Smiled to see book from «The Weird Coffee» chap #JamesHoffmann on shelf of local coffee shop & for their barista to be oblivious to James being in #Dubai this weekend…

note: event organised by #BrewingGadgets UAE with showcase of coffee roasting tech by #Bellwether
https://brewinggadgets.com/products/an-evening-with-james-hoffmann-powered-by-bellwether

Alas, I cannot attend tonight’s event where “The Hoff” is speaking - owing to an existing wedding commitment!

AED 500 seat fee is hefty, yet perceive ample historic value from JH’s shared coffee learning!

Not a Monsoon, but it gave me an idea of one.

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RAIN'S REIN

Leaves descending in Monsoon-like rains
Bellwether of the coming frost
Like salmon I walk upstream
And smile brightly as I
Wave the geese farewell
A rehearsal
For coming
Winter
Days

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#DailyPictureTheme #Monsoon
#vss365 #bellwether
#BlueSkyRelay #frost
DailyHaikuPrompt (tho no haiku) salmon / geese
#WritingCommunity #poetry #nonet
#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography

@vss365 @writingcommunity @poetry @photography

#Bellwether issues. I have no #political home - if I did, I would evaluate my political theory through loyalty to the programme. That's what I used to do.

Instead of that, I pick bellwether issues to judge my political relationship to other people and orgs. There are many to choose from, here are some of mine:

* #Migrants. My current main bellwether.
* #LGBTQI+. Used to be my gold standard issue, and is still very high up there.
* #Equality. Subsumes many other more specific items such as #women, #BIPOC, #billionaires, so break it down if you like.
* #Privacy.
* #Ukraine.

This is a mechanism to simplify things for myself. Point being, I can develop an internal detection system for figuring out how likely I will be allies with or enemies of another person or org, I just look for clues related to the bellwether. Easy.

A quotation from McLuhan, Marshall:

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I think of Art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system, that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/mcluhan-marshall/63771/

#quote #quotes #quotation #art #bellwether #change #culture #warning