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.
Tuesday Morning Walk
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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
Thursday Walk
SEPTA isn’t getting there but that’s a story for another day. I had to walk to school from 42nd Street. At least I got this photo.
Last Week’s Walks
Only in Philadelphia
Only in Philly do you congratulate yourself on identifying the only DMV that’s open on Monday’s near you only to arrive and find the office closed. Because someone crashed their car into the DMV building. Through a window and door.
I get that people use that lot to practice driving, but seriously, you can’t make this up.
My other pallet project
Going to slowly fill with plants, mostly succulents.
