Myles Nye

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Her visit at the end!!

I could have written this review, which I endorse, amplify and echo (technically I finished this afternoon but I read last night til I couldn’t keep my eyes open). Such a great read, it’s among the best novels I’ve read in years! Highly recommend

Little Richard officiated at the wedding of Tom Petty and Dana York

“The Glossary: Where Good Things Happen”

Original draft was 39 chapters but now it’s just 26. And they ALL have three paragraphs of six sentences each. Pretty predictable if ya ask me.

Why is it always activate the randomizer and never randomize the activator #TheFloor #hm

When Sean from Survivor’s first season wrote an existential novel from the perspective of a cow, Jane Goodall fell all over herself to blurb it and that is her legacy

I just finished this book yesterday 🥸

You’ll shit bricks

Today I found out that at my kids’ school the rumor about me is that I work for NPR. I don’t. Maybe I should! This is maybe the most flattering thing that has ever happened to me.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Nobody forced you to quit Puzzmo

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Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. **

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

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“Blubbering mess” would not be uncharitable

Ask me if I got emotional watching “Into the Woods” with my son at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Glendora!

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Jeff Hull. His actual name is Jeff Hull.

Also now is as good a time as any to tell you I am a huge fan of og Upstairs Downstairs, which fits on your list 🩵

Sang this one to my infant children

The yeast of your worries

Jeff Nuss just can’t stop inviting people to otherworldly tea ceremonies huh

Did you watch Mayhem on Disney+?

Or! Is there a non AU non US season with players coming back that is better to watch than any AU season?? When does Shannon wake up?

I should have mentioned:
I’ve seen George’s 2nd season (HvV I think) and Titans Vs Rebels (I’m a huge Kirby fan)

I’m interested in seeing David’s game but I mostly care about entertainment value

I’m 1 ep into CvC2. Do I keep going? Or swerve to All Stars?

Nice

If I’m gonna watch ONE season of international Survivor to prepare for Au Vs the World, which one should I pick?

Wow, harsh!