tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56344936514327990612024-03-17T21:59:49.638-05:00Delight SpringsA blog about ideas, popular culture, philosophy, and personal enthusiasms (or "springs of delight") of all kinds.Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1744125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-22605139274123932962024-03-17T08:41:00.001-05:002024-03-17T08:41:29.668-05:00With a twist<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFYYzmdq_nOqboLSv-dJsIgtN9Sucf5dkvMy4aLoCmQ50A4-KJ3y3D1_DmlVuhn2ILfJJ3W6hJBMNOVZ-vkhoqiJSoQc8za04Y2q3FFiQVWV1AMj56_ZOlQcvyTm6ni7pX1SVmZpgjpRHxzR201cKM2777_LUQoEaQxQ5HYiBls-tra5oCC9a393T9-IM"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFYYzmdq_nOqboLSv-dJsIgtN9Sucf5dkvMy4aLoCmQ50A4-KJ3y3D1_DmlVuhn2ILfJJ3W6hJBMNOVZ-vkhoqiJSoQc8za04Y2q3FFiQVWV1AMj56_ZOlQcvyTm6ni7pX1SVmZpgjpRHxzR201cKM2777_LUQoEaQxQ5HYiBls-tra5oCC9a393T9-IM=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7347327066386888738" /></a></p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@secularstudents/post/C4ldY7RpyuK/?xmt=AQGzS4EPsZQrPIeTnFjkg65_dfbvAoTPAeUoISINPLSjvQ">https://www.threads.net/@secularstudents/post/C4ldY7RpyuK/?xmt=AQGzS4EPsZQrPIeTnFjkg65_dfbvAoTPAeUoISINPLSjvQ</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-4643836095656707112024-03-17T08:22:00.001-05:002024-03-17T08:22:12.579-05:00Hannah Arendt and the art of beginning afresh: “we are free to change the world”<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; min-height: 60px; background: url("images/sprites@2x.png") 0px -73px / 69px 128px no-repeat; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: fira-sans; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Hannah Arendt is a creative and complex thinker; she writes about power and terror, war and revolution, exile and love, and, above all, about freedom. Reading her is never just an intellectual exercise, it is an experience.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: fira-sans; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">[…]</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: fira-sans; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">She loved the human condition for what it was: terrible, beautiful, perplexing, amazing, and above all, exquisitely precious. And she never stopped believing in a politics that might be true to that condition. Her writing has much to tell us about how we got to this point in our history, about the madness of modern politics and about the awful, empty thoughtlessness of contemporary political violence. But she also teaches that it is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.825em; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, serif, Georgia; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">She too lived in a "post-truth era," she too watched the fragmentation of reality in a shared world, and she saw with uncommon lucidity that the only path to freedom is the free mind. Whether she was writing about <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/02/25/love-and-saint-augustine-hannah-arendt/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(225, 155, 155); border-image: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;">love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss</a> or about <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/06/15/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendt/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(225, 155, 155); border-image: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;">lying in politics</a>, she was always teaching her reader, as Stonebridge observes, not what to think but how to think — a credo culminating in her parting gift to the world: <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/16/hannah-arendt-the-life-of-the-mind/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(225, 155, 155); border-image: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(195, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Life of the Mind</em></a>...</p>https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/15/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendt/</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-23394189317020886872024-03-17T08:17:00.001-05:002024-03-17T08:17:17.661-05:00Rachel Carson's lost ode to the science of the sky<div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#595959" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font>https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/regret-sky-arendt</div><div dir="ltr"></div>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-83420549719009190432024-03-17T07:58:00.001-05:002024-03-17T07:58:38.201-05:00Conscious addition: Barzun on reading "Reading of course can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life.
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<br>If life is measured by consciousness, one whose mind is full lives longer than one whose mind is empty — just as one who is awake 18 hours a day lives longer than one who sleeps away every 12 hours.
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<br>You can add to life by adding to the quantity of conscious moments through reading."
