What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
Playing Through
Almost everything I write, I “write” in the notebook of the mind, with the foot in motion — what happens at the keyboard upon returning from the long daily walks that sustain me is mostly the work of transcription.
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Childhood is one great brush-stroke of loneliness, thick and pastel-colored, its edges blurring out into the whole landscape of life. In this blur of being by ourselves, we learn to be ourselves.
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Developer Simon B. Støvring has published an informative article on his blog that walks you through the process of moving your data from 1Password to iCloud Keychain (via SixColors). He had roughly 300 usernames and passwords to move and he didn’t want to do that by hand.
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Long before there was Yo-Yo Ma, there was Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor Pablo Casals (December 29, 1876–October 22, 1973), regarded by many as the greatest cellist of all time. The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.N.
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is a sweeping, delicately interleaved, uncondensable read in its entirety.
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I know only three side-doors to the cathedral of consciousness, through which we can bypass the bewildered mind to enter the heart of the most unfathomable, shattering, and universal human experiences, emerging a little more whole: poetry, children’s books, and Bach.
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In recent seasons of being, I have had occasion to reflect on the utterly improbable trajectory of my life, plotted not by planning but by living.
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“Not cool, University of Manchester. Not cool.” This was how Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, responded to a 2018 story about a student union that had “banned” applause at its events.
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The Smithsonian gave credit to its director, Samuel Pierpont Langley, whose plane crashed into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff. The Wrights were not pleased.
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The story told by the Ruthwell Cross, a monument sitting outside what may have been either a small church or monastery in what’s now Scotland, far from any center of power, incorporates men, women, and children, merchants from far away, peasants, and kings.
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