Sunrise: 28 Jan 2021, Austin, Texas

social tip from a Buddhist:

For the time when we can be closer in public:
If you are sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

twitter on :fire: this afternoon:
In Libro Veritas - @InlibroV:
"Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself."
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

a twitter gem for today:
Samantha Rose Hill - @Samantharhill: "I've had a hard time getting used to the world again. Also, I'm just a plain bit tired."
- Hannah Arendt

today's twitter gem:
Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber:
“We lack words, and we have too many of them.”
~ Susan Sontag
Born on this day, in 1933

thanks to .@ilya_poet

Lawyer Thoughts - @lawyerthoughts: ERROR: looks like you’re attempting to jump to “healing” and “unity” without passing through “accountability” and “consequences.”

Please go back and finish “accountability” and “consequences” before trying to successfully load “healing” and “unity.”

#cosopoetry moment

mood:
(/ht twitter.com/writersdoing)

Amitav Ghosh, The great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1154573748) Very incisive analysis of 20th C literature, history, and politics, and what (and why) we are not able to think about climate change. Recommended.

A Twitter gem for today:
Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
~ Albert Camus
Died on this day, in 1960