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Notes from the Road crushes Patrick Moore's claims about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from Chapter 6 of his book, highlighting scientific evidence and environmental impacts of oceanic plastic pollution.

A thought or two about the time I have left on this mortal coil and what I'll do with it

🙈🙊🙉 猴子🐒也能教做人，若您可參透，便得道了。 善哉，善哉。 三界 四洲 Three Realms, Four Continents 無所求 不可救 Seek Nothing, Beyond Redemption 長夜 今朝 Long Nights, Present Days 是非 黑白 Right and Wrong; Black and White 顛倒…

Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you’ve missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon!…

This Junto Profile is part of an ongoing series of short Q&As that provide some background on various individuals who participate regularly in the online Disquiet Junto music community. What’s…

The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the…

  ========== To enlarge, click on it while typing COMMAND +. Tech tip from a master. I'm as pro-Sierra Club as the next guy; I HAVE been but am not…

One of the last decisions of the short-lived Barnier Government (following the catastrophic decision of Emmanuel Macron calling last June for mid-term elections and resulting in a three body problem!)…

Michael Schlesinger, film distributor, archivist, and an important figure in the classic film community, died yesterday, January 9 2025. The cause was thymic squamous cell carcinoma. Michael Schlesinger was born…

Looking at the birds at the feeder out my studio window always inspires me this time of year. When Karen, who is a quilter, sent me a bag of scraps…

"See what a comma can do?" ~ Diane SeussIf I write about the pastas I often (I always) do,whether or not I intend a narrative, narrative is inferred, and in…

To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale about a mathematical request of my Lord's to him, which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ…

Is this a good idea? Saturday Night Live has announced that Timothée Chalamet will be the musical guest and perform as Bob Dylan, who he plays in “A Complete Unknown,”…

A California blogger just emailed me from a California Red Cross Center. She and her husband and daughters are sleeping on mattresses on the floor. She said nothing was left…

Summary: Returning home I saw and composed some #poetry to the glorious sunset framing a grove of trees. While driving home, I saw a grove of trees whose head was…

Today’s newsletter begins: Raymond Carver liked to quote Isak Dinesen, who said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. “Someday,” he wrote, “I’ll put that…

I paged through this illustrated retrospective of Hayao Miyazaki’s work at the bookstore a few months ago and it was gorgeous. “The book is artistic biography, aesthetic treatise, creative process…

I’ve noticed some erratic behavior with the Spotify for Creators app lately. Every morning, over coffee, I read through the comments on the app and reply when appropriate. However, I…

I grew up with parents that owned their own struggling small business. Throughout my childhood, we had pretty much zero healthcare until I got to college. I went to the…

It’s the beginning of January, and usually at this point people’s resolutions are starting to unravel. For years I used to do yearly goals but over 2024 I moved to…