Venn Diagram: NatSec, tech, innovation, culture. Working on mindfulness / self-awareness. Suddenly Midwest. Bad at bird noise-ing. Mostly on LinkedIn.
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25 Jul 2023
“Celts were innovators, but the Romans were nation builders.”
- Mark Kurlansky, “Salt: A World History”
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goodreads.com/book/show/2715
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2 Jul 2023
“Words with double c’s are troublemakers; words with double c’s and double m’s are invitations to catastrophe.”
— @BCDreyer, “Dreyer’s English” (p. 131) 📖
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25 Jun 2023
📣🐓 Morning reflection:
@BCDreyer’s commentary on dangling participles in #DreyersEnglish is legen…(wait for it)…dary.
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24 Jun 2023
Prigozhin went north
Shot down some helicopters
Guess that's all fine now
(It's a... hai-coup)
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25 Jun 2023
Me: “Are you *sure* we ate this same meal on our honeymoon? Doesn’t seem familiar…”
Also Me: “Five-letter word meaning ‘public hatred’? Yeah, that’ll be ‘o-d-i-u-m,’ I bet.”
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24 Jun 2023
“I was a poet, but I was away for a while from the loom of thought and formal language; I was playing.
I was whimsical, absorbed, happy.
✨ Let me always be who I am, and then some.” ✨
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Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 164) 📖
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24 Jun 2023
“When I came to a teachable age, I was, as most youngsters are, directed toward the acquisition of knowledge, meaning not so much ideas but demonstrated facts. Education as I knew it was made up of such a preestablished collection of certainties.” (1/2)
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24 Jun 2023
“Knowledse has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions.“ (2/2) — Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 153) 📖
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18 Jun 2023
“The detail, the pace, the elaborations are both necessary and augmentative; this is a long poem and it is not an argument but a thousand examples, a thousand taps and twirls on Whitman’s primary statement.” (1/2) 📖
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18 Jun 2023
“Brevity would have made the whole thing ineffectual, for what Whitman is after is felt experience. Experience only, he understands, is the successful persuader.”
— Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 98-99) 📖
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17 Jun 2023
🍋 Lemony Snicket Negroni 🥃
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• 3 Malfy Limon Gin
• 3 Dolin Blanc / white vermouth (not dry)
• 2 Salers Aperitif
• 1 Cointreau / clear orange liqueur
• 1 St. Germaine / Elderflower liqueur
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This is a parts ratio (3:3:2:1:1); in ounces, it is… WAY more than one drink. 😅
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17 Jun 2023
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us. This is Poe’s real story. As it is ours.”
— Mary Oliver, “Upstream” (p. 91) 📖
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9 Jun 2023
Aren’t you sometimes a bit curious about what you might be missing right beneath your nose? ✨👃✨ This is a topic of great interest to me.
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27 May 2023
Things fall apart - regardless of how that may be experienced, #entropy isn’t up for debate. In some ways, that’s kind-of reassuring, isn’t it?
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22 May 2023
Don’t be a Marathon Mumblebird. (James Boren, 1975)
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11 May 2023
“A Powerful Lesson” @RJH_397 👍🏻
🧵 1/6. This is a powerful lesson…
A high school class is learning about the Salem Witch Trials. Their teacher told them they were going to play a game.
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13 May 2023
Hot Take: “Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes” was just a cleverly-disguised set of morning calisthenics designed to prevent teachers from tweaking their backs and taking PTO. “Get your wiggles out” indeed!
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