Thursday, October 17, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Of course it was
It was on this day in 1892 that the Pledge of Allegiance was recited en masse for the first time, by more than 2 million students. It had been written just a month earlier by a Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy…
https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/the-writers-almanac-from-saturday-82c?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios
Friday, October 11, 2024
Mary Oliver's canine pedagogy
The Poetry Teacher
The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can't bring your dog. It's in my contract, I said. (I had made sure of that.) We bargained and I moved to an old classroom in an old building. Propped the door open. Kept a bowl of water in the room. I could hear Ben among other voices barking, howling in the distance. Then they would all arrive — Ben, his pals, maybe an unknown dog or two, all of them thirsty and happy. They drank, they flung themselves down among the students. The students loved it. They all wrote thirsty, happy poems.
https://voetica.com/poem/5712
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Enterprise
Gene Roddenberry, the Star Trek cast and NASA administrators attended the rollout ceremony for the aptly named Space Shuttle Enterprise. ππ
https://www.threads.net/@roddenberryofficial/post/DABvyaGoPph/?xmt=AQGz53LUvM56968kDqz34zHQOsBncSSxbFkUW_x5G5EVeQ
https://www.threads.net/@roddenberryofficial/post/DABvyaGoPph/?xmt=AQGz53LUvM56968kDqz34zHQOsBncSSxbFkUW_x5G5EVeQ
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
If you build it…
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
πΊπΈ has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, & erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
Legend. RIP James Earl Jones.
https://www.threads.net/@ben_verlander/post/C_trb85ygou/?xmt=AQGzAsWgVF7ItbNLSmDWlRXnKE4BoswG5_5UgbVbMChQEA
πΊπΈ has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, & erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
Legend. RIP James Earl Jones.
https://www.threads.net/@ben_verlander/post/C_trb85ygou/?xmt=AQGzAsWgVF7ItbNLSmDWlRXnKE4BoswG5_5UgbVbMChQEA
What Albert knew
I first heard this from deejay philosopher Chris in the Morning on Northern Exposure, c.1990.
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose ... There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men ... upon whose well-being our own happiness depends." - Albert Einstein
https://www.threads.net/@alberteinstein/post/C_soOPsRGj1/?xmt=AQGzC6HwLudP8ct-vMpld3vt3UL6zK43qSldqmUWDtBI8Q
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose ... There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men ... upon whose well-being our own happiness depends." - Albert Einstein
https://www.threads.net/@alberteinstein/post/C_soOPsRGj1/?xmt=AQGzC6HwLudP8ct-vMpld3vt3UL6zK43qSldqmUWDtBI8Q
Saturday, September 7, 2024
If I’d seen this when I was a kid…
Astronaut plays baseball by himself in space ⚾️
https://www.threads.net/@ikluqa/post/C_mr7NRRhLK/?xmt=AQGzTYk2G7FTXXWTVlP2X1Cw7ETJjZJNI_qRAZB1_5SJWA
https://www.threads.net/@ikluqa/post/C_mr7NRRhLK/?xmt=AQGzTYk2G7FTXXWTVlP2X1Cw7ETJjZJNI_qRAZB1_5SJWA
Friday, September 6, 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
A perfect novel
John Williams's masterpiece Stoner (1965) "is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away," wrote Morris Dickstein in The New York Times. But Williams, born 102 years ago on this day, wasn't limited to the campus setting of his best-known work, exploring the dark side of the Old West in Butcher's Crossing (1960) and the Roman Empire in Augustus (1972).
hiddengems
https://www.threads.net/@libraryofamerica/post/C_QcJK3uwlC/?xmt=AQGzMoUeBW0sNzRlmlEZt29Mng02kCpbdAjyaiXjhW_kAQ
hiddengems
https://www.threads.net/@libraryofamerica/post/C_QcJK3uwlC/?xmt=AQGzMoUeBW0sNzRlmlEZt29Mng02kCpbdAjyaiXjhW_kAQ
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Shohei’s π
Shohei Ohtani's dog, Decoy, threw the first pitch tonight πΆ
https://www.threads.net/@dodgers360/post/C_PJkttvQA7/?xmt=AQGzamUmAknZMLV6OmmZbdYJoRefFPnPer0dEfPbnH6PzA
https://www.threads.net/@dodgers360/post/C_PJkttvQA7/?xmt=AQGzamUmAknZMLV6OmmZbdYJoRefFPnPer0dEfPbnH6PzA
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