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Barbra Streisand’s tribute to Robert Redford literally brought me to tears. I did not expect her to break out into song but when she did, it totally broke me. This has been an exceptionally emotional #Oscar night but done with absolute class & thoughtfulness. What a moment.

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Folk say Shakespeare is hard to understand, but it isn’t when it is delivered like this by Ian McKellen. Amazing how the language flows and stops to flow again, immediately comprehensible even to the modern ear. Both of them geniuses in their own way.

A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope, and now you know why 🦋💙

1st-2nd February is Imbolc, a Gaelic festival celebrating the impending lambing season and the birth of new life. A Scottish legend tells that the arrival of snowdrops infuriates Beira, Queen of Winter, so she brings frost and snow as she battles to keep her hold. #FolkloreSunday

Lady Gaga performed Elton John’s “Your Song” in front of him and absolutely nailed it!💖

Here is Bruce Springsteen's new music video for Streets of Minneapolis:

"We have tasted, in the hours of miracle, a certain quality of human relationships: that is where the truth lies for us". - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (art by Lucy Almey Bird)

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them…An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.” ~ Tony Benn

A four month old horse's reaction to its trip to the ocean for the first time..

11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are: themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/yes…

“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.” — Hannah Arendt

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” Time for Toni Morrison: themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/ton…

This little Shetland pony

Horses reuniting after a long time apart

scenes on a train

“For broken dreams, the cure is, dream again and deeper.” C.S. Lewis Image: Moonboat by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #NewYear #FolkloreSunday