyday, our furniture, our cups and
saucers, our cloths, our handicrafts, our gardens.
We thank you that you have given both our pleasures
and the capacity to enjoy them. Keep us generous
in our enjoyment and save us from all forms of
selfishness which keeps us in bondage instead of setting
us free to live fully in our leisure as well as in our work.
We ask it for Your name's sake Amen.
RAGBRAI 2018 from the Sioux City Journal
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
6:00 AM - 8:00 AM (CST)
Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
Coffee Talk - Daily beginning at 6:00 AM Central Time Zone - USA
White Pilled Wednesday - A break from the heaviness of news and current events to focus upon things more personal & positive for the first hour of Coffee Talk.
Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central
Other chats as posted in the community.
