sung by John Potter
for more or less the same words, see sheet music*
Bray, UK (!m)
*a link – see a note on notes and links
*a link – see a note on notes and links
*a link – see a note on notes and links
video credit: Mark Rober*
not as much fun, but a simpler solution: place the feeder on a support far enough from anywhere a squirrel can jump from to reach it in one leap, and surround the support up to the height of the base of the feeder with single sheets of glass – each too wide for a squirrel to reach across – held in place only at the top and bottom
also: side-by-side pieces of lumber could hold the sheets of glass in place and allow easy removal for cleaning
also: side-by-side pieces of lumber could hold the sheets of glass in place and allow easy removal for cleaning
on second thought, just enjoy the video
*a link – see a note on notes and links
Marilyn Sewell mentions in passing some quiet support on a bad day from people at the Cadillac Café*
recently – from the publisher’s blurb:
In In Time’s Shadow, minister, author, and activist Marilyn Sewell reflects on the everyday … Using a variety of short literary forms, ranging from dramatic monologues, vignettes, and letters, to prose poems, fantasy, and more, Sewell’s fiction offers insightful, compassionate slices of life that will bring laughter and, at the same time, take you deeper into the mysteries of life … We love, we lose, we die, and through it all, we ask, “What’s it all about?” Sewell invites us to ponder with her and perhaps come to trust our common humanity and our most noble instincts.*
a while ago – from elsewhere:
original:
“An awe-filled agnosticism is perhaps the better part of wisdom,” says Rev Dr Marilyn Sewell (!?) of when one is, as she puts it, “entering the ground of the infinite with the powers of a finite mind.”
original:
When we venture into the Mystery, we are entering the ground of the infinite with the powers of a finite mind. An awe-filled agnosticism is perhaps the better part of wisdom. (!?)
*a link – see a note on notes and links
Here is the referenced piece by John Updike commenting on The Umbrella Man of 1963 pic.twitter.com/0C298A2Thl
— @hamiltonmorris (@HamiltonMorris) June 3, 2020
Josiah Thompson: Six Seconds in Dallas (!?)*
see also “Bubbles in the Surface of Circumstance” in a book by another author:
*a link – see a note on notes and links
Senator Booker starts at 35 seconds
This is a truly extraordinary speech. I’ve never heard anything remotely like it from a politician. It’s long, but it’s well worth it. It captures, like nothing else I’ve heard, the experience of growing up black in America.
—John Naughton*
Lawrence Hamm – a Newark, New Jersey, elder and longtime activist now challenging Cory Booker for a seat in the United States Senate (!?) – led the singularly nonviolent protest in Newark last week and said this to the New York Times:
People have a right to be outraged. … I would even say that it is unhealthy for people to repress their strong emotions.*
*a link – see a note on notes and links
*a link – see a note on notes and links and see below for parts two through four of the four-part webinar
"It is a lynching at the highest level. No one can deny that," Dr. @CornelWest tells @andersoncooper of the death of George Floyd. "I thank God that we have people in the streets."
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 30, 2020
"Could you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people were indifferent?" he asks. pic.twitter.com/r8iSUjJ3db
One good way to work with the original* is to slowly move the pointer down a vertical line – say the 40-day mark – and light up the country curves on the way down.
*a link – see a note on notes and links