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09/16/2026 · Daytona Beach

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The Tiny Pause That Gives You Your Day Back

You do not need a perfect boundary script—you need three seconds before an automatic yes. Try this small pause today and notice how much more honest your answers become.

09/16/2026
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Poem of the Day

Three Dials, One Life: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

Shakespeare turns aging into three small, blazing pictures: a bare tree, a fading day, and a fire collapsing into ash. Read closely, and you’ll see why this sonnet feels less like a lecture about mortality than a hand finding yours in the dark.

09/16/2026

Quote of the Day

The Intelligence of Not Choosing Too Soon

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous sentence is usually treated as a badge of sophistication. Read in context, it is stranger and more useful: a warning that reality may demand contradiction without granting us the comfort of a tidy answer.

09/16/2026

The National Ear

The Bill, the Border, and the Price of Dinner

Washington keeps selling speed while Congress argues over the bill’s fine print. Meanwhile, families, courts, and the Federal Reserve keep forcing the country to confront the same question: who pays for the promises?

09/16/2026

The Curator

The Immersive Van Gogh Machine Needs to Sit Down

Projecting paintings onto warehouse walls is not automatically an art experience. Sometimes it’s a dazzling doorway into an artist’s work; sometimes it’s a screensaver wearing a beret.

09/16/2026

The Weekend Escape

Wallace, Idaho: The Little Mining Town Under the Interstate

Take I-90 into northern Idaho and stop before the drive turns into a blur of pine trees and gas stations. Wallace has a walkable old downtown, good coffee, and one wonderfully strange surprise: the interstate runs underneath it.

09/16/2026

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Neighborhood Meeting - Beach Haven Resort Motel

Neighborhood Meeting - Beach Haven Resort Motel • St. Pete Beach, FL Informational Neighborhood Meeting: Conditional Use Application for Renovations and Expansion Beach Haven Resort Motel Wednesday October 14th, 2026 4890 Guld Boulevard 5:30PM

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Spooky Sights Await at the Haunted Arboretum

Spooky Sights Await at the Haunted Arboretum • Deerfield Beach The City of Deerfield Beach Parks and Recreation Department will host the Haunted Arboretum on Friday, Oct. 23, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Constitution Park and Arboretum, 2841 W. Hillsboro Blvd. The evening event invites residents and visitors to explore an eerie landscape filled with fog, roaming graveyard creatures, and unexpected scares throughout the park grounds. Capacity is limited, and advance purchase is required. Early admission tickets are $5 each and will increase to $10 on Oct. 23 until 12 p.m. No tickets will be sold at the gate. Attendees are strongly encouraged to secure passes early before the event sells out. For registration and more information, visit www.dfb.city/registration or call 954-250-4162.

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Your library card allows access to thousands of digital titles, including eBooks, Audiobooks, Movies, Magazines and more! All Okaloosa County cardholders have access to the Florida Panhandle Libraries digital collection of over 25,000 titles. Enjoy eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines from your computer or mobile device. To get started from a computer: Visit the Florida Panhandle Libraries Overdrive® website Click the "Sign in" button Choose Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative as your library Enter your library card number and the PIN associated with your library account Access the collection from your mobile device using the Libby® app, powered by Overdrive®. Click HERE Version Options eLibraryHeadline for more information.

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