Nancy Vieira Couto

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Poet. Blogger. Amateur genealogist. Virtual walker. I never meant to sail so goddam far. I was just doing my job. https://nancyvieiracouto.com

You're allowed to post on your blog once every decade, and you don't even need to apologize for it. That's also part of having your own space.

Personal sites aren't a competition, and productivity doesn't have to be a metric.

(note to self)

Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope https://t.co/80fH6KlRuD
The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope

“Hope is a diagnostic human trait, and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe.”

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The witch of Halloweens past is out there looking for a glass of wine. She likes Côtes du Rhône.
Come listen to poems in two languages next Wednesday on Zoom. (I will be reading in English.) Here's the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84041620446
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Adding ancestors to #WikiTree & adopting orphan profiles so those people have fuller bios. Connect-A-Thon is coming in April, a challenge to add more people to the collaborative #Genealogy tree. #FamilyHistory https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2023/03/adopting-orphan-wikitree-profiles.html
Adopting Orphan WikiTree Profiles

Genealogy research and commentary by Marian Burk Wood, speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past," available from Amazon.com.

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

A wonderful letter from Kerouac to his first wife turned lifelong friend https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/jack-kerouac-golden-eternity/

Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

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“A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” (attributed to Maya Angelou but some debate whether she really said this)

My crow couple come every morning to greet me (and caw for peanuts if none are there )
My 📸
#photography #crow #corvids #nature #birds #quote #mayaangelou

We Are the American Heartbreak – Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1902, on race in a rare recording https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/23/american-heartbreak-langston-hughes-reads/ #BlackHistoryMonth
We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording

Reflection on “the rock on which Freedom stumped its toe.”

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7 Things You Didn’t Know about Hakeem Jeffries’ Roots

America’s highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, recently made his presence known with his inaugural address in this role, a poetic A to Z inventory of values that…

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