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It was rough going in the potato famine; folk died from eating the stems of potatoes as they are related to nightshade. I am glad you both are managing. I know it has been a tough time. Re, your house, folk are lucky here the old cottages were all built of stone.
the thatched roofs are occasionally still maintained. I once remember a chap he cycled to a near village to inspect a cottage. He returned and said he thought the thatch might soon need attention. 'How much was it? ' I asked. £150 was the reply. I expect the plot of land would be priced at 150 thousand today. Take care. 🌺
posted by
C_C_T
on April 26, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Sorry for the typos. My eyes 😎
posted by
anib
on April 26, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Sorry for the typos. My eyes 😎
posted by
anib
on April 26, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Dear Sea Sis,
I enjoyed your write. May your hubby recover to his fullest and you too take care of your bank.I myself realize it now. All the very best I’m sending to you both in prayer,Audrey Hepburn has been an all- time fave of mine 🙁🥵😜
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posted by
anib
on April 26, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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It’s Aubrey Hepburn who comes to my mind as a common or
Sarvodaya means an enlightened ascension for all mankind. Utopia, the vision of an ideal state, whether fanciful, imaginative or even logical, has allured the human mind since time immemorial. Since Plato’s The Republic, the first systematic speculation of the utopian kind, there has been a rich crop of utopian literature, tending in two directions, of escape and of reconstruction. And the utopian order conceived has been rich equally in temper and substance.
Like Sir Thomas More, the first great utopian thinker of the modern world, Shelley and Gandhi have also been haunted by the idea of the progress and perfectibility of mankind. And the vision of the one was characterized by no less earnestness than that of the other. Their views of the ideal state, again, are scattered over their writings and not concentrated in single compositions.
The ideal commonwealths, as envisaged by Shelley and Gandhi, reveal as much of affinity as of contrast. They equally denounced the evils of existing society, with its prejudice and superstition, wealth and poverty, self-seeking and expediency, oppression and war, inequality and injustice. But Shelley’s denial of God was totally alien to Gandhi’s line of thinking. Gandhi, however, wholly concurred with Shelley’s conviction that for a society, perfection could be attained not through revolution but by a “plan of amendment and regeneration in the moral and political state of society, “without the rapidity and danger of revolution” on the one hand, and “devoid of the time-servingness of temporising reform” on the other. Gandhi, again, agreed with Shelley that love or sympathetic imagination was the instrument of social progress and that reason was but “an assemblage of our better feelings”.
Shelley proclaimed that “perfection, however unattainable it may now appear to us, is the ultimate goal towards which society must move,” and that a poet’s high mission was to be “the unacknowledged legislator of the world” who seeks to elevate mankind by holding before them “beautiful idealisms of moral excellence.” Shelley went over to Ireland ostensibly to lend support to the struggle for religious and political freedom, but he was prompted by a deeper urge to “sink the question of immediate grievance in the more general and remote consideration of a highly perfectible state of society”. Gandhi, too, averred that the picture of a Sarvodaya state may appear utopian, but it has its value. “Let India live for this true picture, though never realizable in its completeness”. Shelley and Gandhi both sought to evolve an ideal state on this very earth, the imperfect world of ours was to be transmuted into an earthly paradise
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anib
on April 26, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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It’s Aubrey Hepburn who comes to my mind as a common or
Sarvodaya means an enlightened ascension for all mankind. Utopia, the vision of an ideal state, whether fanciful, imaginative or even logical, has allured the human mind since time immemorial. Since Plato’s The Republic, the first systematic speculation of the utopian kind, there has been a rich crop of utopian literature, tending in two directions, of escape and of reconstruction. And the utopian order conceived has been rich equally in temper and substance.
Like Sir Thomas More, the first great utopian thinker of the modern world, Shelley and Gandhi have also been haunted by the idea of the progress and perfectibility of mankind. And the vision of the one was characterized by no less earnestness than that of the other. Their views of the ideal state, again, are scattered over their writings and not concentrated in single compositions.
