Ok, Karen, Sharon, Becky, Jenny, let's get on the phone. 3. More and more stories of black folks encountering racism are being documented and shared through social media — whether it’s at a hotel, with the police, in a coffee shop, at a school, etc. When you see such a post, call the organization, company, …
white people. do something. (2)
2. Google whether your city or town currently employs evidence-based police de-escalation trainings. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Write to your city or town government representative and police chief and advocate for it. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on …
white people. do something. (1)
I came across this article (posted below) on twitter yesterday and I am committing to doing all 75 of these suggestions. I will keep you posted on my progress and urge any and all of you to commit along with me. I quote Martin Luther King all the time-- “It may well be that we …
Silver Linings (69) The Music of Time
At a pre-covid dinner party, I made one of my usual off-hand provocative remarks a propos of I can't remember what. I said: "Well, of course, time doesn't really exist." This elicited skepticism and doubt and I launched into my usual minimally-informed blather about Einstein and Entropy. But I think in this very strange …
There is no silver lining today
Yesterday was another especially brutal day in the US in terms of racial justice. Or not. It's just we now have the videos to show what is simply another day for the black citizens of our country. Life-threatening harassment while bird-watching, being murdered for going on a run, police brutality ending in cruel death. Not …
Silver Linings (68) The Masked Birder in Central Park
Silver Linings (67) Gardens
Happy Memorial Day. This is from my run in Riverside Park. And thanks to the Royal Academy, here are some mini tours (under three minutes) through the gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny Pierre Bonnard at Vernonnet Emile Nolde in Seebull Max Liebermann in Wahnsee and Henri Le Sidaner in Picardy And for some meditative walks …
THIS IS HOW I FEEL…
On a good day... https://media.giphy.com/media/5dkiNJvWnL1RK/giphy.gif And this is how I feel on a bad one... https://media.giphy.com/media/BmP44PntOd6eI/giphy.gif
Silver Linings (66) Dante’s Bones
A virus projected to kill off half the world’s population is set to be released within 24 hours. A demoniacal billionaire geneticist created the pathogen in order to solve the world’s overpopulation problem. Dante’s apocalyptic vision of the underworld swirls around the race to find the virus, a crucial clue to the evil plan hidden …
Silver Linings (65) The Lyric Essence of the Moment
I want to recommend four classic short stories I have recently read or listened to that, though written long ago, capture, in their own particular and peculiar way, "The lyric essence of the moment," a phrase taken from... Willa Cather's short story "A Death in the Desert" which I listened to this morning on The …
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