His message of love — hopeful, expansive, humane — inspired genuine moral progress. It fostered hope that humanity might ultimately converge toward those ideals. In too many parts of the world, that expectation collided with societies that did not share those assumptions.
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Lisa Ellen Niver
Jan News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Thank you for all of your support! I am a two-time finalist for the 14th annual 2021 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) Awards! I will keep you posted when the WINNERs are announced!
Please see this link — https://lisaniver.com/awards/ –– over the last six years I have won five times and been a finalist nineteen times for a variety of broadcast, print and digital categories! Want to read more of my writing? Click here for all of my stories in 2021.
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From Nov 17, 2021 to Jan 24, 2022 (10 weeks), I had over 400,000 new views! I am going for 1 million. I appreciate all of your support.
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Lisa’s TOP TEN Short Form Videos In Jan 2022 After 8 Weeks On TikTok
Where Can You PARTY with PIXELS?
New On Tiktok For The Holidays: My Top 10 Most Viewed–Over 50 & Playing With AR Filters!
Thank you to Princess Cruises for including me in the December 2021 Captain’s Circle magazine!
Thank you to Julie, Alessio, Marco and Eva for our adventures with the Gibbons:
Thank you to the Fortezze’s for our hikes:
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“It’s not the amount of time you devote, but what you devote to the time that counts.”
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