Matthew Dowd
Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication.
- happy bday Canadian writer E. J. Pratt, b.1882. “The mark of the educated man (or woman) is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men (women) on the top of them, and that,...
- ...though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.”
- happy bday iconic Rosa Parks, b.1913, Tuskegee, AL “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...so other people would be also free.” “To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, & do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
- For years I believed we needed our own version of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I now believe the first step in perfecting our Union is our version of the Nuremberg trials. Maybe center it in Minneapolis and hold all cruel federal public officials accountable.
- "A land built by immigrants And now under attack A land of beautiful snows And of ugly ICE A land of a Good mom and poet And of a Pretti veteran’s nurse Taken by force Killed by hate..." open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
- happy bday artist Norman Rockwell, b.1894, NYC. "I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
- happy bday newspaper editor/publisher Horace Greeley, b.1811, Amherst, NH. "I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot." "Bigotry is chronic dogmatism." “I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
- "For all the bad They show us the good For all the forces of hate They reveal the power of love Though we can feel lost They show us how to be found When the compass Of our country seems broken" open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
- "A land of beautiful snows And of ugly ICE A land of a Good mom and poet And of a Pretti veteran’s nurse Taken by force Killed by hate" open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
- my latest substack, a poem inspired by our Minnesota sisters and brothers. open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
- happy bday writer James Dickey, b. 1922, Atlanta, GA. “With my foot on the water, I feel The moon outside, Take on the utmost of its power. I rise and go out through the boats. I set my broad soul upon silver, On the skin of the sky, on the moonlight,...
- ...Stepping outward from the earth onto water In quest of the miracle.”
