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  1. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

    In addition to, not as a substitute for, individual responsibility, there is a collective responsibility.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #collective #individual #individuality #mutualresponsibility #personalresponsibility #responsibility #togetherness #socialcontract

  2. @elsua54
    People staying #anonymous while showing dangers reasonably almost can't be bad, or want focus more clearly more #aesthetic things like names and trained etiquette (though might have their place / can work for some).

    Layers on top miss the core problem and bad platform that life is built on- if it's uncaring and if #banks use money for war while you 'save' etc etc.

    Maybe there isn't a 1-shot #solution now but agreeing on this is a big step to real #togetherness later.

  3. A BetTER Day

    Independence has its day,
    when o’er the skies fireworks display,
    and dependence, too, is good,
    as every tender spirit should

    learn the grace of being held,
    when pride is hushed, and fear is quelled.
    But methinks we need another name,
    a deeper word, a wider frame.

    It happens after we let one IN,
    past the surface, past the skin,
    past the guarded gates we keep,
    past the places where hurt runs deep.

    In the space before DEPEND,
    we see the other as vital friend,
    all as branches from one tree,
    as the grains of sand receive the sea.

    Then add three letters, soft but true,
    TER arrives and makes it new.
    Not just me and not just thee,
    but something born between the three.

    In-TER-dependence names the art
    of hand in hand and heart to heart,
    while I am I, and you are you,
    something sacred binds us too.

    Independence stands alone,
    dependence leans on flesh and bone,
    but interdependence humbly sings:
    we rise by sharing roots and wings.

    July 4, 2015 (updated June 2026)

    #Belonging #bridgeMetaphor #ChristianReflection #commonGood #Community #Connection #DeclarationOfInterdependence #dependence #faithAndCommunity #Hospitality #independence #independenceDay #July4 #July4thReflection #lettingOthersIn #mutualAid #peace #PeaceGrooves #Peacemaking #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #sacredMiddle #socialHealing #Spirituality #SuggestedWordPressTagsInterdependence #togetherness #Unity #Words #Writing
  4. A quotation from Montaigne

    As for the duties of marital love that some people consider injured by absence, I do not believe it. On the contrary, it is a relationship that is readily cooled by too continual association, and harmed by assiduity. Every strange woman seems to us an attractive woman. And every man feels by experience that seeing one another continually cannot match the pleasure of parting and being together again at intervals.
     
    [Quant aux devoirs de l’amitié maritale, qu’on pense estre interessez par cette absence: je ne le crois pas. Au rebours, c’est une intelligence, qui se refroidit volontiers par une trop continuelle assistance, & que l’assiduité blesse. Toute femme estrangere nous semble honneste femme: Et chacun sent par experience, que la continuation de se voir, ne peut representer le plaisir que lon sent à se desprendre, & reprendre à secousses.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 3, ch. 9 (3.9), “Of Vanity [De la vanité]” (1587) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #absence #familiarity #freshstart #freshness #love #marriage #relationship #reunion #reuniting #spouse #togetherness

  5. #Fotovorschlag - Thema "Einsamkeit"

    DE
    #Einsamkeit oder #Zweisamkeit? Das Motiv lässt viele Interpretationen zu - sogar auch "gemeinsam einsam" ... was meint Ihr?

    EN
    #Loneliness or #togetherness? The image is open to many interpretations – even ‘lonely together’… what do you think?

    #photosuggestion
    #Monochrome
    #blackwhite
    #OwnWork
    #Herz
    #Heart
    #Zaun
    #SilentSunday
    #Fence
    #Photography
    #Fotografie
    #notAIgenerated
    #Pentax
    #pentaxk3mkiiimono
    #pentax_da2040

  6. A quotation from Jean Kerr

       Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertilizer, the writer and his wife sit on the fence — with a wonderful sense of “togetherness” — and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets.
       I can understand that. Around our house, we’re pretty busy, and of course we’re not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband and I often sit together in the deepening twilight and listen to the sweet, gentle slosh-click, slosh-click of the dishwasher. He smiles and I smile. Oh, it’s a golden moment.

    Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
    Essay (1955-08-01), “Greenwich, Anyone?” Vogue Magazine

    More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #countryside #couple #evening #marriage #moment #pause #romance #twilight #interlude #togetherness

  7. A message for my Fediverse friends from today's calendar page 😁

    Art by @thelatestkate

    PS. Check out #JoinIn if you want to chat with someone on here

    #Kindness #Togetherness #Friends #Yule #Cats