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@CharlotteCGill Horrifying.

I don’t really get how we ended up decriminalising abortion up to birth. It seems to have come out of nowhere and is very sad. It actually reminds me of reading about Sparta or Chinese girls left to die. Call me old fashioned but what about letting people adopt the babies?

@JamesLucasIT They used a rotograph to trace movement of live models.

We grew up watching hand drawn Disney and now it's just gone. We don't talk about this enough.

@SoledadFrancis I am a teacher with a house filled with books. I read to my son every night and he always asked for more. But as an adult, he does not read. Not sure why.

Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.

@DrFrancisYoung @simonmontefiore @RoyalFamily Like Sarah Mullally this week. Great strides.

@simonmontefiore @RoyalFamily I wonder if the image of the King as a walker will be the defining image of his legacy and distinctive character - I keep thinking back to that incident when tourists in Scotland met him just walking alone in the Highlands

What a delightful achievement this is: King Charles III leads walkers along this wonderfuil King Charles III England Coast Path, inaugurated on Thursday, the world’s longest managed coastal walking route — and a triumph for those who lobbied for it. @RoyalFamily thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…

@DrFrancisYoung @simonmontefiore @RoyalFamily And we met him on a Scottosh island where he was being reclusive. Later a film was made on Berneray where he quipped the press will label him a hermit. ‘Headlines will say I’ll Plough my own field, says Charles,’ he laughed.

@beyondreasdoubt Kids in NYC say M’am?

only in nyc … waiting for the subway and I’m leaning against the benches next to some guy … young kid comes up to me and whispers “hey ma’am, I don’t think you want to stand there, he’s smoking crack” thank you, kid

@JedPumblechook @paul_jkrause Ah the internet where even Byron gets distorted.

@paul_jkrause er, 'To Caroline' was written in 1807, he met Lamb in 1812, and 'She walks in beauty' was written about his cousin's wife, who was in mourning - it's quite a famous story

Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb. They had a great love story, also told through poetry.

@paul_jkrause It was a rather pathetic love story with a broken woman clinging to a man who knew it was over from the start. British Romanticism is one thing but romanticising a wild but sad affair is another.

@ArchbishopSarah Thank you for keeping pilgrimage alive.

Day two of the pilgrimage. Reflection at Lesnes Abbey, Morning Prayer at St John the Baptist in Erith, and a lovely visit with pupils at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School. Pilgrimage teaches us to keep walking - step by step - sustained by prayer and community.

Byron and Jesus Acrylic on canvas 9x12

@cusackandrew And he thought he was tough for fighting a bear! Any New Yorker could take him. Left Saint Thomas church on Friday late after movie night and Fifth Avenue was splendid!

Davy Crockett visited New York in 1834 but found there were “too many people… and too close together”.

@irongirly79 You are beautiful!

@Redrorie You’re a mother, world traveler, scholar, braille teacher, artist and writer! You’ve lead a life most can only dream of. Difficult at times, but never broken. You are what we all aspire to be.

Even a broken life has its moments

@mazzyyyyyyy Same in Westchester.

the laundromat is like $2.50 for wash and $2 for dryer………

@Matt_Pinner Walked in the fifties and I can read well. Still walking and reading everyday.

Anyone here a 50s-70s kid who went to school no matter the weather, rain or snow? Did you walk every day or ride the bus?

@JedPumblechook @MarrloEd He has to read The Last Man by Mary Shelley to see how she idolized him. Polidori did too but could not measure up. Sad post.

@MarrloEd learn some more, as per your bio

I do think it's funny that when you realize Frankenstein and The Vampyre were written by two people who really fucking hated Lord Byron it becomes clear how the villians of those stories are just the most scathing caricature that Shelley and Polidori could make of him.

@ReshapersCIC @SewellMartin @Rgt71Robert Is is okay to use Jesus as a prophet when our savior died for our sins and is our God? Of course it is okay to believe your way but it is not the same as Christians see God.

@SewellMartin @Rgt71Robert Not disputed. But I've had conversations with Muslims whose understanding of God is closer to mine than some Christians.

The argument in this piece is that an iftar in a church is “misplaced hospitality”. I understand the instinct here, but the theologies of hospitality and saved space are broader than the other admits. Scripture is clear: God’s grace is encountered precisely in welcoming the stranger and before we fully understand who they are or what they believe: Abraham welcomes unknown guests at Mamre; Jesus eats with prostitutes and sinners; Hebrews says welcoming strangers is entertaining “angels unawares” A church building does not stop being Christian because generosity is shown within it. They are spaces where the life of the lo community meets the life of the ecclesia: feeding the hungry, sheltering the vulnerable, hosting civic gatherings, and sometimes making room for neighbours. Hosting an Iftar does not mean we are abandoning the Trinity or Creeds. It just means we recognise that living faithfully in a plural society requires friendship as well as conviction. In a place like #Kilburn the real scandal would not be hospitality that goes too far but rather a church so anxious about its identity that it cannot open its doors to its neighbours. Jesus border crossed. So should we.

@AnneOfTheBooks Audio books are fine but they not books. You don’t read them. Writing is encoding. Reading is decoding symbols.

I will always advocate for owning physical copies of favorite/important books, but I refuse to join the snobbish movement of folks who think audio books are “cheating” and should be avoided by all “real” book lovers.

@Komanoff We didn’t have many days of ice skating there this year because it did not stay frozen for long. Great photo.

@Redrorie I did ... to catch the train to Grand Central! En route I skirted Tarrytown Lake(s), still iced over (barely) in sections. Lovely!

3 hours — not even — by bike from lower Manhattan. Metro-North another hour away. I am fortunate.

@arthur_spirling Trig

What should we cut from the current curriculum to make time for wallpapering class?