<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thanks Abe ~ reminds me of this quote from Howard Zinn.</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""> ~ which just so happened to be laying here in front of me this morning! ~~~ ~ m. 🙏 💛⚡️</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A29E136C-0E01-4CE0-83D5-F713D2F0A617" src="cid:14B09809-E64D-4E72-A33F-130044D3BEE6@lan" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="text-align: center;" class=""> TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.</span><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. </div></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, </div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. </div></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">The future is an infinite succession of presents, </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">and to live now as we think human beings should live, </div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” </div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">― Howard Zinn</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="text-align: center;" class=""> </span><div class=""><span style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: center;" class=""> </span><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 8, 2024, at 6:56 AM, Mike Abell via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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