Robert Reich visits Bedford Falls

You tell 'em, George!

https://www.threads.com/@rbreich/post/DSnDdIaiWTi?xmt=AQF0faLgm0qVo_M4Z4-8a1H3goT59LSL4fdlUxpE__Ju2RxalfSXyJ4PFG5v9pyTRS5v_yX0&slof=1

“Crabbing”

Viktor Frankl on the Importance of Overestimating People

https://substack.com/@thememoryhole/note/c-190091061?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

The most hopeful day

Happy Winter Solstice — always, to me, the most hopeful day of the year.

"Solstice": from the Latin sol (sun) & sistere (to stand still).

The shortest daylight, the longest night, the Sun describing its lowest arc across the sky, the northern Pole at its maximum tilt away from the Sun.

But we made it — and the year's light-tide turns here.

Birdsong busy and bright outside in the beeches this morning.

—Robert MacFarlane

https://www.threads.com/@robgmacfarlane/post/DShYdqtDTXy?xmt=AQF0l5ilwgYlnTizlIBpW7kybWyRmrkzRtD_fNxiSXALZO1VUI0Hug4giHpVqefKdu7iycEN&slof=1

Get out

  

Thanks, Heather!

Good listeners

"I remember late one night in Paris / speaking at length to a dog in English / about the future of American culture." Read "Le Chien," a poem by Billy Collins from the collection Dog Show.

https://lithub.com/le-chien-a-poem-by-billy-collins/

Experienced

Keep the faith

"As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate."

E.B. White's beautiful letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/06/e-b-white-letters-of-note-book/

In my element

 I'm amused to discover that my current photo on our department website is not the official pic snapped a few years ago by a campus photographer- admittedly a bit outdated, that guy still had a bit of hair- but a whimsical selfie I took on a more recent birthday, in the cemetery near school. It appealed to my slightly morbid sense of humor to celebrate another year closer to eternity in that setting. But I didn't submit that photo or authorize its use for official public-facing purposes. I wonder who found it and decided to post it.

No matter, though. I'm pleased to be represented in my element... our element, since (as Annie Dillard said) we're all destined to spend eternity on this mote of dust, most of it tucked under. Philosophy is about learning to die (and thus live while we can), after all. And I'm happy to present myself to our prospective students in the great outdoors, on this side of the turf.

Logical fallacies

10 most common-

https://www.threads.com/@curiousmindshub_/post/DRzbycojq3R?xmt=AQF0r85RCSv1LEAyh3YQhm58dH6kWcMJnHAVga6zgRLzfYfFYSO-tAZniGi7qqTuTC_nA9A&slof=1