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![]() ![]() Limón grew up in Sonoma, California, and studied drama at the University of Washington until a teacher urged her to apply to grad school for poetry. She previously received a 2020 Guggenheim fellowship, and her collections have garnered numerous accolades: The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, and her sixth book, The Hurting Kind, was widely praised when it came out earlier this year. “Again and again, I have been witness to poetry’s immense power to reconnect us to the world, to allow us to heal, to love, to grieve, to remind us of the full spectrum of human emotion,” Limón said in response to her appointment by the Library of Congress-the highest honor in her field. And no one is better positioned to provide it than new Poet Laureate of the United States Ada Limón (GSAS ’01). These disquieting times call for a little poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those are the types of thoughts that should fall on deaf ears. The remarks that do not serve the higher purpose of advancing the argument, but rather attack the person and are derogatory or unkind in nature. The remarks that are not backed by thought, but are rather reactive, emotional, and are lacking of reason or fact. We choose to be a little deaf towards the thoughtless and unkind types of remarks. And I, nor RBG, mean this in a demeaning, belittling, dismissive way for the other person. In every relationship in life, I think it helps to be a little deaf. ![]() Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words Beyond the Quote (260/365) When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court of the United States. ‘In every good marriage,’ she counseled, ‘it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.’ I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through fifty-six years of a marital partnership nonpareil. ![]() ![]() It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “Another often-asked question when I speak in public: ‘Do you have some good advice you might share with us?‘ Yes, I do. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami Beach, Florida. Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. Award-winning author Jean Marzollo was the author of over 100 books, including the bestselling I Spy series Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20 Help Me Learn Addition Help Me Learn Subtraction Pierre the Penguin Soccer Sam Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King The Little Plant Doctor In 1776 Mama Mama/Papa Papa and I Am Water as well as books for parents and teachers, such as The New Kindergarten. ![]() ![]() ![]() He does such a wonderful job with conveying emotion and highlighting the atmosphere. Falk grew on me though as the story went on.Īs for the audio format, I adored hearing Stephen’s narration. Admittedly, he is back in a town that views him as a pariah but I suppose I expected him to hold his head high rather than perpetually be on the verge of fleeing back to Melbourne. ![]() I really enjoyed that creative choice.Īaron Falk, our protagonist, was a complicated character that seemed to have very little presence in the beginning. ![]() I found Harper’s choice to keep the present day POV with Falk but still provided other perspectives in the flashbacks that shaped the Ellie Deacon mystery quite clever. The mystery surrounding the Hadlers’ deaths as well as the Deacon case kept me guessing and tense. I could feel the despair and helplessness that invades everyday life for the residents of Kiewarra as they fight to survive. The Dry is a stunning debut novel sporting the same depth and complexity that we have come to expect from heavy hitter mystery/thriller writers. It truly brings Australia and the characters alive for me. I may have had a fangirl moment when I discovered Stephen Shanahan narrated those books as well. I really enjoyed my time “in the outback” and decided I wanted to circle back and read Harper’s Aaron Falk series that had received so much praise from readers. I recently had the opportunity to listen and review Jane Harper’s The Lost Man after the publisher sent a review audio copy. ![]() ![]() She was a member of the Municipal Art Society’s Board of Directors. ![]() 5įollowing the death of her second husband in 1975, Jacqueline Onassis lived and worked in New York City. ![]() In 1968, she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, but continued to live part-time in New York. Kennedy in 1963, Jacqueline moved to New York City with her children and began a new life. This project sparked Jacqueline Kennedy’s interest in historic preservation, which she remained dedicated to for the rest of her life.įollowing the assassination of John F. 4 While managing the restoration of the White House, she educated millions of Americans about historic preservation through an hour-long television program on CBS. 3 In her position as First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy “built her historic preservation legacy” through her restoration of the White House. With the presidential election of 1960, Jacqueline Kennedy became the First Lady of the United States. In 1952, Jacqueline met and began dating John F. During her time at the latter institution, Jacqueline Bouvier began her life in Washington, D.C. 1 She was educated at Vassar College and George Washington University. ![]() She lived a privileged childhood, growing up in both East Hampton and Manhattan. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born on Jin East Hampton, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The last speakers are Agathon and Socrates. I don’t know whether it is to this story that we owe the popular idea of a soulmate, or whether Plato was drawing on already existing ideas, but it’s certainly a vivid story (and interesting that the unions explicitly include male-male and female-female, as well as male-female). A number of fanciful speeches are given, the most interesting of which is that by Aristophanes, which suggests that ancient humans had two heads, eight limbs, and two sets of genitals Zeus cut these ancient humans in half, but with luck we sometimes find our other half and become whole again. Those present agree to have a competition in which each will give a speech praising the god Eros (love). It features Socrates attending a symposium (banquet with feasting and drinking) to honour the poet Agathon. ![]() The Symposium is the longer of the two works here. The Symposium (occasionally translated as ‘The Banquet’) This inexpensive collection includes two of his middle period dialogues concerning themes of love and beauty. Anyone who knows anything about Philosophy will surely have heard of Plato. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture-in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values-combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. As he traces the refrigerant's life span from its invention in the 1920s-when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress-to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. ![]() In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. ![]() "Interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would say it was useful but in a limited way. I helps to know what tricks they use in order to be a jump ahead of them if any should try such tricks against us. It certainly highlights the vulnerability and gullibility of 'the public' that is exploited in a scurrilous manner by so much of the commercial and corporate world. However when I skipped to parts that I was interested in, the topics were quite enlightening. over-stating the point or topic being covered, indicating to me that it was written with rather too much 'padding'. I had to skimp through bits that got me bogged-down in topics that were a. ![]() Much of it applies more to American marketing psychology which is very different from that of the UK. The book took a lot of effort to get through. ![]() ![]() "Comedy, four female roles, six male roles, four acts, landscape (view of a lake) much talk of literature, little action, five pounds of love" (from A. Passion, revenge, romantic impulses and adultery, dreams of glory and the desire for self-destruction - The Seagull, written in1895 has never been so modern. ![]() "How nervous everyone is! And how much love."Ī famous actress, a young actress, a fashionable novelist, a controversial playwright, a prosaic teacher, and one who is always in black, meet in a country house and philosophize about art, boredom, and the meaning of life.Īll, of course, are in love with those who do not reciprocate. A vast, emotive masterpiece with music in its words, The Seagull demands one of the tightest acting ensembles in. Chyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ![]() |