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Awinita
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I'm nothing if not eclectic: #Nature #Science #Politics #Poetry I consider "family" any creature that suckles its young... and I'm crazy about trees😎 I trawl Muskville for you & post the best I find.😎
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Can Mamdani still lose?
Will NY elect a muslim mayor?

The Democratic candidate, unknown just a year ago, is leading the race; polls give him around 45% of the vote, way ahead of main rival, independant Andrew Cuomo, (30%) and Curtis Sliwa, Republican, (15%)
#QuantumPolitics
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‘A man has no duty to a sovereign who lacks the power to protect him’

Thomas Hobbes
sufi poets are really the cat's pyjamas
“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

— Herbert Marcuse
Life must be rich and full of loving -
it's no good otherwise, no good at all,
for anyone.

Jack Kerouac
from: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

― Aldous Huxley
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Claudette hoped they took Apple Pay, because all she had on her were a few small bills.
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“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
― Elizabeth Peters
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“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
-- Erich Fromm
The natural world should not just be someplace you go to
on weekends or holidays. Fortunate indeed are those who can see at least a tree from their bedroom window
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

— Ernest Hemingway