Category: One-Liner Wednesday

One-Liner Wednesday: Dept. of Education

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, calls for the elimination of the Department of Education and limitations on federally supported services such as special education, school meals, Title IX, and student loans. (pp. 319-361)

This information is provided to assist US voters as they make decisions for this year’s election as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday series, which you may learn more about here: https://lindaghill.com/2024/07/10/one-liner-wednesday-i-love-my-neighbourhood-2/. (#1linerWeds are usually fun and/or inspirational. I’m just in serious political mode these days…)

One-Liner Wednesday: wisdom from Meister Eckhart

“Meister Eckhart instructs us that to ignore our capacity to give birth, to run from our responsibility to create, is to run from goodness itself: If human beings have something that they do not bestow on others, they are not good.”
~Matthew Fox

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One-Liner Wednesday: debate checklist

This non-partisan checklist (from NETWORK, based on Catholic social justice principles which are shared by many people of faith, as well as totally secular people) will assist viewers of the US presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump tomorrow (Thursday, June 27 at 9 PM EDT) in tracking the candidates’ views on a range of issues.

This public service announcement comes to you as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday series. Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2024/06/26/one-liner-wednesday-have-you-ever/

One-Liner Wednesday: hope

Hope is not the certainty that things will turn out as we wish, but the conviction that some things are worth doing no matter how they turn out.

Vaclav Havel

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One-Liner Wednesday: prescience

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

– Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Republican – Maine) addressing the Senate on June 1, 1950 near the beginning of McCarthyism

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One-Liner Wednesday: AGO Members concert!

Binghamton area folks are cordially invited to attend the Members Recital of our local chapter of the American Guild of Organists on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 4 PM at the United Presbyterian Church of Binghamton, 42 Chenango Street.

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One-Liner Wednesday: “First Grandchild” on Silver Birch Press

Sharing that my poem about my mom, “First Grandchild,” is now part of the ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER series on Silver Birch Press; my blog post about it is here.

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One-Liner Wednesday: woodpecker

A family of woodpeckers turned our house into theirs.

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One-Liner Wednesday: Life-long learning

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Gloria Steinem

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One-Liner Wednesday: RBG

Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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