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William Lindsey :toad:

Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….


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Thinking about... · Twenty Lessons, read by John LithgowBy Timothy Snyder
William Lindsey :toad:

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.


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An old rose in a hand-painted vase
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Francisca Sinn

@wdlindsy Happy Birthday! Wishing you a lovely day and a joyful year ahead enjoyed in good health and good company. 🎉🎈✌🏻

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Alexander Karn

@fsinn @wdlindsy

Happy birthday. Appreciate all you contribute here, William.

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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’

@wdlindsy That’s a beautiful rose! I hope it has great fragrance too.

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