Listening to Start the Week and a conversation about violence and conflict.
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Listening to Start the Week and a conversation about violence and conflict.
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Listening to Start the Week and a conversation about violence and conflict.
Blue sky this morning
Listened to a podcast on poetry. Enjoyed it but was puzzled to hear them calling each other mom and dad. Realized it was a Christian homeschooling outfit from the West Coast. Still, not bad….made me think about the whole credentialing thing — who gets to wear the mantle of expert — and one of the participants did offer an interesting phrase — literary density. I like this idea as some texts definitely carry more weight and can sustain repeated, thorough analysis, with new payoffs each time.
Sun Again
Listening to This American Life: The Walls.
Sun rISES in the East
Tuesday Morning Walk
Listening to the NYT Book Review Podcast: Andrew Delbanco invoking Emerson: The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.I think the source is here.
Rob Dunn’s book sounds good too.
Monday morning sky
Start the Week on happiness and the last half of part one of Studio 360’s 2018 hits.
Does inflammation in any part of the body contribute to depression?
Why shouldn’t we re-make Remain in Light over and over again?
Why shouldn’t we read dense, complicated novels to address the lack of light during winter?
Where can I find as much library music as possible?
Morning walk with Professor Corrigan
Listening to a talk she gave about Gatsby when her latest book came out. I’m trying to do something similar with my current group — how do we read Gatsby for the first time?
I also listened to Isabel Wilkerson talking about Michelle Obama’s Autobiography. I did not get as far with Warmth of Other Suns as I would have liked. Need to return to it.
Room of Requirement
From a definition early in the show:
A library: one of the few places left in America where you can enter without requirements, where you don’t have to buy or believe anything.
It’s an interesting idea, though, one to think about: how rarely or how often does school provide a room of requirement? How do we distinguish between what we think we want, what we think we need, and what we require?
This American Life: The Room of Requirement
Weds back to school
Quiet Penn Walk
Nobody home at Penn today…
On the Media: Remembering J Frank
