Good Morning, Digital Neighbors! Blessed Tuesday to all you Friends & Refugees, Early Birds & Later Dayer, Conversants, Lurkers and Wanderers on the Report, to all you joyful Misfits, Political Homeless, Dawn Patrol and PHAM drinking deeply of the Phetasy and finally you treasured Curmudgeons, Weird Shit Niche (WSN) Curators, ADD Irregulars and Outliers at Padre’s. Blessed and happy Tuesday to each and all of you! More beauty, one can never have enough.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without getting too preachy, even if that is in my wheelhouse of life, one of the problems with the Toxic Left is no concept of beauty. They reject traditional concepts of beauty as being contaminated by sexism, racism, transphobia, fatphobia and a host of yet unarticulated phobias or ISMs. One may say that beauty is the eye of the beholder, but there are some people trying hard to convince the rest of us that the ugly, outlandish and repulsive is beautiful and that you are just a hateful bigot. While there are culturally conditioned norms of attraction and beauty among people, nature’s beauty is hard to dispute. If you want to find beauty, you must discover some beauty within your own life. I pray that someone or something has awakened you to beauty in your life and evoked a desire to find more. I am thankful for the friends, authors, artists, and musicians that have done that for me. My life is all the richer because they are part of my story and pilgrimage through life.
Autumn Creek - Leslie Ellis - Unsplash
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 ...
Happy National Best Friends Day Y'all!
I strongly suggest combining celebrations for this with National Name Your Poison Day and National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day. Think I'll have to wash a custard doughnut down with a cold beer later.
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.
