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A quotation from Josh Billings
The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
[The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85419/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestors #family #familytree #forefathers #heritage #legacy #reputation
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A quotation from Richard Steele
The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85367…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #ancestors #authors #era #forefathers #generations #goldenage #goodolddays #greatness #literarycriticism #nostalgia #past #perspective #present #writers
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Our Ancestors
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Few match their fathers. Any tongue can tell
The more are worse: yea, almost none their sires excel.
[παῦροι γάρ τοι παῖδες ὁμοῖοι πατρὶ πέλονται,
οἱ πλέονες κακίους, παῦροι δέ τε πατρὸς ἀρείους.]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 2, l. 276ff (2.276) [Athena to Telemachus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Worsley (1861), st. 37]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49638/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #telemachus #ancestors #challenge #child #decadence #disappointment #father #generations #improvement #parent #parentage #progress #regress #son
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I fucking #love #digging holes...
...that #shit connects me to my #ancestors...
#Dirt is the original media of #craft
Posted by an actual bus @renardboy
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The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue
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Adena Queen
The mound rose before me, green and silent beneath a storm-dark sky. Ancient. Patient. Waiting. Read full poem by clicking 🔗🖤 - Kandi -
@davidtheeviloverlord
Yes! Exactly. And I don’t know when Hanson’s own ancestors’ arrived in Australia but surely the same applied to them.
It’s as if the past has been swept free and it all starts now… (except for anyone who she reckons dissed her in the past & must therefore be sacked, fired or defunded or all 3 now).
Bizarre history blindness & total lack of self-awareness.#AusPol #PHON #ancestors #mono #IAmTheMonoThatCounts #selfAwarenessWhatSelfAwareness
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What did ancient humans do all day before ‘work’ was invented? It wasn’t all about survival.
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The REAL Reason the British Look Different From Every Other European | H...
And why there is no such thing as pure English etc blood & why there are no First Nations people native to the UK.
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survival is a
survival is a
#ancestors #atYourDiscretion #body #caution #dailyPost #future #maintain #maintainenance #oneTooMany #oneTooManyTimes #past #poem #poetry #postaday #present #shape #shapeless #survival #survive #tanka #teleport #timeTraveler #timeTraveling #times #travel #unwrap #waka #warning
time traveler, teleporting
back and forth one too
many times to maintain her
shape – unwrap at your discretion
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Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage
I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).
I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look.
This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol.
Here ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes.
#Ancestors #Art #Ballet #beauty #dance #devotion #honoringAncestralLineage #HonoringTheAncestors #lineage #NYCB #pointeShoes -
CW: Nudity, performance art
Speak through me,
Lunatics and heretics of my ancestry
Speak through me,
Lovers of barefoot wilderness and running away
Speak through me,
Feral fawn raised in dirt-floor cabin tamed once yet wild as your garden,
Sheep tenders and agents of death,
Those who fled on ships to immigrant shores
Speak through me with dripping black pitch and the breaking of bread
Of all you've seen, and all you know now#PerformanceArt #Incantations #Witch #Rituals #Ancestors #Invocation
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AI Could Never Feel Its Ancestor’s Tears
May 14, 2026
Things That AI Cannot Do – #11 in a series
It’s another rainy and cold day in May. It’s been that kind of Spring. I’m thankful that the lilacs are taking their time to open into full bloom. They are the surest sign that spring is in full swing, and I want to savor every precious moment. The sight of a lilac bush in bloom can cheer the saddest heart and that intoxicating smell is like heaven. The longer that the lilac hangs on the bush, the happier we are.
Moody weather can sometimes be an incubator for curious thoughts. This morning has me thinking about my ancestors. So many of them left old France for the new one in Canada. My grandfather’s family settled on a small island off the coast of Quebec where they farmed the land. It is an idyllic spot of fertile land sitting there in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River and perfect for growing so many things. The land parcel did not include the possibility of land ownership, and I am sure life for the settlers brought its share of hardships with the remote location and the long harsh winters.
Always looming in the background for so many was that dream of America, that place where life could only be better. My grandfather came to America to work in any job that would have him. He started as a logger in Maine and then found work at the Westport Factory. There he met my grandmother who also heralded from Quebec and together they saved enough to buy some land and start a dairy farm in Dartmouth. It was the life of a farmer come full circle but this time with the privilege of owning their own piece of land.
