Nimrod

 

A Must Read

 At Cultural Offering.

Are you in the house or on the porch?

Love the Balance

 From todays' New York Times coverage of the French elections:

The party held on to its traditional strongholds along the Mediterranean coast and in the north of France and won a significant number of small cities in the far north and far south. But that would not be enough to triumph in a presidential election, said Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the Jean Jaurès Foundation, a left-leaning think tank based in Paris.

Back By Popular Demand

 

Erasing Cesar Chavez

Vanessa Mares is raising the question of whether the rapid erasure of Cesar Chavez is wise.

I would feel much better if more time was devoted for study and scrutiny and, yes, for hearing counterarguments.

Remember when people supported the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue by noting that it would be moved and not destroyed?

It was later melted down.

I wonder if many of those who oppose the historical symbols want to remove them all. 

There will soon be, no doubt, a similar move against Martin Luther King, Jr.

Are statues to be reserved for saints?

Find Something Beautiful Today

[Photo by Brad Weaver at Unsplash]

Weird Books for Great Escapes

I have assembled an unusual list at Substack.

Participatory Journalist

 

Practical and Important

Ask someone to memorize ten random facts; they quickly forget them. Ask them to remember a story with those same facts, and retention rises sharply; the human brain evolved to think in cause-and-effect narratives, not isolated data points.

- From How to Be a Storyteller by Nicholas Bate 

[Note; This book just came out. I wish I'd learned its key lessons long ago. They would have made a positive difference in how I studied while in school.]

The Good Old Days