I love cutting through the small talk and getting down to what matters, including the nuance of lived experience. I'm here to seek out that nuance in a world that wants to oversimplify.
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Last Notes npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Nice list of nature reads for Earth Day npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I'm looking for nice-quality stationery, particularly writing paper for letters, but all of the related accoutrements, too (stickers/seals, pens/ink, envelopes, etc.) npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Many of my very good English-language grammar explanations are disappearing from the web -- ones that I have compiled over the course of my career from people who explained concepts before I even needed to. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Ooh, I've gotten so many recs from this thread. Thanks to everyone who's shared! npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I immediately dismiss every pop-up window without looking at it these days because I figure it's just trying to tell me about AI. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Another week slogging away at corporate exploitation done. One week closer to old age and the relinquishment of dreams. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Really lovely. The smell must be amazing! And that is one wonderful mixer. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering "Five years after the start of the worst health crisis in living memory, there is a national conversation waiting to be had about the roles of the individual, society and the state in such a crisis. What is my responsibility to myself and to my community, and what is the responsibility of the state towards us? At each level there is room for improvement, but we’re not addressing it. Let’s hope we can have that conversation before we’re tested again, but first the more strident – and misguided – voices have to pipe down." npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering So revealing. Thanks for sharing! npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I've been thinking about cultures of silence. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I enjoyed this lecture about the "philosophical challenges of early art." npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I fear for my friends who are routinely ill, but all I can do is offer sympathy from afar. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering This weekend, I met remotely with three Americans I've stayed in touch with since they moved back to the US. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering As someone who doesn't want to get Covid or any of the other viruses floating around, I mask indoors. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I'm coming to the end of Braiding Sweetgrass, and I wanted to share two final quotes from the book. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering A look at moral resilience in health care, but some of the concepts can be applied more widely. Thoughtful and thought-provoking. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I read The Serviceberry at the end of 2024 and knew I had to read Braiding Sweetgrass. Both are very beautiful with messages that are so currently needed. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I'm reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and this quote is too beautiful not to share. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering His antidote is curation and archiving – and an easy form of curation, recommendation. Because these are human acts – they respect the work and create networks of connection, either one-on-one or within a community. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I read the book on a visit to Lisbon and applied some of the ideas in the book to what I experienced. Most of the restaurants served the same five dishes. The same narrative about the 1755 earthquake was repeated time and again in information about the city. Tiles were for sale everywhere, some authentically produced, some facsimiles. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Before the year was out, I finished the book Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, which is about the flattening of culture at the hands of (the people who develop) algorithms. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Aww, thanks. They hold special memories for me -- I especially loved visiting the Etruscan Museum because it was almost empty both times I went. I was able to take my time, really look and enjoy. A rare and precious experience. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Certainly! In addition to the ones attached, I posted one earlier (https://convo.casa/@Furthering/113706944679897040) but here are some more. :) npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I tried to scale down to a smaller camera -- somewhere in between the ones with changeable lenses and a camera phone -- and went on a friend's recommendation. Unfortunately, it didn't have a view finder, and trying to use only the screen to frame photos was problematic. Under any type of sunlight, the screen was unreadable. If I went that route again, the camera would have to have to have a view finder, but these smaller format ones are nice to pull out when you're confronted with a particularly nice scene, and they're easy to travel with. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I'm used the holidays being a bit difficult. They were never very fun before I moved abroad, and while they improved for a while, this year I'm on my own. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I'm now reading The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A quote early in the book reads: npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering As someone who is not musical, I appreciate this insight into the composition process. As a word person, I'm always intrigued by the way musicians describe music ("momentum, energy, and shape") in a way that gives us a different way to understand it and think about it. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Yes, definitely! npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Indeed onerous, but indeed worth it. Hope you have a way to safely hydrate. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering The city I live in tried this, sowing wildflowers along the river and alongside one boulevard. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Oh, wow. I didn't know this was even legal. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering On the same day I read an article about how the Arctic seed vault may be a failed experiment, I also read a beautiful article about how nature maintains its own seed banks. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering At least one of those is definitely a potato. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering Sometimes the noise of cars/people playing music, the rudeness of other pedestrians, and the risk of getting clobbered by a cyclist/scooterist is simply too much, no matter how important it is to get sunlight and outdoor exercise. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering "Snyder: I have a very specific view, which is that it's good for empires to lose wars. They don't always lose them, but it's good for them to lose. Poland, Germany, Italy -- these are all postimperial countries. Spain, France, Britain -- these are postimperial countries. This thing called European integration is a postimperial phenomenon. In daily political practice, trying to maintain an empire is inconsistent with trying to maintain the rule of law or human rights at home. npub1u3glpwrvlhkt8fq97qk07t68jqmwdm4hh2de3ykqdh2ha5098pfsmx4qr0 Furthering I have been reading and thinking about normalcy bias lately.
