Category: Music
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JPod writes for me why I left social media
Here’s the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that thoughts are not actions. You can rage in your
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Isn’t this too much punishment?
For ten or so daysI’ve been searching for a loaf,just a loaf.They said it vanished from global warehouses.A child saw it take to the stage,or was it bombed by a plane. The loaf is elusive, and my feet are tired.My little ones don’t understand,they think they’re in the old days,you ate whenever you got hungry,they
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Regime change
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Hamilton
So I saw this on Broadway before it became “a thing” 😍 and watched it on TV when it came out on that platform. Now it’s at the movie theatre and I’m so happy to see it (at least) one more time. 🎥🎭📽️💕
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The other side of the story
From my #1 daughter comes this. Pull quote: “ For too many political reporters, the way someone makes the argument – how nice they look, how erudite they sound, how polite they seem – has long taken precedent over the actual argument itself. Their rule of thumb seems to be that, as long as the tone is
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We are all safe, or none of us are.
From Ezra Klein comes this: “ Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended with bullets. I wanted Kirk
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Self-inflicted Loners
That’s a phrase that David Frum used in a conversation with Tim Miller that’s on my TV right now in describing the recent political violence shooters. The governor of Utah suggests people put down their devices and “touch grass”… The full quote: “I would encourage people to log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a
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Baby exercises
I’ve always had pretty poor upper body strength but thanks to my “Nanny” time with my youngest grandchild, I’m thinking that picking up this sweet child many times a day may be improving things. In fact, I’m deliberately lifting her up over my head a planned 25 times each day with her…go biceps! 💪
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Dead-end Path, but…