“I was writing on them doors. And I was releasing myself. I painted things I could remember that my grandmother said to me. And I kept painting and painting until I filled the yard up. And my spirit was relieved. The hurting was being taken away. The painting brought me through.”

Jon Stewart's takeaway from tonight's Biden-Trump debate

“our country moving closer to its own truth and dread . . .” poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/wh…

“. . . in 1822 he painted one of his most audacious canvases . . . two generals, one mixed-race and the other Black, swearing an oath to fight together for the freedom and independence of the people of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).” (gift link) wapo.st/4eWTWTJ

“It’s not possible to constantly hone on the crisis. You have to have the love, and you have to have the magic. That’s also life.” —Toni Morrison, 1977 youtu.be/_vgEhN4fypw?si…

With eternal thanks from a grateful nation for a lifetime of service.

“What we don’t know about the natural world always far exceeds what we do. But one of the loveliest character traits of our species is curiosity.” nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opi…

FACT CHECK: Trump told 162 lies in 64 minutes at his press conference this week. That’s more than two a minute. And that's why the media should not give him live TV coverage to spread his misinformation. npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-…