pearl-y-o

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a’bra c’dabra — i create as i speak
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Mind-blown. Just found out that my closest famous person relative may actually be Kevin Bacon.

Yes, that Kevin Bacon: the potential center of the universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon#:~:text=The%20computation%20of%20a%20Bacon,a%20Bacon%20number%20of%201.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia

"Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other’s difference with respect."

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revolution is not a one time event

... "Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown respon...

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"It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray."
"Nope."
"Pardon?"
"There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."

--from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.

war against clichés

Without knowing this writer's work at all, I saved a newspaper snippet for many years which not only sums up the task of a writer, but what I realize are cen...

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superlative Sunday Scaries

I've never been one to suffer from the "Sunday Scaries." This is likely because I have tried to live as in alignment with my values as possible and thus had ...

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

- Isaac Asimov

what is a muse?

It's often hard to pinpoint the moment that hunches and intuitions cross the threshold into the realm of being confirmed. Particularly huge terms like "white...

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All photographs are memento mori

After watching the starkly brutal new documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, Susan Sontag's words about the de/sensitizing power of film return to my mind. "All ph...

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AI is inventive if not intelligent

This gave me a lot of joy today. Amidst my current obsession with all things Emily & my desire to become a part-time recluse to escape from this damn job (12...

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'soul of fire in a shell of pearl'

Emily Dickinson: A Eulogy by Susan Huntington Dickinson text pub. in "The Springfield Republican," May 18, 1886 The death of Miss Emily E. Dickinson, daughte...

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