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<br>— Jacques Barzun
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<br><a href="https://substack.com/@poeticoutlaws/note/c-51709813?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action">https://substack.com/@poeticoutlaws/note/c-51709813?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-41304854549964069612024-03-16T08:44:00.003-05:002024-03-16T08:44:36.194-05:00Annoyingly pragmatic<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4k0BbVBIK1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4k0BbVBIK1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4k0BbVBIK1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by The New Yorker Cartoons (@newyorkercartoons)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-62645192900924545642024-03-15T08:27:00.001-05:002024-03-15T08:27:41.535-05:00The deep thrill of teaching<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>"I have projected a process of choice and shape as if teaching were really what the ancients and their Renaissance emulators said it was, a sculpting process, whereby the clay or stone or wax, inorganic material but malleable, could, through choices, be made to take a shape that nature never saw, a shape art supplies to the stuff the world provides. While I do not think teaching is as painless or effortless as I may have made it sound, I do believe it is essentially the ethical and aesthetic activity I propose. I do believe that it involves the making and setting of right and wrong choices in the interests of a larger, shaping process and that the deep thrill a teacher can experience comes from the combination of these activities, so that you feel what you think, do what you talk about, judge as you talk about judgment, proceed logically as you reveal logical structure, clarify as you talk about clarity, reveal as you show what nature reveals-all in the service of encouraging the student in imitation and then repetition of the process you have been summoning, all so that the student may turn himself not into you but into himself. - - A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI, A Free and Ordered Space"</p> <p dir=ltr>"BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti" by Anthony Valerio, Robert Brower: https://a.co/8bbPUDD</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-71901435604535170942024-03-15T08:19:00.001-05:002024-03-15T08:19:40.488-05:00"to organize the daylight"<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>"There comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it. Whatever the reason, it seemed to me that I was investing more and more in baseball, making the game do more of the work that keeps time fat and slow and lazy. I was counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and its deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight. - -A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI, "The Green Fields of the Mind""</p> <p dir=ltr>"BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti" by Anthony Valerio, Robert Brower: https://a.co/cii31HQ</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-4412605864130458732024-03-03T10:21:00.003-06:002024-03-03T10:21:40.897-06:00Diamonds in the desert<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4DvDvgxD0c/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4DvDvgxD0c/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C38GLPzrE9w/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Yogi Berra Museum (@yogiberramuseum)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-63289808888307161142024-02-29T05:06:00.001-06:002024-02-29T05:06:35.638-06:00CJ just doesn’t get it<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C36ZuYixY0d/?igsh=enRua3R5YmxybWd6">https://www.instagram.com/reel/C36ZuYixY0d/?igsh=enRua3R5YmxybWd6</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-21645782165291044832024-02-27T06:29:00.001-06:002024-02-27T06:29:31.915-06:00Roger Angell, chronicler of the experience of caring<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>Nobody Did It Better Than Roger Angell</p> <p dir=ltr>...Angell profiled generations of the biggest stars in the game. He wrote about every World Series for decades; he covered spring training and the minor leagues and entirely forgettable weekday contests. But what tied all of this work together was its sense of purpose: Angell understood just why people watched baseball and just why people wanted to read about it. He knew what made the game important alongside what made it anything but. And he understood all of this because he <i>lived </i>all of this: Roger Angell was a baseball fan. If this seems like it should be a given for a baseball writer, it hasn’t always been, and that’s illuminated by the gap between his work and that of so many others. Who else could write this <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/04/07/the-sporting-scene-the-old-folks-behind-home">experience of spring training from the stands</a> (1962) and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/09/22/distance">this incisive profile of Bob Gibson</a> (1980) and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/dont-say-a-word">this meditation on watching a blown save with his wife</a> (2011)? The common thread is the understanding of what it means to love the game...<br> https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/05/21/roger-angell-death-nobody-did-it-better</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-10956907280386186152024-02-27T06:11:00.001-06:002024-02-27T06:11:57.708-06:00Twain on travel <p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5sgp9PmFgzJVYg7XlFbBx5WcOW1kG6OkR7HvDqKZvnFfIxF_M4xuCPcFTBZmgnw8DLiQXE4TP1Fw2shLzqfuqHpar99THIgnvqTI5gC5SSPUJi_n6pWys_6onkafwN7Xn-uotW6lNdWjBFv-FAH5JPM4LpzQoa1hq32Md9x8Ng3hzQK0LzeWQdafQ8I0"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5sgp9PmFgzJVYg7XlFbBx5WcOW1kG6OkR7HvDqKZvnFfIxF_M4xuCPcFTBZmgnw8DLiQXE4TP1Fw2shLzqfuqHpar99THIgnvqTI5gC5SSPUJi_n6pWys_6onkafwN7Xn-uotW6lNdWjBFv-FAH5JPM4LpzQoa1hq32Md9x8Ng3hzQK0LzeWQdafQ8I0=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7340253382651800850" /></a></p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@debpixcom/post/C32XsXXrl_l/">https://www.threads.net/@debpixcom/post/C32XsXXrl_l/</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-46832903121026881282024-02-27T06:08:00.001-06:002024-02-27T06:08:34.490-06:00No cult required Christopher Hitchens Dismisses the Cult of Ayn Rand: There's No "Need to Have Essays Advocating Selfishness Among Human Beings; It Requires No Reinforcement"
