Go ahead, ask me what I’ve been doing lately…
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The movie we watched is Nomadland directed by Chloe Zhao.
Go ahead, ask me what I’ve been doing lately…
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The movie we watched is Nomadland directed by Chloe Zhao.
My personal goal is to write this in one day. Sometimes my thoughts and ideas fly and dip like ‘always soaring never landing’ albatrosses – but do you know what happens to people who pursue albatrosses? They end up in the drink. Which is where more of my writing ends than you’d think.
How many feelings have you cycled through since the Inauguration? I’ve been the Lance Armstrong (without the drugs or cancer) of ups, downs, responses, relief, and outrage.
I read that the Twitter word trending last Thursday morning was “slept.” As in “I slept well last night for the first time in four years. How about you?”
I heard part of an NPR / Fresh Air interview with writer Ayad Akhtar so I borrowed the book from the library and read it.
“A powerful, rollicking adventure that takes us across America and deep into one person’s life-and-death experience.”
Carl Zimmer, one of America’s foremost science writers
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Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America
Outpedaling "The Big C": My Healing Cycle across America Elizabeth McGowan Bancroft Press (Sep 6, 2020) Hardcover $28.95 (268pp) 978-1-61088-514-0
I just finished reading “Red Dust – A Path Through China” by Ma Jain. It is a remarkable book that asks more questions than it answers.
Started this yesterday and couldn’t figure out how to say it clearly. Let me try again…
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It seems as if nearly all social media has turned into a referendum and compendium of ways to think about Racism in America. This is good. This is necessary. Keep reading and keep sharing.
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As you may have noticed, I didn’t post anything yesterday. I had a nice day with an early morning walk (before the hard rain aka snow), talking on the phone with my kids, and reading.
I read Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop” when I was in high school. I heard it was an important book which made me curious (still does), so I borrowed it from the library and read the whole thing.