Day 4705: Thoughts and Books & Did You Know & Extra Smiles.

"Airstrike": junk collage, ink, digital.

    

  

Want music?

    Click: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Green Shower.

 

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On Fridays, Austin Kleon sends me an e-mail with "10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:" I am a free subscriber, put there is a paid version, but the Friday free is great for me.

He has a great sense of humor and a similar outlook on life, so it is always a good read. He and his family live in Texas, so he speaks of that in #1 & 2. Today's music also comes from Austin. I am going to share two (3&4) of the 10 things because they resonated with me.

“The assault of noise and unsolicited messages on people’s souls seems to me to create an environment of violence quite akin to how aggression and war hurt innocent bystanders, those poor non-combatants caught in fights not of their own making.” That’s not Tolstoy, that’s Ursula Franklin, a feminist, Quaker, and pacifist writer whose books The Real World of Technology and The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map mean a great deal to me. (One of her favorite teachings of mine: “Silence is a space for something to happen.”) "We have nothing that interesting to say,” writes Audrey Watters on using AI to write, “because we have nothing interesting to think about because we have read nothing substantive.” After I read that, the algorithm served me an awful clip of a TED Talk by the CEO of an AI company who claims that “your grandchildren will be the last generation to read and write,” and not long after that, I found myself on an airplane in a window seat, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s “Green Shower” playing on a loop in my headphones, the clouds flying past my window while I read Tolstoy. I felt so damned happy, in that moment, to be a reader."

Now to me, that's scary! I can't imagine not being able to read or write.

Netherlans Libraries charging stations.

I love libraries, and books of all kinds. I am currently finishing reading the 320 page book that I thought I would love. I used to intern at the tallest building in LA, which is across the street from the beautiful LA Central Library, so I thought I would like it. I di, but I wouldn't give it to anyone unless they like a lo, TMI I thought, but the writer, Susan Orlean is a journalist. I guess I liked it. I tend to like books that set in a familiar locale. This book seemed more of a reference, than a story.

  

  

 

  

A 4+ minute video, A toda marcha, here

 

  

 

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