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#TGIF Happy Juneteenth! "Unfortunately, the currently adopted Texas school books say that slave owners voluntarily emancipated their slaves once they learned about the Proclamation. Well, no. First of all they already knew about it, and they voluntarily did it because there were guns pointed at them." "The soldiers didn't come here to inform. They came to enforce." "You know, when you think about the population of Galveston was supposedly around 10,000 people, and you've got 6,000 soldiers there, you know, it's like almost everybody had their own soldier to tell them, "Okay, let them go."" "And then 4000 of those soldiers would have been black. And many of the African American polulation in Galveston may have never seen a black soldier. Now you see THOUSANDS of them." @rasoolberry #JUNETEENTH2026 #JUNETEENTH: Faith & Freedom | A Documentary youtube.com/watch?v=YmjuDx…

Flags are an icon of an idea, much like a logo. In observation of Juneteenth, we share its most recognizable symbol. Did you know there is a Juneteenth flag? It expresses a very BIG idea! Here's a one- page explanation of the graphic design, with a hat tip to Romelle Slaughter for supplying it! #Juneteenth2026 And here's Ben Haith, the designer, telling us about the making of this flag! tinyurl.com/mt4cjbh7 Celebrating Juneteenth 2026!!! See less

Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen. You must expect it, and believe that it is possible before it IS possible. There is absolutely NOTHING about this little worm that tells you what it WILL be. You will not always be HERE, so don't judge yourself by where you are today. You are a continuum. You are your action. Measure yourself by your willingness and effort to become. Effort shows. Plans do not. You are not there. YET. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." ~Michael Jordan

Amen!

Gapingvoid Culture Design Group @gapingvoid

3 days ago

@etcgraphics Go beyond best practices and build better practices!

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It's the Birthday of M.C. Escher June 17, 1898 - March 27, 1972 "It is in the nature of people to want to exchange ideas with each other. And I believe that, basically, every artist wants nothing more than to tell his fellow people what he has in mind. With all expressions of art, whether it is music, literature, or visual arts, it is first and foremost a matter of : communicating to the outside world and make sensory perceptible a personal thought, a striking idea, or an inner emotion."

"Read this book!" "Come to this webinar and it will transform your business!" We've all looked and at least hoped for some quick fix to instantly transform our business--like overnight. But never forget! Things worth having take work. So guess what? It's you. YOU are the magic!

Happy Birthday Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971 Turns out, creativity is mostly just listening to your own heart. Stravinsky was one of the most important, influential, and revolutionary composers of the 20th century. His work is so individual that every note of every work could have been written by no other. He was obsessed with innovation and invention. His compositions were a refined alchemy, bridging between the past and the future, from folk to the avant-garde, from tradition to iconoclast, from classical to jazz. He borrowed from Mozart and Bach, geometrically juxtaposing and cantilevering melodies and key structures and rhythms one on top of the other. One reviewer describes his method as “highly organized chaos”.

I do not know. YET.

Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar

5 days ago

I consistently see people rise in life who not the smartest, sometimes not even the most delivery, but they are learning machines. —Charlie Munger, built a $1T conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway

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This is because we behave according to what we believe about ourselves. That's why 'being' is more important than 'doing'. Think about it. If failing makes you a failure, you will not try. If failing makes you a learner, you will try again. Life changing indeed.

Reads with Ravi @readswithravi

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A best practice is the thing nobody can get blamed for choosing. But safe is sometimes dangerous. The best thing you can do for your small business, is to think completely different from 'how we have always done things'. @gapingvoid mailchi.mp/gapingvoid/bew…

Yea, I know, YESTERDAY was flag day. But our post did not post. So we'll post it today. Even if your company doesn't have a physical flag, identity design follows the same kinds of thinking. A FLAG is representative of the whole story- like your logo. So this is the Ultimate Identity Design: the Flag.We are glad for the stars and stripes and all that for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. While we are not a perfect nation, I am thankful to God for the opportunities and the privileges we enjoy. We might get weary of bipartisan bickering, but keep in mind, in other lands, you cannot bicker at all!!! The only land your bickering gets you, is to land you in jail--or WORSE. So thank God it's not illegal to disagree, to share your thoughts about the 'common good', or present another perspective. Our Founders believed in Freedom, and that we need to decide what that is together. ALL of us is better than SOME of us, and it takes us all to decide the common good for everyone, (not just what is good for me). Hallelujah for 'e pluribus unum'. (Out of many, One.) May her colors ever wave over the purple mountain majesty and the amber waves of grain.

It's the Birthday of Maurice Sendak June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012 –– that unforgettable illustrator and author of children's books. He wanted to help children deal with scary things. He is still relevant to us today, because WE ADULTS are still dealing with scary things. Being an entrepreneur is SCARY. But––creating anything of value involves RISK. Entrepreneurs must be very, very BRAVE. Successful entrepreneurs take risks where other people do not. Maurice loved Herman Melville. Here's what Maurice said on the risk of CREATING: "Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive & either you hit your head on a rock & you split your skull & you die. . . OR that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back & do the best work that you ever did. But you have to take the dive, and you do not know what the results will be."

The future belongs to the consistent.

Which orange circle is larger? Seems a simple answer. Both circles are the same size. It’s an optical illusion. Good design works without saying a word. It supports your words. And it supports your business. If you need to accentuate some bit of important information on your website or brochure, you need a graphic designer to help you draw attention to the right things. Graphic Design. It’s part art. And part science.

Customer service is all you’ve got. If they can get the same bad service anywhere at a lesser cost, what’s to stop them?

How observant do you think you are? The powers of observation must be keen in an Entrepreneur. I read this description of a simple square, written by the masterful John McWade. Somehow I feel like I have never really SEEN one before.

Entrepreneurs, if you could send a note to yourself in the past, what is the one piece of advice you would give yourself to make your entrepreneurial journey a little smoother? What's something you wish you knew earlier about running a small business? "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter. . . . " youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZRAU…

For a long time, we measured the things the coach told us to measure, thinking he knew better than we did. Come to find out, those standard KPI's didn't matter a hoot to our business. A small business entrepreneur has way too much to do to measure things that do not matter. inc.com/diana-bocco/fo…