Really important read from HCR this morning…
September 1, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to focus on ending abortion, and their determination is leading them to assert power over citizens of Republican-dominated states in a way that is commonly associated with authoritarian governments.
I love especially, “By a Lover of Her Sex.”
Photo Challenge Day 1: Abstract 📷
Having a rancid morning. Getting nothing done. Technology resisting me. Foul mood as a result. Maybe I should go back to bed.:(
From yesterday…
From yesterday…
Hope M.b peeps in Florida have found refuge from the storm. Thinking about you.
A rich man with a beautiful house is like a jewel on a leper’s body…. Our business is not in jewellery, but in the body politic…. What good is it to a sick, unclean man, if he wears jewels.
–D.H. Lawrence
Got a card reader that allows me to transfer images from my Nikon to my iPhone and iPad for editing. Travel game changer!
From yesterday…
This is an amazing song…
Last night we watched the first episode of The Morning Show. Wowa, hope it continues to be as good. Never been a complete fan of Jennifer Aniston, but she’s pretty good. And I am a huge fan of Steve Carrel, and Rise Witherspoon is pretty good too. And the writing is good too.
that science that was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis, that lucidity founders in metaphor, that uncertainty is resolved in a work of art. What need had I of so many efforts?”
— The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International) by Albert Camus a.co/9aEIGQ3
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
— The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International) by Albert Camus a.co/fst48cL
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being – The Marginalian
Complex systems, including human bodies and human societies, can change their behaviors in the face of the unpredictable. That creativity is the essence of complexity.
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being – The Marginalian
Each day, we eat food that becomes us, its molecules metabolized into our own as we move through the world with the illusion of a self. Each day, we live with the puzzlement of what makes us and our childhood self the “same” person, even though most of our cells and our dreams have been replaced. Each day, we find ourselves restless miniatures of a vast universe we are only just beginning to fathom.
fios By Verizon, A Contemporary Take on The Myth of Sisyphus :: Essays On Attention Paid
When we got home, we discovered we had no internet. “Oh no!” I thought. I called the store across the river and asked if they had disconnected our service. “Yes,” they said. “But why?!” I said, “I didn’t ask for that!” “A misunderstanding,” they said. “But we’ll get it back for you.”
From yesterday…
fios By Verizon, A Contemporary Take on The Myth of Sisyphus :: Essays On Attention Paid
There was only one problem, the ugly white signal extender tower sitting on the floor of our living room. It’s ugly we said. “It’s powerful, the technician said. “It will cover the whole house,” he said. “No need for your Eero mesh network,” he said. “Ok, we’ll try your ugly white tower,” we said, “maybe it’s better.” It wasn’t. So we unplugged it and plugged in our Eero mesh network. Strong signal everywhere. “Yay! Let’s return the ugly white tower!”
August 26, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
And now women are the crucial demographic going into the 2024 elections. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg noted in June that there was a huge spike of women registering to vote after the Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion, and that Democratic turnout has exceeded expectations ever since.
Mind, Body, Earth, Community :: Essays On Attention Paid
It is the right brain, McGilchrist tells us, that is capable of understanding context and developing a meaningful narrative about it. It is the right brain that can situate itself in space and time, and understand the narrative that is the mind and body interacting with the earth and the cosmos. It is the right brain that can grope towards truth and meaning through experience, and in league with a community of individuals.
Winds Blowing Us Back Home - by Rhyd Wildermuth
Fortunately, it is mostly only a matter of remembering, and it’s most often all joy. What is it like to grow a bit of one’s food at home, rather than shop for it in garishly-lit warehouses? What does one do without a screen to tell you what to think? How does one meet other humans without algorithmic filters telling you who “likes” you? How do we provide for ourselves without capitalist networks of distribution, or capitalist employment, or capitalist management?
Winds Blowing Us Back Home - by Rhyd Wildermuth
It isn’t the earth that is dying, as it cannot die. It’s carrying on quite well, actually, doing precisely the things the earth does in response to human pressures. It’s responding perfectly fine to our destruction, in the way a healthy body responds to an infection.
The earth isn’t in a state of crisis.
We are.
Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work – The Marginalian
Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.
We are in the last gasp throws of the white patriarchy in my country. Hopefully they don’t succeed in taking democracy down with them.