Holly Masturzo

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Guess it was good I ended my weekly call with hockey(most sports)-loving parents to let them enjoy Q3 & OT. May be able to hear them up the I-4 corridor. Heartbreak for our Canadian friends who pushed the U.S. to the last.

In junior high, we had a summer program in Philosophy & Lit at a local college with a Prof. William Lohman... who assigned us, among other plays, Death of a Salesman.

💚 it's own zafu 🥹

The contrast in a generation - one vivid memory about reporting for freshman orientation at FSU was being put in a line to get (re)immunized bc they couldn’t interpret my records. Called family doctor in a panic & got it sorted but there was a block on my registration, housing, etc. until we did.

I love that they sent holiday cards! That is a wonderful idea :)

It is very sweet to see at my lunch spot today the local library has a booth set up with books wrapped as Valentines, encouraging people to sign up for a library card and check out a book 💜

Thought similar!

Yes - just got results back from this version myself. Awkward but a good step, especially for those of us for whom it's harder to find transportation support after anesthesia.

1) AmericaS, say the S.

2) Expecting a half dozen presentations on the amount of green/sugar cane/plantains, etc. in this show at upcoming NWSA which is themed "Wild"

On point! Time for super snacks. My next Publix run is timed for the Girl Scout cookie booth 😂

Perhaps a local cultural center or sangha would appreciate a donation?

Also Samantha Cristoforetti 🇮🇹 🤍

Have caught up with opening ceremonies in Milano Cortina & must say I appreciated how the dance segments in particular were choreographed mainly as they would be in a theater, well done with proper ballet & modern movements, the opening w/ Teatro alla Scala’s academy of course & choreo w/ Ghali too.

...while also feeling they were genuinely working by looking up "answers," tutorials, etc. elsewhere (online). Unintended consequence (benefit of the doubt) of e-books & Ed Tech broadly, just too many options that drown the self <--> source connection. So we tried to talk about trusting our humanity

Had a great if hard chat with my intro ethics students today about reading. Really don't think there is an ability or motivation issue as much as has been made out in some places. Was surprised there was a kind of lack of trust in the self to work with material directly, to just read on their own...

Ugh. No 🙄

🚨Calling all anthropologists who love sport, study sport, play sport, and/or write about sport. It’s time for a topical interest group focused on sport to bring us together in conversation and collaboration. If you’re interested in forming a TIG, please let me know. It only takes 10 of us to start.

I’m picturing a very flexible adaptation of “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but teachers (ECE- graduate school) are fucking exhausted right now and have to keep teaching during *points to world*. It's rough normally, it's been extra rough for years, and right now it's basically boss levels rough. Don't beat yourself up, fellow educators.

Let’s go all the way, Let’s go all the way….

Several beanie hats featuring the Tampa Bay Lightning logo and one USPS

My brother came down from Ohio to take my parents to today’s outdoor hockey game in Tampa - unusually cold for it. We are pooling the warm weather gear. (I just met them for lunch - will let them enjoy the cold tonight.)

Whew. The poem at 2:20. "...But I believe there are birds. Whose songs of love aren't heard by people who need to care." Clarity.

✨Learning is good. In college and/or in the world.
5 undergrad classes:
1. Religion in America
2. Pain: The Play
3. Russian Folklore (in Rus)
4. Ballet II
5. Women Writers

I had this too - and then had mixed feelings as classmates would teasingly call me Holly Hobbie sometimes. Sweet to see the pic.

Thanks Chris :) The community context can be so important 💜

(I think it caught me off guard a bit to feel that on campus again - a sad comment on our times in Florida higher ed.)

It’s cold, there’s a baseline stress I can’t shift, but my students were so enthusiastic about reading poems aloud today (Anne Bradstreet!).

Really touched me and the best reminder of simple ways to (re)claim our humanity.

A Saturday and a state killing: soccer as Minnesota is torn apart | Jeff Rueter On the whims of Fifa’s Peace Prize winner, a life usually so focused on sports has found anything but peace

NEW: Reflections on a soccer Saturday, from a state under siege by the FIFA Peace Prize winner. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Alas it’s already “pending”