by The Morning News
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2020, and what were the least?
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by The Morning News
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2020, and what were the least?
Electric Umbrella provides music lessons to those with learning disabilities and accepts instruments as donations.
Marsha went by “Black Marsha” before settling on Marsha P. Johnson. The “P” stood for “Pay It No Mind,” which is what Marsha would say in response to questions about her gender.
↩︎ The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
This isn’t difficult: What do you ruminate about in the middle of the night? Pinpoint that anxiety, and find the people who can fight it effectively.
↩︎ The Cut
In his first years writing, he says, “I was sitting at the International House of Pancakes in Raleigh, North Carolina with a beret screwed to my head,” and the result was “the writing you would expect from that person.”
↩︎ Open Culture
This is how to make a very fine insulated leather bag to tote a snowman to your friend's house.
Via Spoon & Tamago
From a big collection of Christmas poems, an excerpt of "Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost.
The city had withdrawn into itself
And left at last the country to the country;
When between whirls of snow not come to lie
And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove
A stranger to our yard, who looked the city,
Yet did in country fashion in that there
He sat and waited till he drew us out
A-buttoning coats to ask him who he was.
He proved to be the city come again
To look for something it had left behind
And could not do without and keep its Christmas.
He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
My woods—the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.
I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas Trees.
Other good stuff from Sandra Castillo, Toi Derricotte, Mary Jo Salter.
It is one thing to know intellectually that life is a miracle. Its quite another to see it. Saints and poets aside, most of us rarely do.
↩︎ Scientific American
Very excited to hear "Liberty Bell," the first new music from Darkside (Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington) since 2013.
In one story, a milkmaid decides to play a trick on her farm’s nisse, hiding the butter beneath the porridge. Seeing his offering ungarnished, the nisse flies into a rage and kills the family’s cow. When he finishes his meal and realizes his mistake, he “solves” the problem by stealing a neighbor’s cow and delivering it to his family’s farm.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura
In 1659, Massachusetts made it illegal to celebrate Christmas—a ban that lasted for the next 22 years.
A study from Lyft has determined that one hour of your free time is worth about $19.