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Posted February 26, 2021
It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"
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​       Villa d'Este near Rome 1963

Anna-grams 
​​● I’ve been shot again. No reaction to the vaccine this time either. I’d heard people were more likely to have a reaction to the second shot, but both Luciano and I have no side effects. 

Weekly Anagrams
● Russian revolution = No evil ruinous tsar

● Chairman Gates = A magnate's rich

● Charles Darwin's theory of evolution = Soul of vital, narrow, chosen heredity


Weekly Quotes by
Faith Ringgold

● "I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it."

● “You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.”

● “Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it."
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You had one job....​
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February 27 is national and international Polar Bear Day
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​Observation Days
​February is:

● International Month of Black Women in The Arts  Link
● North American Inclusion Month (NAIM) 
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● Pet Dental Health Month
● National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
● National Hot Breakfast Month

This Coming Week is:
● Engineering Week 31-27
● National Conference on Education: 26-28
● Texas Cowboy Poetry Week: 27-28
● National Conference on Education: 26-28
● Texas Cowboy Poetry Week: 27-28

February 26 is:
● National Chili Day Link
● National Personal Chef's Day Link
● For Pete's Sake Day
● Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day
● Levi Strauss Day
● National Bacon Day Link or Link
● World Pistachio Day Link


New Dictionary Words in 2021 
● ​Digital Blackface = the use by white people of digital depictions of Black or brown people or skin tones especially for the purpose of self-representation or self-expression.
● hard pass = a firm refusal or rejection of something (such as an offer)
● performative disapproving = made or done for show (as to bolster one’s own image or make a positive impression on others)
● decarceration =“release from imprisonment,” and also as “the practice or policy of reducing the number of people subject to imprisonment.”


Source: https://parade.com/1155266/jerylbrunner/new-words-in-dictionary/​

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