What a legacy they left for their many children and grandchildren with their heritage of hard work and sacrifice. Still, I wonder if they ever missed their dear old Canada. I wonder if they ever looked back on their decision with a sense of regret. I wonder, from their viewpoint in the great beyond, what they think of their America now. This morning, I felt a sense of sadness that is unexplainable. Life goes on as we make our way through the day of life’s responsibilities, but something feels different. The hopes and dreams and beliefs of our ancestors seem further and further from the reality of our today.
The billionaires are having their day in China rubbing elbows with a hoard of like-minded others. All are hoping to walk away with the best deal for their corporations and for themselves. This world has never seen such a set of rich and greedy humans all existing at one time and in one place. This place is our earth and it belongs to all of us, but our destinies are being decided by those who have the power and those who choose to cozy up next to it.
The earth has only a finite source of riches, and its wealth is meant to span the eons. Somehow, without our choosing, the pie is being divided for us, and we can see that we’ve been allotted the smallest sliver. Our country was founded by those that gave their heart and soul for the following generations to have a better life. Will that continue to be possible for our children and grandchildren? Today, the raindrops feel like tears falling, and I can sense my ancestor’s sadness in my bones. I can feel their calling to not give up on the America that they helped to build.
Their message is one that we know to be true: Be strong America. We’ve got a hell of a lot of work ahead of us, but we’ve done hard things before.
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Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
#HackerNews #sleepdeprivation #parenting #modernparents #ancestors #babycare
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Beneath the Feather of Ma’at
There, where the heart is weighed against the feather of Ma’at, I feel his presence— Anubis, patient and precise, his touch neither cruel nor kind, but lingering… knowing.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/beneath-the-feather-of-maat/
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I've experienced this many times. I'm proud to have come from a long line of strong, powerful women, and to have grown up in a #Matriarchy .
#ancestors
#metis
#ikwe
#metiswoman
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Half Shadow, Half Hymn
I belong to the night— to the corridors where ghosts grow honest, where they shed the polite lie of absence and breathe again through memory’s ribs. Where ancestors press their mouths to my ear, whispering in bone-language, where the veil hangs in tatters— not a barrier, but a dare. Love lives here. Even after the burial. Even after the last goodbye forgets its own echo. I have felt the universe inhale— a slow, cosmic breath beneath the skin of thought, binary bones […]https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/half-shadow-half-hymn/
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Forgotten Keepers of the #RioGrandeDelta
An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.
by Dylan Baddour
May 13, 2024"This society has been trying to get rid of #Mancias’ people for 500 years. It couldn’t kill them all, so it’s destroying the evidence that they ever existed. That’s what Mancias sees as 100-ton bulldozers flatten the hills his #ancestors camped on, churn up their bones, and casually crush them into rubble, removing these last traces of their world.
" 'They almost annihilated us, and that #genocide continues,' Mancias said. 'To destroy the #environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.'
"He faces a formidable foe here at the last frontier for oil and gas on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Every other major inlet from the Mississippi River west through Port Arthur, Houston, Freeport, Lavaca Bay, and Corpus Christi is already ringed with #refineries, #ChemicalPlants, and terminals.
"But at the farthest tip of #Texas, the #RioGrande meets the Gulf between #WildlifeRefuges, a #StatePark, and a majestic #wilderness that still shelters endangered and little-known #wildlife.
"This is where Houston-based developer #NextDecade has begun constructing an $18 billion #MegaProject, which it called the 'largest greenfield energy project [financed] in U.S. history' when it announced in 2023 that it had secured investors to proceed.
"Named #RioGrandeLNG, the 750-acre facility will eventually pipe in up to 27 million tons per year of gas from #fracked wells in the #PermianBasin, supercool it to negative 260 degrees fahrenheit, and load it onto #TankerShips for sale overseas as liquefied natural gas (#LNG). It’s part of an explosion of lookalike projects that quickly made the United States the world’s top exporter of liquefied gas and drove soaring gas production at home.
"On an adjacent tract, another project called Texas LNG intends to build atop a site called #GarciaPasture—an ancient village ground where people lived seasonally for almost 800 years. The World Monument Fund calls it 'one of America’s premier #archaeological sites.' That project has its permits and awaits investor commitments before breaking ground.
"And about 5 miles away, #SpaceX continues to expand its #Starbase complex, where it manufactures and launches the most powerful #rockets in the world (which occasionally explode and fall to earth).
"Mancias fears this is just the beginning.
" 'All of this will be gone,' he said, driving his pickup truck down a highway through the marshes. 'They’re going to destroy all of this.' "
Read more:
https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/#DefendingTheSacred #SacredSites
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35 #IconicPhotos in history and their inspiring backstories: https://zorz.it/aTVpQ
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