Fight fear with data. Fight anger with gratitude. Every day do something that won’t compute.
Boston's around here somewhere
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My town (Arlington, MA) has been giving all students free lunch and breakfast, regardless of demonstrated need, since the beginning of the pandemic.
Many of us assumed that was just happening everywhere in MA, if not the whole US, which is not true. Is there a good list?
Came home from work in March 2020, laid my badge down in its spot on the radiator next to wallet and sunglasses. It sat untouched until just now, resuming a habit and rhythm lost, like a mix tape that's been waiting since 1987 to play the second half of a forgotten favorite song.
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so i didn't plan on writing this at any point in my life, but here is a thread about toilets in the library of babel.
there is an interesting (intentional?) set of voids and paradoxes in "The Library of Babel" related to metabolism.
latrines or bathrooms are mentioned:
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Every plan, in order to have a decent chance at being accomplished, needs 5 things:
1 Positive definition of success
2 Owner
3 Timeline
4 Budget
5 Next physical action
Without any of these, it's not a plan, it's a wish. Wishes sometimes come true! But plans are more reliable.
I'd like to suggest that the phrasing "both sides" as a placeholder for "all opinions" is at best as laughable as youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK…, and at worst smuggles in all kinds of harmful assumptions.
Something I'm learning, with some pain: there are few things more important, or harder, than growing up as fast as I must to be the person that can hold up the growing people around me. It's a race; on my best days, an exhilarating one.
Reading War and Peace as one of my first eBooks on playgrounds while raising my first two toddlers has embedded itself in my brain.
