Very glad to see Richard Reeves heading up a new institute on boys and men: https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/some-news-i-cant-wait-to-share?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
In a few weeks I’ll be around Port Angeles, WA with my mom for a much-anticipated walking trip celebrating our two milestone birthdays this year. Would love recs for day hikes (on the easy end of things), food, sights.
[She] once told me she did not publish a certain writer I admired because he wrote to have the last word on a topic, rather than to open it up. sarahendren.com/2023/06/2…
SO glad to see @dorsalstream@mastodon.cloud here on MB; I recommend you follow what he’s up to. Always good.
I loved this profile of Molly Burhans, a Catholic GIS cartographer working to help the RCC understand its land usage and climate work: www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/2…
Also, I just realized why I had trouble initially with alt text: the tap on the thumbnail only works if you originate the post in the MB app. So, no starting from the photo gallery in iOS, for ex, and selecting MB from there. cc @jean
Gonna have two of my teens work through this text this summer. Geared for younger kids, but I figure the straightforward and easy language will be right for a summer/chill vibe in the assignment.
I have so enjoyed the very protracted process of re-finding some friends I made from Twitter—mostly one at a time, frictionful, and usually via surprise email. No regrets about leaving that platform! And glad that some connections have regrown.
The limits of “principlism” in medical ethics: autonomy, authority, and the search for supple moral foundations. sarahendren.com/2023/06/1…
Trying again to use alt text here… no “done” button once you’ve added text, but gonna see if this works. Weeknight walk to the local ice cream shop. (And update: works!)
Got my colleague Deb Chachra’s book in hand. How Infrastructure Works. Coming this October! This is gonna make some big waves. Deb is one of the best thinkers I know.
Took our three teens to see Past Lives last night. Beautifully done! Worth the price of the theater.
“Booze has a hand on everybody’s shoulder in this city.” sarahendren.com/2023/06/0…
“The World Health Organization errs when it defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.” A related error is made by the agrarian poet and social critic Wendell Berry, whose work… sarahendren.com/2023/06/0…
Currently reading: The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession (Curlin/Tollefsen). Prepping for a seminar!
We saw Bruce Cockburn at the Cabot in Beverly last night. Best kind of concert: small sit-down venue, beautifully preserved old theater, BC with bright white beard and voice as strong as ever. Acoustic, 12-string, Dobro, dulcimer.
Can folks here recommend some good reading on what unites sports that have balls of any kind? Looking for philosophical, theoretical, historical treatments especially. What does a ball as equipment do to the character of a game? How is its presence most effective in making fun/suspense/challenge?
My daughter had her last lacrosse team dinner last night. She’s in 9th grade, first time on a big team. I’ve been skeptical about the lofty claims people make for sports and character, but I have to say: one brilliant coach can be transformative. Here, a sweatshirt with her last name on the back, a group photo on the field under night lights, and a small card with the word “optimism” on it.
the tent and the estuary: sarahendren.com/2023/05/3…
One lucky Mass MoCA visitor got to ride EJ Hill’s roller coaster for one—like a track of stretched pink taffy, very Wonka-esque. Hill says roller coasters are “public monuments to the possibility of joy.”
