The road not taken . . .

Freya’s morning mailbox was filled with reminders . . .

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

Eighty years ago yesterday, thousands of brave Americans joined forces with other allied forces to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. This November, all we have to do is vote. – Joyce Vance.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people when he gave his twenty-ninth Fireside Chat on June 5, 1944. The day before, on June 4, Rome had fallen to Allied troops. – Heather Cox Richardson

The poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born on this day in 1917 Topeka, Kansas. The first black woman to be honored with a Pulitzer Prize, she grew up and spent nearly all her life in the Southside of Chicago which became much of the source of her poetry.

Tell every artist you know: Digital creators are ditching Instagram for good reason. Meta now views public posts as part of its AI training data, and you can’t opt out. One alternative? Cara. It's just like Insta, but it bans AI posts and training. Try it on iOS or Android. – Kim Komando

The path you did not take ran with you for a while.

… You were in the end,

never just looking on,

but always the river moving between

and the song of the water,

holding the flowing of ways together. – David Whyte