Bits of literature and the humanities as roots of support during personal and global transformation
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Lit Hum retweeted
"Rejoice! The purpose of life is joy. Rejoice at the sky, the sun, the stars, the grass, the trees, animals, people. If this joy is disturbed it means that you’ve made a mistake somewhere. Find your mistake and correct it. Most often this joy is disturbed by money and ambition."
— Leo Tolstoy
Lit Hum retweeted
MASSIVE PROTEST IN ROME TODAY
Protestors in Rome carried a massive symbolic shroud, inscribed with the names of more than 21,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel.
Lit Hum retweeted
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
Lit Hum retweeted
One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.
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"The secret of being happy consists of knowing how to enjoy yourself—enjoy being at table, in bed; enjoy standing up, sitting down; enjoy the nearest ray of sunshine, the slightest bit of landscape. In other words, love everything."
~ Gustave Flaubert
🎨 Henri Matisse
Lit Hum retweeted
This isn't Berlin.
This isn't Soho.
This isn't New York.
It's somewhere far more interesting and friendly....it's Tehran.
The level of misinformation about the country is staggering.
This is what the US is bombing.
For Israel.
Lit Hum retweeted
“In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.”
― Marc Chagall
Lit Hum retweeted
Listening to Art Garfunkel sing Scarborough Fair at 80 years old gave me goosebumps. That golden voice never fades… What a legend! 🫶🫶
Lit Hum retweeted
„Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.“
James Joyce, Ulysses
* February 2, 1882
Lit Hum retweeted
NEWS: Americans are marching through snowfall in Chicago, chanting, protesting, refusing to be silent against ICE.
Freezing temps. Zero fear.
This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Respect to every single person out there putting their body on the line. ✊🫡
Lit Hum retweeted
This is Alex Pretti, the man the Trump admin and Trump supporters call a "domestic terrorist."
Here Pretti is reading the final honors, honoring a soldier who has passed away at the hospital he was a nurse at.
Stop believing Trump's propaganda. He is lying to you! WAKE UP!
Lit Hum retweeted
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Slowed down footage suggests our previous reporting is CORRECT:
An agent may have DISARMED the Minneapolis man BEFORE he was shot and killed by federal agents:
Lit Hum retweeted
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
Lit Hum retweeted
You can see it plain as day: the man was already on the ground, helpless, pinned down by officers, and unarmed. What they did to him was an outright execution. It’s impossible to watch and not feel sick.
#Minneapolis
Lit Hum retweeted
TODAY: Hundreds of thousands in Minnesota braved -10°F weather to march through downtown Minneapolis as part of the statewide general strike demanding ICE out of the Twin Cities.
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BREAKING: A new video of ICE murdering the man in Minneapolis today shows a clear view of what happened from the front angle.
If anyone has the identities of the ice agents who shot this man, please DM me.
The apparently innocent man, who had a license to carry a firearm was merely recording ICE agents, and then ICE began pepper-spraying a young woman next to him. The man then goes to try and pull the young woman to safety when ICE tackles him.
Then multiple agents begin beating on him before shooting and killing him.
This is cold blooded murder!
