Author: Mark R. Stoneman
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Photograph of a tree with vibrant blossoms.
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“An Austrian went to Radziwill and came right on to a peasant woman’s pitchfork,” Russian print by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, 1914β15, New York Public Library Digital Collections. The library has digitized five more prints in this series.
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Lithograph of crowds lining up to get their letters and newspapers at the post office on Pike and Clay Streets in San Francisco, California, ca. 1850. The news comes in another form too: conversation and rumors.
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My occasional pandemic nightmares used to scare me, but lately their pattern has become easy to recognize while sleeping. This change led me to a recording on YouTube of “The Thrill is Gone” by Roy Hawkins.
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Link to reflections by Emily Delaney on how we’re expecting way too much of our afternoon walks in this pandemic.
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Quotation: the Washington Post on the White House’s display of paralysis on January 6.
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Quotation: William Wan and Brittany Shammas on our imperviousness to horror when the latter is couched in statistics.
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Quotation: George P. Schultz on how fundamental trust is to good leadership. (I’ve experienced both the good and the bad, but I leave that alone.