Songs Of Freedom + Love + Rebellion
A Project Lite-Brite Playlist
After several failed attempts to write a blog that summed up all the glad, mad, and sad I’m feeling, I decided to make a playlist instead.
Why? Because sometimes music and poetry cut through all the emotions and get to the heart of what matters. For me anyway.
This motley mix is part of Project Lite-Brite—a playlist of songs that speak to my body, mind, and soul. Songs that help me focus on good stuff and only fight “good” fights.
What song(s) would be on YOUR playlist?
No overthinking, just feeling. Play it loud. Play it proud.
Clint 🌈✌️
ON THIS DAY = FEBRUARY 18
BIRTHDAYS
1848 = Louis Comfort Tiffany = American stained glass artist
1849 = Armand Peugeot = French industrialist and Peugeot founder
1885 = Henri Laurens = French sculptor and illustrator
1890 = Adolphe Menjou = American actor
1890 = Edward Arnold = American actor
1898 = Enzo Ferrari = Italian racing driver and Ferrari founder
1914 = Pee Wee King = American singer-songwriter and fiddler
1919 = Jack Palance = American boxer and actor
1922 = Helen Gurley Brown = American journalist and author
1925 = George Kennedy = American actor
1931 = Toni Morrison = American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1933 = Yoko Ono = Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
1934 = Audre Lorde = American writer and civil rights activist 🌈
1947 = Dennis DeYoung = American singer-songwriter
1950 = Cybill Shepherd = American actor
1950 = John Hughes = American filmmaker
1952 = Juice Newton = American singer-songwriter
1954 = John Travolta = American actor, singer, and producer 🌈
1957 = Vanna White = American television personality
1960 = Greta Scacchi = Italian-Australian actor
1964 = Matt Dillon = American actor
1965 = Dr. Dre = American rapper, producer, and entrepreneur
1968 = Molly Ringwald = American actor
1974 = Jillian Michaels = American trainer and tv personality 🌈
1980 = Regina Spektor = Russian-American musician and songwriter
EVENTS
1840 = Henry David Thoreau writes about same-sex love in his journal: “All romance is grounded on friendship” is one of his many references to love and friendship between men. Thoreau never married and was childless. He strove to portray himself as an ascetic puritan. However, his sexuality has long been the subject of speculation, including by his contemporaries.
1885 = Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the US.
1911 = The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1930 = While studying photographs, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.”
Louis Comfort Tiffany
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I made a playlist once called "Restore Hope" that is filled with uplifting pop songs that have positive message. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/restore-hope/pl.u-GgA5eoZuZV5W9k