November 2020

Busy Bee

This busy bee visited me. Said hello, then let him out the way he flew in. It is Oct. 31 All Saints/All Souls Day Bee History There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out […]

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2 kinds of people

Deng Ming-Dao 5 November 2020 TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE There are two kinds of people. One who sees someone suffering and who says, “That’ll never happen to me.” The other who sees someone suffering and who says, “That could happen to me.” There are two kinds of people. One who has been treated terribly and

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Etty Hillesum

From: Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump These are some quotes from Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman in Amsterdam who was going into higher states of consciousness when Hitler was closing in. Her diary was published posthumously. I am not easily frightened.. Not because I am brave but because I know that

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First Black Woman to Receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester

Meet the First Black Woman to Receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of RochesterDr. Monique Mendes has become the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. The Jamaican-born, first-generation college graduate says the announcement came as a shock to her, not even realizing she had done

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