With over four years of listening to it, I couldn’t listen to Trump or talk of him today or of anyone playing that game. My mind and my ears craved this apparently. I’ve been listening to it again and again today:

https://youtu.be/vGpwgHqlfWo

I’ve told some people that I’m about to start reading James Joyce’s Ulysses, again. I told some that we who had all gone to Catholic schools and most to Catholic colleges had likely not been assigned it. Even though the American Church is an Irish Church. I said I read it in Cleveland out loud on my couch next to my dog five pages a day. And I read it again in New York. I have a life of reasons to read it again now. Here’s a 2-3 minutes thing from youtube that may make you want to read it, if you didn’t already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVFwljgw6Q&feature=share

One of the many things newspapers can do. A talk with Greta Thunberg in The New York Times today. Fascinating, her 17-year-old innocent directness:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/02/magazine/greta-thunberg-interview.html?referringSource=articleShare

Steph Curry has started a book club. He calls it ‘Underrated’. Here’s a conversation he had about it with a Washington Post writer:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/steph-curry-book-club/2020/10/17/973873c0-0dac-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html

Bruce Springsteen: ‘There's no art in this White House. There's no literature, no poetry, no music. There are no pets in this White House: no loyal man's best friend, no Socks, the family cat.’

This op-ed was in this morning’s Times. It stimulated me. With all the repetitive news about all kinds of big issues lately, it’s unusual to read something that’s not a retelling of stuff you’ve been hearing and seeing for days/weeks/months/years. This is about how remote learning at home for Black kids can be liberating. I wouldn’t have known that or thought that. New knowledge for me. Here’s the link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/virtual-school-racism.html?referringSource=articleShare

SHELVES is a pop-up bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina. I just this morning read a little bit about it. I like their sweatshirt and its message. You can find them online and on Facebook. The message to me is everything. A lot of the talk today talks about everything but that. Everything but that. I wish the subway was safe/clean enough for me to get downtown with my sign.