Yes indeed — and grateful for it. We’ll take it. Can only hope it’s enough to offset what they’re planning to do to elections…

Only wild that the change is still so small… thx for sharing this research & doing the work Anat.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Screen grab of pen America post about Carle’s book being banned

Well chosen, given Eric Carle grew up in Nazi Germany and now in America one of his children’s books is being banned.

“Hitler dictated not only politics and everything, he also dictated art,” [Carle] told NPR in 2011.

📙Vonnegut (Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions)
📘Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
📕Cervantes (Don Quixote)
📗Wright (Praiseworthy - like an Aboriginal Australian anti-colonization climate collapse Don Quixote, & so f’n funny)

10,000% Jim is the GOAT. He is the poster child for the elevated side of capitalism. I called the head of Aspen Institute Biz & Society years ago to ask who was the best 4BL company she knew & I was shocked to hear Costco. So I did a research project on him — massive fan ever since.

He’d love it - declare martial law - total control over civilian s - make even more money for defense industry buddies

In a dream you saw a way to survive, and you were full of joy.

—Jenny Holzer, Survival Series

It comes out swinging… beautiful writing so far…

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Same! It’s on the top of the pile as soon as I finish this…

Alexis Wright Praiseworthy book cover held in front of a garden in the sunshine

Once upon a fine time for some people in the world, but not so plenteous, nor perfect for others, there lived a culture dreamer obsessing about the era. He was no great dreamer, no greater than the rest of the juggernauts in his heartbroken, storm-country people’s humanity…
—Alexis Wright

😂 Perhaps we can consider it to be “action adjacent.” Can’t wait. Maybe I’ll try out my new fake Aussie accent to contribute to the global “voibes.”

See you there Davey & thx Lucy!
📚🤓📚

Thanks Thanks for the tree

If I were a poetry teacher I’d pair this with Komunyakaa’s “Thanks.”

Bullets. Fate. The physical & mental ravages of war. The trauma of death — & survival.

poets.org/poem/thanks-0

Loving Kindness
Compassion
Empathetic Joy
Equanimity

#WordsToLiveBy

An antiquarian book of Maquiavelo with canapés on top

Easily solved — take a page from Maquiavelo.