gotta find a new place where the kids are hip
“Till We Reach That Day” Original Broadway Cast of Ragtime
As a teenager I’d spend hours every night singing Broadway. Hours. For years. I am doing this right now. I’m 26 next month. #dork
This article changed my life. I first read it in The New Kings of Nonfiction, edited by Ira Glass, when I moved to New York. I didn’t know anyone, and didn’t know that my tried and true methods of meeting people in college — join lots of things, don’t be afraid to invite people before they invite you — would translate in the real world. This article basically said that works in real life too. I quote this like it’s a doctrine. It might help you out.She’s a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you’ve never heard of her. Does she run the world? Everyone who knows Lois Weisberg has a story about meeting Lois Weisberg, and although she has done thousands of things in her life and met thousands of people, all the stories are pretty much the same.
Whenever I read histories of World War II or of countries with great political disruption (the Burundian or Cambodian genocide; the French Revolution), the most unnerving thing is how material wealth doesn’t really do a lot for you. If you want your wealth to mean something, you have four options: 1) Lie, and tell the invading army you’re on their side, throw them parties, and let them think they have a chance with your daughters. 2) Get a bank account in Nauru or Switzerland. 3) Make sure your money is in gold or jewelry or lots of guns. 4) Get out early.
I keep thinking about our gardeners in San Diego who had been surgeons in Vietnam, but during the war escaped to sunny San Diego to operate with weedwackers.
Then there was a tall, tired, rough and tumble looking man in an old coat I met at an Amnesty International meeting here in Brooklyn. He introduced himself as a dockworker from Turkmenistan. After a few meetings, I learned that he had actually been a political science and history professor over there. We bonded over our love of history.
All this to say, they should teach refugee skills in school.
“The main idea is to use different objects to focus one’s attention, and it could be a focus on sensations of breathing, or emotions or thoughts, or observing any type of body sensations,” she said. “But it’s about bringing the mind back to the here and now, as opposed to letting the mind drift.”
Go kids, go. Am I even this brave?
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Be nice to your kids, yo.
GOOD SONG.OK KIDS! HERE IT IS! It’s the title track from my upcoming EP, Mechanical Circles (FEATURING CHRIS AYER). I wanted to give you, YOU! Really, just you, the chance NAY the privilege to hear it before my EP Officially goes on sale Jan 31! So hear (see what I did there?) ya go!
(from a history on the provocative Barney — who was an American-French lesbian feminist and writer — called Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez .)
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
