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Judson Clark, 311 Meadowbrook Mall Road, Los Angeles, CA (2025)

09/17/2025

May you never be the reason why someone who loved to sing, doesn't anymore. Or why someone who dressed so uniquely, now wears plain clothing. Or why someone who always spoke so excitedly about their dreams, is now silent about them.
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You can be anything you want to be in this world…….I hope the first thing you chose to be is kind

09/17/2025

Random Fact of the Day: Twice every day, a rapt audience gathers at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee to see six local celebrities: the Peabody Ducks and the head duckmaster.

The sixth is the hotel’s head Duckmaster, Kenon Walker, who leads them in “the Duck March.” Each morning, Kenon goes to the roof, into the “Duck Palace” to retrieve the talent. He leads the ducks to the elevator, signals to the lobby to start the John Philip Sousa music. And when the doors open, the ducks march down a red carpet, up some steps and into the hotel’s ornate fountain.

The ducks swim about the fountain until the afternoon, when the Duckmaster marches them back to their palace on the roof. People travel from all over to see this surreal local tradition.

The Peabody Ducks go back to 1933, to an incident involving the manager of the hotel and live duck decoys for a duck hunt. Guests were charmed to find ducks swimming in the hotel fountain the next morning, and it became a tradition to have ducks live in the fountain. But the bellman had to take care of them. So in 1940 a man named Edward Pembroke was hired as a bellman. Pembroke had been an animal trainer in the circus as a young man. So it was he who came up with the idea of turning the tradition of ducks living in the fountain into a ceremony. As the first-ever Duckmaster, Edward Pembroke trained the birds to do their daily entrance and exit marches. And he did that job for fifty-one years, retiring in 1991.

Each duck serves a 3-month term. Two weeks before their tenure ends, a local farm the Peabody has worked with since 1981 delivers six new rookies to train how to march, use an elevator, andswim in a fountain. Six, so there is a backup duck, because chances are that one of the ducks won’t take to the whole march-in-front-of-lots-of-people thing. But while the faces may change, you can be sure that every day, ducks will march proudly in and out of the lobby of the Peabody Hotel.

Credit to the respective owner

09/17/2025

"The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the ones that have experienced so much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist – they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world."❤️
~ Bianca Sparacino
Love and Light,

09/17/2025

ALAIN DELON~
Alain Delon, when he was young, would dress in an army jacket - the best to warm all the puppies, which he met on his way.
Today, the 86-year-old French actor has 5 shelters for dogs and cats where these little animals collected from the street live.
"In my house, there are always many dogs 🐶🏡, dogs remind me of children"
Delon has lived in Switzerland for a long time🇨🇭, and he takes care of dogs and cats.
One day, learning that some sadists in the Pyrenes had doused and set a dog on fire with gasoline, he sent his vet there and even got the sadists prosecuted.
For the first time, a judge has ordered in judicial practice, that the victim - a dog named Mambo be present in the courtroom.
Alain Delon even tries to get the dogs their own lawyers.
By the way, the sadists who did it got pretty long terms.
Alain Delon's love for animals is from childhood.
He says that his first pet was a female Doberman named Gala.
“Once I yelled at her and even hit her tail.
She sat up and looked at me.
I saw that she was crying. 😪
Since then I understood everythng, and now my dogs are always smiling”
Do you think my dogs know I'm Alain Delon?
Do not care!
My dogs love me, no matter who I am or what I do.
It is unconditional love, love without thinking, complete and true love!
Alain Delon is a member of the Society for the Protection of Animals.
He is the collaborator of Brigitte Bardot.
8 dogs now live in his house. 🐕🏡
There is a cemetery of his old dogs: there have been 45.
In the center is a chapel that he built.
After numerous requests, he received official permission to be buried there when that day came.
He affirms that for the East it is the ultimate luxury.
But Alain Delon deals not only with dead animals. Tortured Animals worry him a lot and he is willing to resort to all means to protect them.
Once Alain Delon sent the helicopter to rescue a cat 😿, whose leg was torn off by someone, tying it to a car.
The three-legged cat now lives in his mansion just like a three-legged rab

09/17/2025

I don't brag on my kids but when they do something outstanding I gotta share. My neighbors son has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. He asked several girls to go and they said no because he was in a wheel chair. He asked Catana and she said yes and she was excited to go. She really has a big heart. She said, 'it was no question to go he's so cool.'

Credit: Arlene Brooks

09/17/2025

These boys were on their way home from a game and noticed smoke coming out of a house. Nobody responded when they knocked and rang the doorbell, so they broke in and found the owner, an elderly man, who was asleep and got him safely out of his house. Within minutes he would have died from the smoke.

