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Staying in one place
Staying in one place
A (pre-pandemic) observation from Philip Reed, a professional model maker: “I do not see that just having to stay in one place is a restriction on life. It’s more having to stay in one place in your head that’s a restriction on life.”
#attention#life#work
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Staying in one place
Millimetres
Millimetres
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
#Pessoa
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Millimetres
Opportunities
Opportunities
I think it’s reasonable to wonder: did high school, where George Floyd excelled in both basketball and football, prepare him well for college? Did community college prepare him well for a four-year school? Did that four-year school (where, it appears, he was not an athlete) offer him — a first-generation student, raised in poverty — the support he might have needed to succeed?
#college#education
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Opportunities
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs (and his demonstrative adjective) claim reality for what’s non-existent. The present king of France is bald.
#grammar#politics#truth
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Jared’s verbs
“Manufacturing crime”
“Manufacturing crime”
A Twitter account of one night riding along with a high-school classmate who’d become a police officer.
#culture
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“Manufacturing crime”
Orange 1906 art
Orange 1906 art
A lovely orange from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection.
#art#orange
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Orange 1906 art
THANK YOU USPS
THANK YOU USPS
I’ve taken to writing or drawing a thank-you on almost every piece of mail I send. Why not?
#mail
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THANK YOU USPS
Things to look for
Things to look for
In today’s comics: an apple, a fork, a mask, a microscope, a shopping cart, a steering wheel.
#comics
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Things to look for
Torch, passed
Torch, passed
A great opening, by Alexandra Schwartz, writing in The New Yorker about a Bill de Blasio appearance on WNYC.
#writing
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Torch, passed
A Class Divided
A Class Divided
For anyone who hasn’t (or has) seen the Frontline documentary A Class Divided (1985), this would be a good time to watch (or watch again).
#culture#race
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A Class Divided
Where I live
Where I live
A local racist rants on Facebook.
#race
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Where I live
“Modern things”
“Modern things”
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
#Pessoa
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“Modern things”
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
From The Washington Post: “From former presidents to religious leaders, everyone is turning on Trump.”
#democracy#autocracy
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Turn, turn, turn
Things fall apart
Things fall apart
“I’ve seen this kind of violence,” said Gail Helt, a former CIA analyst responsible for tracking developments in China and Southeast Asia. “This is what autocrats do. This is what happens in countries before a collapse. It really does unnerve me.”
#democracy#tyranny#autocracy
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Things fall apart