Jill Lepore: US: We’re in Free Fall

https://youtu.be/LBpPNvVLVmc?is=MB506Sj2vjr_1a1T

 

Just bought these two books at my favorite bookstore, Three Lives. 

Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers/ The New Yorker Radio Hour

https://youtu.be/c7jLvtmqW1I?is=90hYhmK619NOHr_3

 

Malcolm Gladwell ran by me and my sign this morning. He looked out of the corner of his eye as he went by. Most runners don’t look at all. 

 

Two riders reading books this morning on the train back from me holding the sign. 

What comes after the end of Reading?

https://youtu.be/uUIw704kvG8?is=OznA5mUC6VIs6LPC

 

I watched ‘A Complete Unknown’ again last night. Do, if you haven’t. Here is a documentary on the film.

https://youtu.be/4EZgOS34UoU?is=lraompONmaq5HmpU

Train across the platform. I take it sometimes after I hold the sign. It’s usually not that crowded. My sign gets in the way though. I take a slower local train home. No hurry. 

From where I was sitting in my neighborhood library, yesterday, two blocks away.

 

https://youtu.be/diXSvr69yfk?is=dOYGvMxK2GqT-92g

The late John Stewart on the Smothers Brothers a long time ago. Sings a song, with others, that very much matters now.

I eat quite a lot of plain yogurt. This is my new favorite. It has a fresh tastiness.

 

CARLY SIMON REVEALS PARKINSON’S DISEASE DIAGNOSIS: ‘I AM STILL VERY MUCH HERE’

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/carly-simon-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis-skin-cancer-1236303188/

On my exercise walk I pass the Quaker Meeting House. 

I’ve only read 50 pages. I just got started. There are 400-some pages. So far it’s very good. Better than you’d think. Get it. 

 

IS THE AGE OF READING OVER?

Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”

https://apple.news/A2pH7di6iRgGspR2nOoPpNA

 Aging. My 79-year-old hand the other day.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Her Mission to Put Challenged Books Directly Into the Hands of Children in Iowa

https://apple.news/AZOMJQR0gQz6aTktt2f5CNQ