From this morning’s walk…
The exotic meat section of our local supermarket…
It’s raining so no walk today… a couple from the other day…
There’s something happening in Russia, but as of midnight tonight EDT, what is going on is not clear.
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We were introduced to this mock potato salad by friends pursuing a keto diet. It’s become a regular in the evening meal lineup. It’s a surprisingly satisfying substitute for potato salad.
Is there a 12 step program for half sour pickle addiction?
For creativity to succeed, then, there needs to be breadth of vision; the capacity to forge distant links; flexibility rather than rigidity; a willingness to respond to a changed or changing context; as well as tolerance of ambiguity and of knowledge that is, at least at the outset, inherently imprecise.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/ingE4o6
Talent hits a target no-one else can hit, wrote Schopenhauer; genius hits a target no-one else can see.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/fGdTWh9
The weather app keeps promising rain… the skies keep disappointing…
From this morning’s walk…
Day 7 of the 1000 words of summer challenge and I am almost at 7k words… catching up after having missed the first day. Having fun with this!
All five accordion books for an upcoming show now completed. Now for the slipcases…
New addition to the everyday mandala series…
June 21, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Owen Tucker-Smith of the Los Angeles Times noted that in the past 40 years, the House has censured just five people: Paul Gosar (R-AZ) in 2021 for tweeting a video showing a character with his face killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and attacking President Biden, Charles Rangel (D-NY) in 2010 for finance violations, Gerry Studds (D-MA) and Dan Crane (R-IL) in 1983 for sexual misconduct with House pages, and now Schiff.
June 21, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Last night’s story got weirder, though, because Alito waded into it to attack ProPublica for their reporting. The reporters had reached out to the justice last week to get his side of the story. Yesterday, Alito’s office told the authors he had no comment and then several hours later–before the ProPublica story dropped–Alito published in the Wall Street Journal an op-ed “prebuttal” of what was to come. It was titled: “ProPublica Misleads Its Readers.”
From this morning’s walk…
The consequence was that the more complex her (Joni Mitchel) albums became, the more they were loved by jazz nerds like myself, but not by the general public. It was a curious paradox: the better her music became, the less popular it was.
My book trimming station…
Smaller Is Beautiful :: Essays On Attention Paid
Presently, there is a crisis among the men and women of the mostly white patriarchy in my country. They are refusing to make room for people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people. They are insisting on extreme restrictions to the rights of women to manage their fertility. They are unwilling to make themselves smaller to be part of something larger.
From this morning’s walk…
There is also a crisis in our global economic system which is incapable of constraining itself to be in a sound relationship with the planet we depend on. A pathological relationship emerges when one part of a whole insists on being bigger at the continuous expense of other parts of the whole.
Apparently I was equal parts productive and creative with my screen time yesterday, and only a little bit distracted by social media…
Smaller Is Beautiful :: Essays On Attention Paid
To be in an intimate relationship, we necessarily have to make ourselves smaller in many ways. We have to make room for that other person. It’s not considerate to leave our clothes strewn all over the bedroom or our dishes undone in the sink, or to expect whatever we want whenever we want it. We have to make ourselves smaller to be in that intimate relationship. But, as most of us have experienced, there is great benefit to being in a good relationship.
Did you know that the two most reliable predictors of intelligence are reaction time and color discernment?
The reality is there’s no justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top. Or for how little people at the bottom are paid.