Another birthday gift I offer to readers here: the first rose of the season bloomed in our garden today. This is a fragrant old rose we've had since the 1980s, when a sweet elderly neighbor in New Orleans, a Black gentleman named Mouton Bickham, shared a cutting with us. For years, not knowing that the rose is called Louis Philippe, we called it the Mouton Bickham rose. I love seeing it in this hand-painted vase that my favorite aunt cherished.

#birthday #roses #gifts
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Happy Birthday William 🎂🥳

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Thank you for your post.
Have a Happy Birthday in these trying times Enjoy peace where you can find it. I enjoy reading your posts.

Peace

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Happy Birthday, and thanks for the post

#NoPasaran

@wdlindsy “Non-cooperation is not a passive state; it is an intensively active state, more active than physical resistance or violence. Passive resistance is a misnomer.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

@wdlindsy This calls for cake!! 🎂

And hugs. 🫂

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Happy Birthday, William!

And thanks for the Snyder/Lithgow link. An important manifesto by an important thinker, read simply and honestly by a fine actor.

Even more thanks for posting the photograph of your "Mouton Bickham" / Louis Philippe rose. Please allow me to pay tribute to your friendly former neighbour, by hashtag.

#MoutonBickham #TimothySnyder #JohnLithgow #WilliamLindsey #resistance

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Happy Belated Birthday!