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Sunday, July 21, 2024

May to Jean from Kristine and Mary - Tolstoy quote

These two are so fun together - Kristine's envelopes often have lots of patiently done dots/dashes/lines/shapes. Mary's has a corresponding amount of careful detailed filling in of the lines - and the details from the stamp. This is another idea that I'd be stealing -- if only I had some of those stamps....  


The add-on today is a Tolstoy quote that our friend Zivio posted on his IG.
Wherever it says *man* -- just switch it to *people* or *person*
Oh - what the heck - I'll just change it and put my edited words in all caps - so you know where it's changed.

“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every PERSON can be qualified in some particular way-said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a PERSON that THEY ARE more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of A PERSON that THEY ARE kind or wise, and of another that THEY ARE wicked or stupid. Yet we are always classifying PEOPLE in this way. And it is wrong. Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; here it is broad, there still, or clear, or cold, or muddy or warm. It is the same with PEOPLE. Every PERSON bears within THEMSELF the germs of every human quality, and now manifests one, now another, and frequently THEY ARE  quite unlike THEMSELF, while still remaining the same PERSON."


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