09/17/2025

"MY SON SHAMED ME FOR TAKING A SOLO TRIP AT 77 – SHOULD I CANCEL MY ADVENTURE TO PLEASE HIM, OR LIVE FOR MYSELF?"
I’m 77 and decided to take a solo trip to a destination I’ve always dreamed of visiting. Traveling brings me a sense of freedom and adventure I haven't felt in years. But when my son found out about my plans, he reacted harshly.
SON: “Mom, you’re too old to be traveling alone. It’s dangerous and irresponsible. Instead of spending your money on this trip, you should use it to help with your granddaughter’s college tuition.”
His words hit hard, making me second-guess my decision........

Credit - original owner ( respect 🫡)

09/17/2025

In the 1970s, transistor radios were all the rage. These compact and portable devices revolutionized the way people enjoyed music and news. Later on in the late '70s, they were followed by the Walkman and then the boombox in the '80s. The early transistor radios were sleek and stylish and came in vibrant colors like orange, yellow, and lime green.
These portable, pocket-sized devices made bringing your music on-the-go a new reality in the '70s. People could tune in to their favorite AM or FM radio stations and listen to music, sports, and talk shows wherever they went. Whether at the beach, the park, or on a road trip, the transistor radio was a trusty companion. They were powered by batteries and had a built-in speaker or earphone jack for personal listening. These iconic gadgets were the epitome of '70s cool and defined the '70s listening experience.
Credit goes to original owner

09/17/2025

Here is a great story that Danny Kaye's only child, Dena, wrote about her father... Her Heart Belongs to Daddy: A Daughter Reminisces By Dena Kaye
I was six years old the first time I saw my father perform live in a theater. I can still see myself sitting in the third row of the orchestra. From the stage, my father called out to me, "Are you having a good time, sweetheart?" I emitted a faint and hesitant "yes." A little while he asked me again, and then again. Each time my "yes" got more and more tremulous. After the show, I ran into his dressing room, threw myself into his arms and said, between sobs and gulps, "I don't want anybody laughing at my daddy." How could I have known at such a tender age that laughter was the gift he gave to the world? It wasn't until years later that I would find myself doubled over, my ribs aching with glee, my spirit light as air.
I loved what Walter Winchell once wrote about my father in a movie review; "Ushers might be knocked to the ground by people rolling in the aisles." Making people laugh, though, was only part of his repertoire. In his own profession, a word he used with great pride, he was an actor who danced (just think, he performed Fred Astaire's role in 'White Christmas'), a dancer who sang and a mimic who brought tears to your eyes. He had style and grace. He was elegant even when he was zany. His gymnastic face expressed every emotion. The great pianist, Artur Rubenstein noted, "As with Chaplin, I am not so much amused as I am moved."
Unlike anyone else I can think of, my father had a breathtaking assortment of talents. His roles ranged from a concentration-camp survivor in 'Skokie' to the title character in 'Hans Christian Anderson'. He enunciated to perfection the furiously fast and complex lyrics written by my mother, Sylvia Fine, and invented a gibberish of onomatopoeia - interspersed with the odd real word - whose meaning was somehow absolutely clear. "Danny accepted no boundaries," Harry Belafonte, a fellow UNICEF ambassador, once said. "That's the highe

09/17/2025

Clint Eastwood, 94-year-old vegan actor legend, formulated one of the most important lessons of his life so far for the young generation:
"Don't look for luxury in watches or bracelets, don't look for luxury in villas or sailboats!
Luxury is laughter and friends, luxury is rain on your face, luxury is hugs and kisses.
Don't look for luxury in shops, don't look for it in gifts, don't look for it in parties, don't look for it in events!
Luxury is being loved by people, luxury is being respected, luxury is having your parents alive, luxury is being able to play with your grandchildren. Luxury is what money can't buy."
(2024)

09/17/2025

Yi Jiefang, a 67-year-old woman from Shanghai, has devoted the past 12 years of her life to planting over 2 million trees in the deserts of northwest China's Inner Mongolia. Her journey began in 2004, after the heartbreaking loss of her only son, Yang Ruizhe, who had expressed a deep desire to contribute to desert afforestation.

In his memory, Yi sold her property and founded the non-profit organization "Green Life" to fund her tree-planting mission. Through her incredible dedication, she has turned loss into life, transforming barren deserts into green landscapes. 🌲🌳

09/17/2025

1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow.
Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns.
Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.

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