@lifsoned

Editor, dancer, yogi, and reformed rugger.

Joined August 2012
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Brazilian modernist multimedia artist Roberto Burle Marx was born #OTD in 1909. Burle Marx highlighted indigenous plants in his bold landscape designs & spoke out about deforestation. Read @TomCGardens on Burle Marx's celebration of botanical biodiversity: tinyurl.com/ycx3f9mr
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⁦My daughter was given this at school yesterday - dystopian fiction meet spelling exercise ⁦@EmilyMandel⁩
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"The writers in these circumstances—for the most part in the Donbas region—try to find the words for war." Steve Moyer situates the power of current Ukrainian poetry to name & bear witness to tragedy within a decades-long tradition. Read more here: tinyurl.com/yemd4wxw
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I appreciate this so much! Thank you.
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@BarackObama26 Jul 2022
I’ve read a couple of great books this year and wanted to share some of my favorites so far. What have you been reading this summer?
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"Astonished that they were now asked to develop the Navajo language to aid the war effort, the Navajo soldiers created the code in only a few months." @LauraTohe on the heroism of Navajo code talkers despite centuries of violent erasure & assimilation: tinyurl.com/42ks6rmu
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Thank you for all the warm tweets in my timeline today celebrating Sea of Tranquility’s UK publication day! I truly appreciate it.
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A new article to read from Humanities magazine! Supernatural America neh.gov/article/supernatural…
#Writer Willa Cather was born #OTD 1873 in Gore, VA. Cather’s time in the Arizona desert inspired key scenes in her 1915 novel, “The Song of the Lark.” Learn more in this @humanitiesmag article by @mathitak: bit.ly/3xHAyol
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"In time, the trio succeeded where newspaper reporters often failed: Making their way into the homes and lives of close-knit communities not known for letting their guard down.” Learn more from Rafael Alvarez: bit.ly/3BZnbk2
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“Within a few years, however, the French Revolution would also show that crowds could be dangerous, even to governments that claimed to represent the will of the people.” Jeremy Popkin explores crowds in the French Revolution here: bit.ly/3kkzFg9
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Explore the connections between Black capitalism and McDonald’s in this new interview with @DrMChatelain, author of @PulitzerPrizes winner “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America”: bit.ly/305x0Qj
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“... the garment’s purpose was to protect the wearer by concealing his or her identity...” @hstamler dives into Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit” in her @humanitiesmag debut: bit.ly/3mYM5Mv
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“Part of the legacy of the Negro leagues is that the variegated businesses and partnerships developed despite isolation from mainstream culture and the obstruction of economic and political gains.” Read more in Drew D. Brown & Thabiti Lewis’s new article: bit.ly/3F0Xemc
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Check out the Fall 2021 issue online now! This edition focuses on crowds, community, and more. neh.gov/issue/fall-2021
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My colleague Steve Shook is probably the coolest person I've known. Four Cool Prints That Commemorate a Slice of 1980s DC washingtonian.com/2021/10/11…

Four Cool Prints That Commemorate a Slice of 1980s DC - Washingtonian

If you lived in DC in the 1980s, a new collection of art prints by DC photographers Steve Shook and Michael Horsley may bring back some memories. Available on Shook’s website, the prints feature four...

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American revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards was born #OTD 1703. Marilynne Robinson looks at Edwards and the Great Awakening here: bit.ly/3ivalTU
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Read Canada’s new literary star Emily St. John Mandel now — you’ll thank me ⁦@HeatherMallick⁩ ⁦@EmilyMandel⁩ thestar.com/opinion/star-col…

Heather Mallick: Read Canada’s new literary star Emily St. John Mandel now — you’ll thank me

Emily St. John Mandel’s novels are redeeming CanLit. The book that will make her famous is “Station Eleven,” though I believe “The Glass Hotel” is her finest. She contains multitudes in an era where...

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So, I haven't been on a book tour, but I always invoke Emily St. John Mandel when I travel with my daughter to soccer tournaments and go through "The Long Dark Marriott of the Soul." With a nod to Douglas Adams, of course. neh.gov/humanities/2016/spri…

The Year of Numbered Rooms

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GET YOUR TICKETS!!!! – at Virginia, USA
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"with 1,153 studies published on it in 2020, mindfulness has been said to reduce stress, enhance emotional regulation, alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, addiction, chronic pain, eating disorders, increase attention span, improve immune system" 🙏 neh.gov/article/buddha-and-m…

Buddha and Mind

In Pānadurē in the British colony of Ceylon in 1871, a Buddhist monk and a Christian missionary debated each other in front of five thousand people over which religion was the more scientific.

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