Category: thought

Beatrix, age 15, is one of the performers in Choose Your Own Fringe Adventure as part of the 2023 Minnesota Fringe Festival. If you’re in the Twin Cities you should make the time to go see her. It’ll be fun!

Anna responds to the question of how to function in a crisis.

You are allowed to be human, you are allowed to have crises, and you are allowed to drop balls and function poorly, or not at all.

Perhaps we all need to optimize for delight.

Only Finding the Non-Obvious Matters – Garrick van Buren

Admittedly, as this story of the Vienna Beef company reminds us, we can be successful for a very long time without fully understanding our own non-obvious details.

That feeling when the women you’re with agree that, “You’re totally an Alan” and it’s one of the nicest compliments you’ve ever received.

Week 29 Notes: Public Service and Casual Cruelty | cygnoir.net

It’s clear to me that this level of outwardly-directed pain isn’t about masks or libraries at all, but rather the fear of powerlessness in a world that becomes less comprehensible by the second. But we’re right in front of them, so we’re the target.

Execupundit.com: An Old Neighborhood

They were there for one another. They were there to celebrate and boost one another. You had to coax them to brag.

A few years ago, a couple bought the nice little victorian cottage three doors down. The neighbor that owned it had passed away. The kids didn’t want it.

The couple promptly tore it down. They built a soulless modern house that sticks out like a sore thumb. The kitchen is in the front. The living room in the back. The curtain’s are drawn. The only light one ever sees is the flicker of the TV.

My wife and daughter call them “The Vampires”. 

“I’m singing this song for my sister Sinead

Concerning the god awful mess that she made

When she told them her truth just as hard as she could

Her message profoundly was misunderstood

There’s humans entrusted with guarding our gold

And humans in charge of the saving of souls

And humans responded all over the world

Condemning that bald headed brave little girl

And maybe she’s crazy and maybe she ain’t

But so was Picasso and so were the saints

And she’s never been partial to shackles or chains

She’s too old for breaking and too young to tame

It’s askin’ for trouble to stick out your neck

In terms of a target a big silhouette

But some candles flicker and some candles fade

And some burn as true as my sister Sinead

And maybe she’s crazy and maybe she ain’t

But so was Picasso and so were the saints

And she’s never been partial to shackles or chains

She’s too old for breaking and too young to tame”

— Kris Kristofferson, written in 1992 for Sinéad O’Connor when she was booed off the stage at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert.