Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail - via nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/biden-executive-orders.html
Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement
The president also canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and ordered federal agencies to begin the process of reinstating environmental regulations – via nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/climate/biden-paris-agreement-keystone.html
Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse
The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen,” she says. via @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/books/amanda-gorman-inauguration-hill-we-climb.html
This is @TheAmandaGorman today, invited to speak at JB's big day today.
Put that fact aside.
LISTEN to her.
WATCH her hands.
She's awesome. Captivating if your heart is open to her message, HER words.
The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-simple-dutch-cure-for-stress
'We are falling on our face because we are jumping high' https://the.ink/p/hope
TLDR: fuck around and find out?
The truth is that we really do need healing in the body politic. Like the human body, however, closing up an infected wound will only let the infection fester and grow, and ultimately threaten the life of the entire body. We must clean out the infection from our body politic. Only then can we bind and close the wound and hope to heal.