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Bittersweet Tess
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Peace is in solitude and books
Katılım Eylül 2023
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@bitsweetTess Word is Kent was a Bernie Sanders guy. A Socialist. He threw gasoline on volatile situation without any proof.
Hate continues & sadly after many decades if not centuries history repeats.
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@TheClemHale He was a rare combination of intellect and courage
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@bitsweetTess Lincoln has so many profound quotes. Thanks for this one, Tess.
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@mimnermo8888 We deserve spring, amico. Happy Friendship Friday! 💜
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@bitsweetTess Happy Friendship Friday to you. Spring has just arrived in Italy.
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For in your quiet presence, even the restless tide would seem at peace.
Bittersweet Tess@bitsweetTess
If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day, And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old, I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray, Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold. —Christina Rossetti
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@ElenaRae644820 love the idea of exploring and taking responsibility for what we carry within.
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If change feels hard, it’s not a lack of willpower—it’s a misunderstanding of how change works.
Willpower can force short-term shifts. Lasting change comes from consistent choice over time.
But consistency requires stable awareness.
Stable awareness requires embodiment.
Embodiment requires regulation.
And regulation comes from emotional integration.
This is the real process.
Change doesn’t start with controlling behaviour—it starts with taking responsibility for what we carry within.
And maybe, at first, it begins as a belief:
that beneath everything, we are not broken—
we are oriented toward love, and therefore toward goodness.

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@blindete Love them both, but especially Cassatt’s celebration of motherhood
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The info about ARTISTS BORN IN 1800 TO 1849 – Part 1 is from Google and Copilot. Images credit to many sites.
Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) had a famously spiky friendship with Degas. They admired each other deeply, but both were stubborn and opinionated. Their arguments were legendary—yet Degas once said she was one of the few artists he truly respected.
Cassatt was the only American to exhibit with the French Impressionists.

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Beau cliche!
Quel courage faut-il pour etre mere!
Bittersweet Tess@bitsweetTess
"Love begins with paying attention to others, with an act of gracious self-forgetting. This is the condition in which we grow." —John O'Donohue
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@MikeFrye0511 @bitsweetTess Happy Friday Michael, wishing you joy, peace, and light.
May we find adventure along the way.
🙏

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@bitsweetTess Perhaps Lincoln had a specific ethical context in mind. I tend to critique rather continuously, more so when sympathy is in short supply ;)
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@TroyCFisher Good morning, Troy. Wishing us both a great Friendship Friday 😊
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@Isabelle85995 Ciao, Bellissima 😁
Wishing you a happy Friendship Friday 💜
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@bitsweetTess Right! 🫶
Happy Friendship Friday, dear Tess! 🤗 ☕️🥐
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@breakfreeandfly Happy Friendship Friday, Michelle! Have a wonderful day! 💜
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@blindete how interesting about the cataracts. I had no idea.
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@Tom_Lisi Good morning, Tom. Another amazing Friendship Friday for us to celebrate 😄☀️🐦⬛
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@ninaslostnfound So beautifully expressed.
It reminds me tearing up at one of my daughters’ baby pictures, while simultaneously frowning about my arm looking fat on it 😆
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"The world is both burning and blooming.
You get the bad news
and the sunrise in the same day.
You cry over the headlines,
then you laugh at a baby
wearing a hat shaped like a bear.
This is the dual citizenship
of being alive.
Rage and reverence,
grief and grace.
You are allowed to feel both.
You are allowed to scream,
and still notice how good the soup is.
You don't have to choose.
Let it all in."
- Karen Salmansohn

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