Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Thursday ADD Irregulars, WSN Vagabonds, Friends & Refugees, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Conversants & Lurkers, Phamily & Dawn Patrol, Triggeratti, Fascinating People & Merry Bigots, Seekers of Sanity & Civility and all the rest of you fine souls that visit and patronizes Locals and its many communities. Alfred Adler is up up to bat. Off to Big Al and his quotes and the usual commentary from your friendly neighborhood Friar!
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
BOOM!!! Welcome to the world were we follow our heart and discard our brain. "Don't confuse me with the facts, I've made up my mind." I know it is tiring to be a skeptic in life, and you can't be a skeptic about everything, but being skeptical about trusting people who are making or protecting their personal wealth is a good place to begin. Money and its privileges should always be suspect. Who is making it, who is protecting it, who is losing it are all good questions to keep in the forefront of your questions and criticisms.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
I have to laugh at that and say fair enough. My answer to that is from Lewi Carol and Alice in Wonderland. You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are. My life is blessed with some of the best people I have met in person and on-line.
We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears and to feel with her heart.
I see what Al did there - I guess he believes in the power and reality of pronouns. Anything that can broaden our point of view is a gain. Anything that prompts us to probe for deeper understanding is worth the effort. The only caveat to that is working against the clock. If you have a deadline, keeping it may matter more than continuing to ask and probe and realize it is time to act. Good friends helps you discern that line preparation and action.
And finally for all you Mom's out there. - Thank you.
A woman who contributes to the life of mankind by the occupation of motherhood is taking as high a place in the division of human labor as anyone else could take. If she is interested in the lives of her children and is paving the way for them to become fellow men, if she is spreading their interests and training them to cooperate, her work is so valuable that it can never be rightly rewarded.
Abandoned Barn Middle Brook, MO
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.
