by MM | Jul 30, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🌈 “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner 🏆 Description: Author William Faulkner in 1954 Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number...
by MM | Jul 29, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🏞️ “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln 🌿 Description: Scholars and enthusiasts alike believe this portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address, to be...
by MM | Jul 28, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🌈 “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Thomas Jefferson 🕊️ Description: Thomas JeffersonSource: White House Historical AssociationAuthor: Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860) On this day, let’s remember that maintaining our freedoms requires constant...
by MM | Jul 27, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🎶 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë 🦅 Description: Charlotte Brontë, chalk, 1850. Colour closer to NPG version than CBRichmond.jpg Source: Cropped from Charlotte Brontë (Mrs A.B....
by MM | Jul 26, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🌿 “The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty.” George Mason 📰 Description: Portrait of George Mason (1725-1792), American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. He is called the...
by MM | Jul 25, 2024 | Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
🏅 “Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche 🌟 Description: Friedrich Nietzsche, circa 1875.Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/10/0b/04100baec90c105729b47f33c371476b.jpg Author: Friedrich Hermann...