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Message received, maybe
Message received, maybe
It seemed (seemed ) that my mom — almost ninety-three, with profound dementia — understood what I was saying.
it seemed (emphasis seemed ) that my mom — almost ninety-three, with profound dementia — understood what I was saying.
#life
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Message received, maybe
End of a garbage era
End of a garbage era
Our garbage service has, finally, abandoned its dot-matrix printer and tractor-feed perforated forms for a laser printer and shiny multi-color forms.
#life#technology
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End of a garbage era
Hands and AI
Hands and AI
When I see ordinary human hands on a screen, they’ve begun to look like the work of AI.
#life#technology
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Hands and AI
Interstate freakout
Interstate freakout
Uncapping and recapping the Prius gas tank can create the problem, and uncapping and recapping the gas tank can make the problem go away.
uncapping and recapping the Prius gas tank can create the problem, and that uncapping and recapping the gas tank can make the problem go away.
#life#lifehacks#travel
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Interstate freakout
YAS (Yet Another Scam)
YAS (Yet Another Scam)
Your group order has been picked up from Chili's Grill & Bar and your Dasher is on the way! :-)
Your group order has been picked up from Chili's Grill & Bar and your Dasher is on the way! :-)
#life
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YAS (Yet Another Scam)
Scam alert
Scam alert
A fruitful time for scammers, who hope to catch their victims off guard as packages fly or creep through the mails at year’s end.
the year’s end is a fruitful time for scammers, who hope to catch their victims off guard as packages fly or creep through the mails.
#life
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Scam alert
Talking about contingency
Talking about contingency
From A Man on the Inside: “Every great thing in your life, when you look back on it, feels like a miracle.”
#life#television
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Talking about contingency
“Turning Off the News”
“Turning Off the News”
From The Borowitz Report, “Turning Off the News”: I’m not a neuroscientist like George Santos, but in my experience, turning off the news is good for your mental health. And you’ll have more time for things you actually enjoy. Read a novel. See a friend. Walk your dog. Which is what I’m going to do right now.
#life#news
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“Turning Off the News”
“Unflavored dulness”
“Unflavored dulness”
“It is wonderful, the romance and tragedy and adventure which one may find in a quiet old- fashioned country town, though to heartily enjoy the every-day life one must care to study life and character, and must find pleasure in thought and observation of simple things, and have an instinctive, delicious interest in what to other eyes”: Sarah Orne Jewett. is unflavored dulness.
#fiction#life
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“Unflavored dulness”
Figuring out how to be yourself
Figuring out how to be yourself
Nick Lowe, interviewed on the PBS News Hour last night: “Johnny Cash once said to me, incredibly disappointingly, I thought at the time, ‘Nick, what you have got to do is figure out how to be yourself.’
#advice#life
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Figuring out how to be yourself
Doones
Doones
The Nabisco man hands us Lorna Doones.
#food#life
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Doones
“It’s pathological”
“It’s pathological”
Eddie Glaude on Donald Trump’s suggestion that people with disabilities should just die.
#death#life
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“It’s pathological”
Recently updated
Recently updated
What really happened with the banana man, which is even more ridiculous.
#life#shopping
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Recently updated
The banana man
The banana man
Sure, you can go ahead of us to buy one banana. But no good deed goes unpunished.
#life#shopping
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The banana man
“How's Your Mom?”
“How's Your Mom?”
From a This American Life episode that aired in February: Janelle Taylor addresses the question “How’s Your Mom?” Likely to be helpful to anyone close to a person with dementia.
#life
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“How's Your Mom?”
Wild strawberries
Wild strawberries
I think I have finally figured out what interests the deer who visit the back of our backyard: Fragaria vesca, or wild strawberries. They’re why the deer appear so choosy as they browse the ground.
#food#life#nature
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Wild strawberries
First!
First!
In Cicadaville.
#life
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First!
“Oh God! How beautiful!”
“Oh God! How beautiful!”
In the aftermath of my cataract surgery, my friend Stefan Hagemann pointed me to Annie Dillard’s essay “Seeing” (1974). In it Dillard recounts several case histories from Marius von Senden’s Space and Sight: The Perception of Space and Shape in the Congenitally Blind Before and After Operation (1960), a study of people who were able to see for the first time after the removal of congenital cataracts.
#life
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“Oh God! How beautiful!”
Look, reader, no glasses
Look, reader, no glasses
I put a new photograph of my unglassed and several-years-older face in the sidebar. RSS readers, you’ll just have to click through.
#life
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Look, reader, no glasses
Cataract and cataracts
Cataract and cataracts
Walking on a sunny morning a couple of weeks ago, with both eyes cataract-free, I began to tear up because everything looked so brilliantly beautiful: the sky, some trees, the pavement. Yes, the pavement.
#life
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Cataract and cataracts