April 7, 2020
Gleanings
- how to make a log cabin while sheltering in place
- The exceptional does not faze us.
- “Gentle,” I told myself as I worked. As, I recognized, I have been telling myself for several weeks.
- the thing has to be read to be appreciated, otherwise I could as easily say frogs, bulrushes, English sparrow, landscape, polar ice, sunlight, rain, thunder, a gravel path, the egg cases of a praying mantis, the thin membrane of an onion, that sort of thing.
- I believe this is how we will all build the future of journalism: person by person, reporter by reporter, opportunity by opportunity, story by story.
- Is it possible to think of the time right now in some ways as holy or sacred? Where can we locate our “collective effervescence?”
- It would be easy to feel hopeless.
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Given the times, given that we are keeping our distance, given that more people than ever are strolling along my usual routes by the river and other green spots in the city, I’ve been tromping along backstreets, down alleys, through what others might call the uglier parts of town.
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