Songs Of Freedom + Love + Rebellion

A Project Lite-Brite Playlist

‘NOT MY PRESIDENTS DAY’ PROTESTS

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

• Black History Month

• LGBT History Month (UK)

• National Battery Day

• National Drink Wine Day

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

NEW + FEATURED

• Try A Little Tenderness #1 (NSFW)

• Window Shopping #1 (NSFW)

• Buns + Cakes #1 (NSFW)

• Meditations On Men #4 (NSFW)

• Substack = NSFW + Pioneers + Pride + SFW

• YouTube = Playlists + Streams + Videos

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