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18/11/2023

Kindness counts! 🧡

16/11/2023

Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia in 1856.

At age 16, he left his job as a salt miner in West Virginia and walked 500 miles to Hampton, Virginia, where he was able to convince the administrators of the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) to admit him as a student. Arriving with only fifty cents in his pocket, he worked as the school janitor to pay his way through school, ultimately graduating in 1875. Having distinguished himself as a student, Washington joined the faculty upon his graduation and, a few years later, left to help found Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Along with the school’s first students, he literally built what would become one of the country’s most important educational institutions. He dedicated his life to promoting the benefits of education and to improving educational opportunities for African Americans.

His autobiography Up From Slavery was a best-seller and he became one of the most famous and admired men in America.

Booker T. Washington died on November 14, 1915, one hundred eight years ago today.

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.”

“There is as much dignity in tilling a field as there is in writing a poem.”

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28/10/2023

27/10/2023

C.S. Lewis ❤️

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11/10/2023

I looked up the word ‘yellow’ the other day.

I found so many shades of yellow that they had been distinguished by words like
gold
honey
daffodil.

I found words like fire and sand and champagne and lemon and sunbeam and I even found a song.

Now imagine someone telling yellow that it’s ‘just yellow’.

When yellow is a sunbeam and a daffodil and fire.
When yellow is a song.

Without yellow, we couldn’t make orange and we couldn’t create green and our world would be far less colourful because of it.

Yellow’s true colours are not limited to one thing.
And neither are yours.

Some days you are dark and fiery and intense.

Some days you are rich and bright and vibrant.

Some days you are buttercups and dandelions and some days you are champagne and a song.

And without you, someone’s life would be far less bright and far less beautiful.

You are you as
yellow is yellow.

And the world needs you.

Because, no matter what you think, you are not ‘just you’.

You are so much more.

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Becky Hemsley 2023
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'True Colours' is from 'Letters from Life' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9MZC1?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_7MHZ6PG9GJY53219VD1T