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19 Apr 2024 23:34

First iris is blooming 🥰

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19 Apr 2024 22:43

I believe for the majority of mainstream Americans, seeing a bunch of happy, engaged kids out and about brings them joy. The values of family and children resonates deeply. We often have people stop and tell us how nice it is to see our large, happy family, and it reminds them of their own upbringing. This past week, a stranger we had chatted with at a restaurant secretly paid for our meal and we only found out when we were leaving (and it was too late to thank them in person). The meal made me grateful, not just for the boon to our budget but for reminding us of how generous our folk are and demonstrating that our values are more common than the media wants us to believe.

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19 Apr 2024 21:31

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19 Apr 2024 19:21

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16 Apr 2024 06:21

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”

~Plotinus, The Enneads

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16 Apr 2024 02:19

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15 Apr 2024 22:17

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15 Apr 2024 18:15

"As long as we are thinking of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing the sand and sowing the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of the spirit. Collective activities are, of course, necessary, but this is the end to which they are necessary.”

~C.S. Lewis

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13 Apr 2024 05:36

Isaiah 49:15-16

15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me."

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13 Apr 2024 03:45

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

~Edmund Burke

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13 Apr 2024 03:05

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."

- Plato -
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13 Apr 2024 02:03

“When you say that [without faith, a man can no more receive Christ or take any steps towards it than a dead man can walk or speak,] I respond:

1. This doesn’t prove that faith is equivalent to a power or capacity in the same way. It simply highlights its absolute necessity without addressing its nature. For example, if you show an illiterate person a Greek or Hebrew book, they can’t read it, just like a dead person can’t—both scenarios are truly impossible in a combined sense. However, in one case, it’s merely a lack of skill or habit, while in the other, it’s a natural ability. Similarly, it’s true that a habitual sinner may struggle to do good, just as a leopard can’t change its spots or a person can’t change their skin color. Yet, if you’re suggesting that they’re equally distant from actual change as a dead person, it’s not an accurate comparison. A dead person lacks both natural faculties and moral inclination or power, while an unbeliever lacks only the latter.”

—Richard Baxter
‘The Reduction of a Digressor’

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13 Apr 2024 01:24

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. —Romans 12:21

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13 Apr 2024 00:01

@𝐍єØⓃ 乃𝑜𝕆𝕄乃ᵒχ

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12 Apr 2024 23:24

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day."

Robert Frost

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19 Apr 2024 23:24

Spring By William Blake

"Sound the Flute!
Now it's mute.
Birds delight
Day and Night.
Nightingale
In the dale
Lark in Sky
Merrily
Merrily Merrily to
welcome in the Year

Little Boy
Full of joy.
Little Girl
Sweet and small,
Cock does crow
So do you.
Merry voice
Infant noise
Merrily Merrily to
welcome in the Year

Little Lamb
Here I am,
Come and lick
My white neck.
Let me pull
Your soft Wool.
Let me kiss
Your soft face.
Merrily Merrily we
welcome in the Year."

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19 Apr 2024 21:57

IMPERIVM presents Forward Friday from 1pm-7pm.

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19 Apr 2024 20:26

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19 Apr 2024 18:16

“Life is the childhood of our immortality.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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16 Apr 2024 04:20

Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882.

~Claude Monet

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16 Apr 2024 00:18

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13 Apr 2024 03:25

“You don’t pray to tell God what you want or what you need. You pray to find out what God wants for you.”

David A. Bednar

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13 Apr 2024 02:43

"In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah."
- Psalm 62:7-8 KJB
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13 Apr 2024 01:44

Those with the ability to console, help, or lead entire legions are often feulled by a mere one or two individuals, who loyalty does so for them.

🎨 Casper David Friedrich

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13 Apr 2024 00:31

Who used to play this? 👀

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12 Apr 2024 23:44

“𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓶𝓮𝓷’𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓼. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵, 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓼, 𝓼𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂; 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓲𝓽 𝓝𝓞𝓦, 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷.”
- 𝓣𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓼 𝓟𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮

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12 Apr 2024 23:04

New original music out now! 🎶🌳🌸
Listen to the full track here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/alisamarie/under-the-blossom-tree