Currently obsessed with watermelon sprinkled with Stardust chili lime mix.
Seeking readings and resources for my new course on design for the assisted human body: sarahendren.com/2023/07/1…
Thinking about how one might organize an architecture/planning class around the themes of US transience, family structures, social mobility, the choice to stay rooted in adulthood, rather than chase jobs only. We got that discourse in Wendell Berry when I was in college, but almost nowhere else.
So pleased my teenagers can still get excited about building a fort on a summer day. How much longer?
My social design collaboration called the Accessible Icon Project is now on view at the Cooper Hewitt, as part of Give Me A Sign: The Language of Symbols: www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/g…
I see my preferred podcast app, Stitcher, is folding later this summer. What other podcast services are folks into these days? I also use the Apple Podcast app, but its UI is…about as good as iTunes.
[School superintendent] Marlon Styles did the opposite of what most leaders do in conflict: he asked for help. He called on local ministers and a group of well-informed community members, whom he called his “positive gossipers,” to speak up… sarahendren.com/2023/07/1…
Possibly the most milestone-birthday-year cliche ever, but I have gone ahead and scheduled a call to explore working with a marathon coach.
It’s going to take a lot of effort to create a countervailing narrative to a generous-seeming “autonomy-led” idea of the good life — to situate autonomy in its right-sized place among a panoply of other strong virtues and civic goods…https://sarahendren.com/2023/07/10/permanent-relief/
Currently reading: Stephen Buoro’s The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, and Jay Baruch’s Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER.
This girl’s three years old today.
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…