Column One: How does COVID-19 change the brain? This scientist is finding out - Los Angeles Times
Currently reading: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚I did love it, to the point of slowing down in order to make it last longer. I was saddened by the end, which seemed hopeless as we are all consigned to a word of violence and inequality. Still thinking about it, though.
Currently reading: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 (The Best American Series ®) edited by Ed Jong 📚
Thinking about whether to use Miro to replace my use of Trello and even some of my use of Google Docs in my online Agile Project Management course. Initial verdict is no for icebreaker type activities and maybe as my replacement for Trello.
Art from my mother’s home, reflecting her dining/living room. This was my home away from home, until she died in 2019.
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Red
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My ancient but beloved cycle
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I found this song after I fell into indigenous TikTok and now I can’t hear it enough 🎵
35 by Rob Ruha and Ka Hoa
I am so loving Monterey on my iMac. I made my cursor turquoise and pink and big, and my accent color purple, and these things make me happy every minute of the day. Unfortunately, it’s hard to screenshot the cursor but here’s how I did it.
Nice, wet, fertile, rotting, humus underneath this Stinkhorn mushroom
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Chaos
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This is a rerun but here’s my bliss spot
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Loving the new album by Cassandra Jenkins 🎵
Apple Music Link: An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Opinion | Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicine - The New York Times
Gravity in action
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Currently reading: Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚
Today I was able to sing outdoors with 4 friends. We all love to sing Shape Note songs and we felt connection with our 5 voices singing 4-part harmony and these old, strange songs. 📷
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I am mostly recovered from my Shingles vaccine side effects 24 hours later. Thanks to the many who shared their stories of either the vaccine or Shingles (Hellfire!) itself.
Finished reading: Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff 📚I loved this book. Very different from her other novels. Semi-historical fiction about an abbess in the 12th century. Beautiful, lyrical, and tied to the present day in many subtle ways.
Quit reading: Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé 📚While I liked the characters, the writing and the setting (DC in 1977 when I was in high school there), there was far too much child abuse so I had to quit at about half-way through.
Currently reading: Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff 📚
This mural has meaning to me, my high school mascot. I went to my 40th reunion a few years ago.
Had my first Shingles vaccine yesterday. Side effects are brutal for me! Fainted this morning, deep waves of nausea. It’s getting better but a nasty headache lingers. But it’s worth it to be protected from that painful illness.
I’m totally cheating by posting old photos. When in doubt, use a cat picture! Here’s Tamsin kitty from 2018, not resting yet but on the bed.
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