Expect an eclectic range of subjects here. I’m a public school teacher with an MFA in poetry living in the gritty end of the “Happy Valley.” 🎾⚽️🥾🍎🍺🗽✏️
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I built a lamp for 3 am, for when it’s raining and the year of COVID schooling is almost done. 1/
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A quarter of the U.S.'s roughly 30,000 United Methodist churches — which once dominated the country's religious landscape — have left the denomination, according to the church's news agency. At issue is the question of ordaining and marrying LGBTQ people. nyti.ms/41rbqRC
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
— Hannah Arendt
Florida is now the book-banning state.
🚨 NEW: 24 Bestselling Authors with Billions of Readers Are Banding Together To Fight Book Bans in Florida and Nationwide.
"Unprecedented Mobilization" Includes @TheAmandaGorman @Connellybooks @judyblume @davidbaldacci @jodipicoult: pen.org/press-release/bestse… #BannedBooksWeek
“My anti-phonics perspective took root in 1991, when I wrote my first feature story as an intern for the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts.” 🤔 kappanonline.org/ghezzi-russ…
Tennis is a Hobbesian struggle for aspiring pros. youtu.be/STff_wOQHn4?si=Alpo…
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"It's the shape of the world all around you that causes your blues. And your blues is caused by some things you want and can't have."
This doesn’t sound good.
These 5 powerful groups are trying to end sex ed in schools, and they’re winning
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“He says nobody understands how he feels / but that don’t pay those monthly bills” — Bottle Rockets, “Welfare Music” youtu.be/TMqQ5s4lTPQ?si=lQFt…
I’ve been listening to @ClintSmithIII’s book, How The Word Is Passed, on audiobook. It’s quite sobering. I’m now in the chapter on Blandford Cemetery, where he is talking about the Lost Cause mythology and its deliberate obsfucation of American history. clintsmithiii.com/how-the-wo…
I keep thinking of this, how Shaara frames the conflict through description of the armies — the pluralist north v. the homogeneous south. #Gettysburg #KillerAngels
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This all day: "History without discomfort is propaganda." [via @ned@mstdn.ca]
Watergate, p. 559, Nixon’s 1974 New Year’s Note: “Fight because if I am forced to resign, the press will become too much of a dominant force in the nation” and “act like a President, act like a winner. Opponents are destroyers, haters.”
In @vermontgmg’s Watergate, p. 376, a recurring tennis match between Woodward and Sy Hersh at the Arlington Y. Makes me think of @postpost_its and @dellsystem’s audio installation on Wallace v. Amis. 🎾📝📕
We enjoyed exploring Toronto like this.
Exploring a new city can be a joyful experience. Moving forward without a plan. Wandering on foot or going where the bus goes. Discovering secrets and local favorites. But to do this, we need human-movement transportation. bit.ly/3OIJDr9
