Gonna be following along eagerly with Paper Shoot cameras: papershootcamera.com/. My friend Jesse pointed me to that product, a perfect companion for the email-based photo app of his that I use with my family and friends: finite.photos/.
2024
This’ll be me all week
Picking up our eldest from Down syndrome camp. Dance party to end the night! There are no dance parties like Trisomy 21 dance parties. Y’all are missing out.
I’ll be a great aunt today. My niece is at the hospital! We’re all so excited.
Oh MAN the Boston French Film Festival lineup looks so good: www.mfa.org/programs/…
Part 3 in my series on considering college. First was on formation, second on readiness, and this one on the prescriptive disciplines: sarahendren.com/2024/06/2…
I wrote about the big beautiful world of adaptive fashion, past and present, in this conversation with Grace Jun on her new book: sarahendren.substack.com/p/the-sha…
Sara H, apparently world’s worst Bostonian: why are all these ppl in the train wearing Celtics gear
Some days it feels like all intellectual roads lead to Erich Fromm’s having and being.
People with Down syndrome who were hospitalized with COVID were six times more likely than others to have a DNR order: news.harvard.edu/gazette/s…
Still amazed at how few people know how to ask questions in a social setting. It’s not hard! But people only know how to talk, tell stories, show their expertise. Then they pause, silent, and wait to be asked something else. I am freakishly curious, so I’ll do it, but it’s not a conversation.
All you southwest region folks would laugh — schools here sent out a heat advisory for next few days, when we’ll be having 97-98 temps. (And yes, this is finally their last week!)
This conversation on Camus, Algeria, and the parallels and distinctions of Gaza is just terrific. Robert Zaretsky is a treasure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Part 2 in my essay series about choosing colleges. This one’s about education as two kinds of readiness: sarahendren.com/2024/06/1…
Just wrote a short summary of my new film for the museum exhibition it’s in. The summary is for the audio description tour, part of accessibility work in museums. As ever, there’s more than one use for adaptation. I now have the clearest summary of the film for further festival submissions, etc.
Apparently the interwoven group biography is exactly my thing: sarahendren.com/2024/06/1…
Took my baby 3 to his scale modelers club meeting on Cape Ann. It’s held at a small Catholic school, behind which lies a big old cemetery where I walked during the meeting hour. The long-gone Dooleys, Ahearns, McShanes of the Victorian era. Mildest summer evening.
I wrote the first of several posts about how I’m wading through the assumption-laden process of choosing colleges with my teenagers. sarahendren.com/2024/06/1…
For the third year in a row, I’m setting up the easiest summer hangs: a Google doc with several weeknight dates we’re in town and free, sent to a bunch of friends. They pick a date, we all get BYO takeout and meet in a park with picnic tables, no endless emails and texts, no cleanup.
“the most aggressive version of the truth” as a public service? sarahendren.com/2024/06/0…
“In its ineffectiveness, architecture shares in the bathos of gardening: an interest in door handles or ceiling moldings can seem no less worthy of mockery than a concern for the progress of rose or lavender bushes… sarahendren.com/2024/06/0…
I am certainly watching Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s trajectory with interest.
An excellent panel of unusually sharp presentations on liberal education, civic education, and the purpose of the university. Conference host ASU SCETL is interesting all around. www.youtube.com/watch
Spent all weekend re-orging and spring cleaning. Finishing with a trip to the goodwill donation center in the next town over from me, which is conveniently near the only decent bbq in a many-mile radius
I have officially entered the sandwich era of middle age — and I’d like a better metaphor?
Student move-out season in Boston-Cambridge is a whole mood.
Finishing up an academic paper about the unproductively vague affirmations of interdisciplinarity and the framework I’ve developed to help sharpen what’s happening in my work.
With my youngest’s scout troop at the local city council meeting. (He’s seated, out of frame.) We were warmly welcomed. So good.
Still over here astonished at the deep challenge (twofold, at least!) of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. It’s not just “hold your views with humility”: sarahendren.com/2024/05/2…
an unconditioned whole
Monday, May 20, 2024
“If more thinkers were willing, like William Egginton, to extend and elucidate the philosophical implications of physics in the actual physics classroom, we’d quickly realize much more of the so-called interdisciplinarity that so many of us claim to want. But the mastery of calculations is just easier in the end…” I wrote about Egginton’s new book on Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant: sarahendren.com/2024/05/2…