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Watch this. And share this.

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Today I remember Neil Davison who died during a doomed WWII mission to bomb oil fields in Romania that fueled Axis assaults. My dad described his envy as a young boy watching Neil enlist at 19 and return home in uniform.

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Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. It is a great failure that we still wonder at the seemingly illogical functions of authoritarian rule when she laid out its structures and affects so clearly. Here she is on cynicism, lies and propaganda, a history of today.

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The Wood Thrush "This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning." - Thoreau #bird #nature #woodthrush #thoreau #canonEOSMark52

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Edward Hopper landscape gem at Munson in Utica, NY.

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Do this today, please!

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In a noisy world why not create more spaces where we can read, doodle, hear ourselves think.

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Central Park is a masterpiece.

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Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪

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Lines too long at The Frick. Bees can come and go as they wish.

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#7 challenging.

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Music of birds, bike bells, saxophone, children’s voices during a walk through Central Park clears the gourd.

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“Nikolai Petrovich hung his head and passed his hand over his face. ‘But rejecting poetry?’ he thought once more. ‘Feeling nothing for art or nature?’ And he looked about him, as if trying to understand how one could have no feeling for nature.” - from Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev

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Coincidence?

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Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic—there are sun, bugs, and heat, Emma Sarappo writes. But with the right book it can be sublime:

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This Mother’s Day I cannot stop thinking of the mother kidnapped yesterday in Worcester as her beautiful daughter, with the fire of my own daughters, sought to defend her.

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With “Pavements,” the director Alex Ross Perry’s desire isn’t to investigate or to plumb hidden depths but to celebrate the band Pavement—“and to do so in a way that exalts its own self-deprecating mode of anti-stardom,” Richard Brody writes.

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Rainy day music. music.apple.com/us/album/her...

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Attempt #6

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Derelict (The Lost Boat), Arthur Wesley Dow, Ipswich, MA. Color woodcut print.

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I'm so excited to launch a brand new version of the So You Want to Work in Climate sheet! This is a crowdsourced collection of 500+ resources for people who want to work in climate. nicolekelner.notion.site/So-You-Want-...

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I read this timely book out loud to my Dad.

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Attempt #5. Do not put cup of tea too close to jar with water for paint brushes.

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Recommended read for sporting types. Not just about tennis.

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Local farm using mulched leaves early spring to insulate, retain moisture, deter weeds. Yes!

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I just sold my parents’ house. The view from what was once my bedroom.

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“Did you know clouds are heavy? I only recently learned just how heavy: A typical cumulus weighs roughly 550 tons, or 1.1 million pounds. Yet they float in and out of our lives like wispy nothings. Or like other lives.” — from Elisa Gabbert On Poetry in the NYT.

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