Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Thursday ADD Irregulars, WSN Curators, Friends & Refugees, PHAM & Misfits, Conversants, Lurkers, Seekers and Lost! A little prayer for all you wonderful laundry persons in our lives that we often just take for granted. Thank you ❤️
THE WASH PRAYER
On the best days I offer
this invisible work, this work
so easily undone.
So when the memory of sleep
is smoothed from beds,
when breakfast bowls return
to their cupboard I begin
the litany of laundry
sadly astonished to see again
the hill of clothes slumped
in the wicker basket,
all their pride gone, their lives
inhabiting other garments.
And if it’s a good day I lovingly
sort dark socks and wadded trousers
from the baby’s white T-shirts
and his sister’s pastels.
Into the vessel, faithful as a truck,
they go, to churn and swirl
in their mysterious froth
making shapes I cannot see.
And after the dryer revives
each wet skin I sit
and fold these clothes into
safety, health, laughter, home.
LISA ZIMMERMAN
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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