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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3v0J8rvYxR/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Nashville Tennessee (@nashvilletn)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-25168600879193300772024-02-23T06:55:00.001-06:002024-02-23T06:55:47.740-06:00Feynman on others’ expectations<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiML1Vk8lmjc4-6NfBas5-7VIh8afgbH-IVBkAz0YWZsGjL4wAehtLXL7xY0G6vQE5Apa6XNNJliWORuX_pRDsrS4Ho3gzrgPi2TZndaqGXRnJTNIYMHyN_Olhy8Ry-Q96g51ADEE29d6NteP4e_ReSzpRiD7ZLPf2tsUS2ixNwK0HZlQmkrQRooZaYScs"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiML1Vk8lmjc4-6NfBas5-7VIh8afgbH-IVBkAz0YWZsGjL4wAehtLXL7xY0G6vQE5Apa6XNNJliWORuX_pRDsrS4Ho3gzrgPi2TZndaqGXRnJTNIYMHyN_Olhy8Ry-Q96g51ADEE29d6NteP4e_ReSzpRiD7ZLPf2tsUS2ixNwK0HZlQmkrQRooZaYScs=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7338780334262771378" /></a></p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@thepoetnotarockstar/post/C3rK3J6rWZ_/">https://www.threads.net/@thepoetnotarockstar/post/C3rK3J6rWZ_/</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-86539220872562526502024-02-23T06:52:00.001-06:002024-02-23T06:52:09.222-06:00Earth and moon from Cassini<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCuNJRkIiG8CK8mKG8elLHGx8MEWKG_c2j4r-7bvtkC0wY3lEy9edCnEVv1wHI65XPQinOdFTwN-fl69z_FrY5oiVNS7U7sZW11prKcNdrc6b7Kq7b9FtWLD-D3LRPQ7tF9ePGu0epzMwvU9DQPlS3E7hS1czgrJUSB744gZTT66cCi8_rmyTqxCnM_kM"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCuNJRkIiG8CK8mKG8elLHGx8MEWKG_c2j4r-7bvtkC0wY3lEy9edCnEVv1wHI65XPQinOdFTwN-fl69z_FrY5oiVNS7U7sZW11prKcNdrc6b7Kq7b9FtWLD-D3LRPQ7tF9ePGu0epzMwvU9DQPlS3E7hS1czgrJUSB744gZTT66cCi8_rmyTqxCnM_kM=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7338779397018498594" /></a></p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@amaziingastronomy/post/C3qSbz1o8HB/">https://www.threads.net/@amaziingastronomy/post/C3qSbz1o8HB/</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-59653387639781858132024-02-21T13:03:00.001-06:002024-02-21T13:03:37.604-06:00Wiped out<div dir="ltr">@asherperlman: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3nLx5POY_Y/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=M2M0Y2JmOTAyOA==">https://www.instagram.com/p/C3nLx5POY_Y/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=M2M0Y2JmOTAyOA==</a></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-26860656159594206512024-02-21T08:00:00.001-06:002024-02-21T08:00:29.166-06:00Guess who?<div dir="ltr">@petesouza: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3khI9JOn7O/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=M2M0Y2JmOTAyOA==">https://www.instagram.com/p/C3khI9JOn7O/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=M2M0Y2JmOTAyOA==</a></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-55988484490590826082024-02-20T22:15:00.001-06:002024-02-20T22:15:32.084-06:00Flying Dutchman<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><p dir=ltr>"He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a reading over 6 generally means that a person has so abstracted himself from himself and from the world around him, seeing things as theories and himself as a shadow, that he cannot, so to speak, reenter the lovely ordinary world. Instead he orbits the earth and himseIvlf. Such a person, and there are millions, is destined to haunt the human condition like the Flying Dutchman."</p> <p dir=ltr>"Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World" by Walker Percy: https://a.co/jbrgM0E</p> </font>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-6959535212840708652024-02-20T05:50:00.001-06:002024-02-20T05:50:47.092-06:00Ur OK<a href="https://substack.com/@figsinwinter/note/c-49915469?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action">https://substack.com/@figsinwinter/note/c-49915469?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-23639577490019446302024-02-20T05:40:00.001-06:002024-02-20T05:40:11.116-06:00A former slave’s remarkable letter to his old “owner”Letters of note
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<br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/everyone-gets-jesusexcept-american?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/everyone-gets-jesusexcept-american?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a>Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634493651432799061.post-91296618600679086442024-02-09T19:25:00.001-06:002024-02-09T19:25:23.187-06:00‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries<div dir="ltr">Can this be <i>true?!</i><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">They have killed skinny jeans and continue to shame millennials for having side partings in their hair. They think using the crying tears emoji to express laughter is embarrassing. But now comes a surprising gen Z plot twist. One habit that those born between 1997 and 2012 are keen to endorse is reading – and it's physical books rather than digital that they are thumbing... <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/09/reading-is-so-sexy-gen-z-turns-to-physical-books-and-libraries?CMP=share_btn_link">Guardian</a></blockquote></div></div> Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com0