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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

Socrates

Tuesday Poem...A. Van Jordan - Such Sweet Thunder (Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, 1956) Duke Ellington was born on this day in 1899.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158405/such-sweet-thunder

"Hey Baby" (1956) Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn with Rosemary Clooney.

https://youtu.be/AsUo2vAwelk?si=AJO59pDF-pwmcsX8

DUKE ELLINGTON "Daydream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJyDQajAoxk

Duke Ellington, Lotus Blossom

https://youtu.be/g0oLYCdoDC8?si=81TbeSWafu8JOtvI

Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/28/reflections-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-vietnam-war/

Worst Of Babylon Bee

Kamala Harris Livestream Speech Will Charge $25 To Use Mute Button

https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harris-livestream-speech-will-charge-25-to-use-mute-button

Global Birth Rates Hit Historic Lows As Elon Musk Busy With DOGE

https://babylonbee.com/news/global-fertility-rates-hit-historic-lows-as-elon-musk-busy-with-doge

Canada Surpasses California As State With Most Liberal Governor

https://babylonbee.com/news/canada-surpasses-california-as-state-with-most-liberal-governor

9 Changes New Prime Minister Will Bring To Canada

https://babylonbee.com/news/9-improvements-new-prime-minister-will-bring-to-canada

Europe Promises To Get The Electricity Back Up ASAP So Everyone Can Hear The Muslim Calls To Prayer

https://babylonbee.com/news/europe-promises-to-get-the-electricity-back-up-asap-so-everyone-can-hear-the-muslim-calls-to-prayer-over-the-loudspeakers

C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (April 29th)

"The Lord taketh pleasure in His people." — Psalm 149:4

How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of His people's interests which He does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to Him. Not merely does He think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in His way." It were a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be wrought to us in that part of our business which did not come under our gracious Lord's inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your meaner affairs. The breadth of His tender love is such that you may resort to Him in all matters; for in all your afflictions He is afflicted, and like as a father pitieth his children, so doth He pity you. The meanest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is His, that doth not merely comprehend the persons of His people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons! Dost thou think, O Christian, that thou canst measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought thee—justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of His goodness are unsearchable; thou shalt never be able to tell them out or even conceive them. Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord.