Tag: bookmarks

  • Do What Only You Can Do

    Do What Only You Can Do

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    On New Year’s Day, 2024, I’m haunted by an epiphany I had in 2015 – that I should do more of what only I can do, and less of what anyone can do. Not that what I can do is better. It’s just better for me. At the time, I was trying to break the…

  • Art: Banksy, Beautyist, Bob Dylan, and Brooklyn

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    Dave
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    This week, my evening scribbles thread of bundled bookmarks (you can tell I’m still figuring out what to call these) is focused on art. In tough times, I’ve said to my family, “We’ve got to write our way out of this.” Whether writing privately to someone or in journals or publicly in blogs or “real”…

  • Restoration: Statues, Buildings, and Brains

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    Dave
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    On a family Zoom last week, I found myself blurting “When the pandemic is over, everyone will forget what it was like, what we all went through. They’ll just ask, ‘Well, what have you accomplished in the last years?’” I was speaking about professional, educational, or artistic accomplishments. I had a hunch that the kind…

  • Sounds of the City and a Barbaric Yawp

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    Dave
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    Today I’m threading some sounds that have reached me recently. It started with birds, what sounded like a hundred tiny beaks chirping as fast as they could on my window sill, about an hour before I needed to wake up. Under the lead of an assertive, entrepreneurial leader, they discovered warm air leaking from the…

  • Time Management and 12022021

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    Dave
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    Today I’m threading time. (That is, I’m realizing as I write this that these things can be connected.) First, I saw Catherine Clifford’s piece on CNBC.com: “Why billionaire VC Marc Andreessen schedules every second of his day, including ‘critical’ free time.” Since the 90s, I’ve known Marc Andreessen is one of the smartest people in…

  • Garry Wills and the Definition of Saint: Studs Terkel

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    Dave
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    Garry Wills has a great definition of “saint” in The New York Review of Books (June 7, 2018), in “The Art of the Schmooze,” a tribute to Studs Terkel: “I considered him a saint, by the only definition that makes sense to me: a man or woman whose company you leave feeling that you should…

  • Eavesdropping on Jeffrey Brown and James Corner

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    Dave
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    Thrilled to eavesdrop on Jeffrey Brown’s PBS NewsHour interview with genius James Corner of Field Operations, at the High Line in NYC. I was too shy to ask for a selfie, but I snagged a few snaps.

  • Music Break: Des Ark

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    Dave
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    Don't Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker by Des Ark Music break: From a 2011 release by Des Ark, an intriguingly lush, raw, dissonant, harmonious, humorous, ferocious band from North Carolina.