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Thank You Greg. Sharing. We all need this.

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Mar 20, 2022·edited Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

When none cares whether it prevails or not...

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I skipped over Patmore because of his name in all my years studying English literature, and now I wish I hadn't! And I almost skipped this today because I thought that portrait was of him! I am a life lesson about prejudice and ignorance, kids.

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you. Perfect for the day.

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There are things greater than our human selves, regardless of how many footnotes or mentions in history textbooks. TY 4 this reminder

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Mar 20, 2022·edited Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Is this April Fool's Day? Are you writing under the name Coventry Patmore?

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"snowy woods" "purple nail polish" "four houses at Hogwort's rival wizard school"

You're on a roll today, Greg. LOL

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My friends and I hope the atrocities in Ukraine will reunite these United States. It’s time for this nation to stand up to the bully. Thanks for helping

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Authoritarianism has been gaining ground until now because it has succeeded in dividing us against each other. While the assholes still abound, and the lying Republicans keep on lying, I've been getting this feeling lately of a powerful good that has emerged as we come together against an evil actor. Here's hoping that truth does prevail.

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Smite the rotten liars

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you Greg. Perfect piece! Love that the penultimate line ties in so nicely with the theme of your title.

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Thanks, Greg, I hope your optimism prevails.

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

We are taught from birth that good triumphs over evil. We see it in books, movies, plays, and other media. Sometimes, most times, we see it in real life too. We helped defeat Hitler. We killed Osama bin Laden. We defeated Donald Trump, and let's face it, defeating Putin is only a matter of time (for Ukraine, hopefully the shortest time possible). I share your optimism, although some days it's hard. In the end, good WILL triumph!

As for those pins: with the optimism of the first paragraph behind me, I'm still cynical enough about Republicans to think that those Ukrainian pins were gifts from Nancy Pelosi with the advice to wear them. They would have never done it on their own until they realized the self-interest involved. They don't even care about Americans, why would they care about Ukrainians?

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I am right along with you regarding your sentiments that we will prevail in coming out of this nightmare. It is human nature to have those wishes. I just can’t help but think of my parents and their escape plans from the Nazis. I also feel the R’s like lying snot-nosed McCarthy and I-can’t-believe-I-survived-a vicious-attack Scalise aren’t somehow beholden to Russia, either through the oligarchs or to Putin himself. It is something that weighs on my mind.

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Mar 20, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

And Chuck Bukowski said,

"I lie as truthfully as I can."

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Good for you! What you say here is all the more reason to consult our poets, old and more recent; and to go back into long-ago published and now neglected anthologies and look through the entries carefully for those now overlooked.

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