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Jess of the Shire made a video about sir Gawain and the green knight. She also talked about a pretty weird but creative film adaptation that came out a few years ago. The big point is that all stories are basically adaptations of what stories that came before and what we think of now as…
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In 1998, Emily Slatin embarked on a journey that simply wasn’t considered an option before the turn of the twenty-first century. Plenty of people started websites back then, but often only in the hopes of making a quick buck. So, to say she was ahead of her time was an understatement. As a long-time photographer…
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From the moleskine: Maria of the YouTube channel Strange Lucidity made a video about the book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. People haven’t actually stopped reading; it’s just we’re reading more on screens than from books. And our brains read them differently. Really important point. From that book, Hari says: “The more novels you read,…
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“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.” – John Stuart Mill I had…
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In Vermont, we have a lot of crows here in particular, although we get chickadees, blue jays, and all kinds of other little songbirds. When I was talking to Gemini about the wildlife here on our farm, she spat out the term, Pastoral Realism. I love that phrase. I’m actually kind of a shut-in during…
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When I found out that Sabrina Carpenter is both starring in and producing a new Alice in Wonderland movie, I immediately was thinking this film may outperform even Wicked at the box office. My thinking is that, as amazing as Ariana Grande is, Sabrina is at such crazy heights of fame at the moment AND…
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I have a lot of thoughts, not bad ones. It has to do with a lot of things I’ve been noticing. So, the big thing that’s been on my mind is this cultural regression that seems to be becoming pandemic. I’ve written tons about how I have a complicated, mostly unhealthy relationship with nostalgia that…
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For some reason I never mentioned this in the past couple days, but the Cambridge dictionary Word of the Year is “parasocial.” And it makes sense. Everyone to some degree is being affected by serious parasocial behavior, whether directly or indirectly. The worst part is, it’s not just celebrities anymore. It’s online personalities, streamers, YouTubers,…
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A monument of great beautyHolds forever trueImmortalized in the snapshotOf your sweet face Like cruel Fate you came to meFrom the deep blueWith love so deep, I got lost inYour strong embrace Suddenly, you up and left meIn a daze lostIn this empty place, all this timeWhat came of you? (Written 4/30/07 / Revised 6/11/18)
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Where the sky meets the waterThat is where I want to beOr is it where the water meets the sky?The greatest firmament that ever was I wish to reach for the endless horizonThe great infinity, the indescribable beautyTo reach farther, to dream further, to stretchMy imagination to the highest firmament I long to dream of…