The ideal commonwealths, as envisaged by Shelley and Gandhi, reveal as much of affinity as of contrast. They equally denounced the evils of existing society, with its prejudice and superstition, wealth and poverty, self-seeking and expediency, oppression and war, inequality and injustice. But Shelley’s denial of God was totally alien to Gandhi’s line of thinking. Gandhi, however, wholly concurred with Shelley’s conviction that for a society, perfection could be attained not through revolution but by a “plan of amendment and regeneration in the moral and political state of society, “without the rapidity and danger of revolution” on the one hand, and “devoid of the time-servingness of temporising reform” on the other. Gandhi, again, agreed with Shelley that love or sympathetic imagination was the instrument of social progress and that reason was but “an assemblage of our better feelings”.
Shelley proclaimed that “perfection, however unattainable it may now appear to us, is the ultimate goal towards which society must move,” and that a poet’s high mission was to be “the unacknowledged legislator of the world” who seeks to elevate mankind by holding before them “beautiful idealisms of moral excellence.” Shelley went over to Ireland ostensibly to lend support to the struggle for religious and political freedom, but he was prompted by a deeper urge to “sink the question of immediate grievance in the more general and remote consideration of a highly perfectible state of society”. Gandhi, too, averred that the picture of a Sarvodaya state may appear utopian, but it has its value. “Let India live for this true picture, though never realizable in its completeness”. Shelley and Gandhi both sought to evolve an ideal state on this very earth, the imperfect world of ours was to be transmuted into an earthly paradise
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anib
on April 26, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Sea Gypsy.....
I really love it when you have time to write.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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I always enjoy British shows.
posted by
Kabu
on April 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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I enjoy watching British shows, but after learning that I am 76% British through the ancestry site, I now enjoy them even more so. Bridgerton is one of my favorites. I also enjoy The Crown, Jamie Oliver, and Mary Berry's cooking show. I imagine it would be stressful to live the life of a Royal. They can't make new episodes fast enough. I'm sorry that your house is emptying your wallet. Ours tends to do the same once in a while. I am wishing you and your hubby a clean bill of health. Sending you hugs and prayers. 🙏🤗🙏
posted by
Sherri_G
on April 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Wishing you both good health... .. I agree with sam444 dealing with positive attitude does help.
Reading about the royals reminded me of Roman Holiday... a princess ( My favorite Audrey Hepburn) manages to escape from the castle and the way she spends her time in Rome as a commoner with Gregory Peck
posted by
shamasehar
on April 24, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Good Morning
Sea Gypsy, I'm glad the front of your house is done. I think having work done around the house is usually expensive. Our contractor is coming tomorrow to measure our kitchen windows and the one-bedroom window. We need new windows, and I'm very excited to have the windows installed. It will be expensive, but I have my heart set on new windows in the back of the house. This contractor did such a nice job on the windows in the sunroom. I hope you and your husband have a good weekend. I'm always happy to hear good reports from the doctor. I'm sorry your back gives you trouble. I would love to be a member of the crown if I could help people. I'm not sure I could handle all the rules, but I would try.
posted by
Goldiec
on April 24, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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I would never want to be a royal - always under public scrutiny, every little thing you do being judged and discussed. Gimme a porch chair and a ball of yarn so I can be the observer, thank you very much.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 24, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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There is a power to positivity. I wonder what I would do if I had been born into a royal family.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 24, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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Re: sam444
Absolutely, if I could do good and were a Royal, then I would definitely do so. During the Potato Famine the girl to which I referred had no way to change her family's thinking, nor that of her government. So much is dependent upon circumstance. My health is fine, just a bit of an annoyance at times. I'm so glad your daughter is doing better.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on April 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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If I were a Royal and had the opportunity to do good things for people, I'd stay. However, if circumstances were vested in power, I'm gone as well. I'm so sorry for your health woes but your outlook is marvelous. A positive attitude and doing what we can goes a long in keeping our mental health strong.
posted by
sam444
on April 23, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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