/ht @PhilosophyMttrs

From David Leonhardt's 2021-09-02 newsletter (paywalled?):

As the journalist Alexandra Tempus [recently wrote](https://nyti.ms/3kLx2mZ) for Times Opinion:

> We are now at the dawn of America’s Great Climate Migration Era. For now, it is piecemeal, and moves are often temporary. … But permanent relocations, by individuals and eventually whole communities, are increasingly becoming unavoidable.

I want to build my skills for patience to stay longer than that in the transitional spaces, to not be overwhelmed while I pay attention to what’s cracking irritatingly and inconveniently, to what’s opening, what’s confusing, and what’s flourishing in the transitioning cracks. (The history of the present-in-transition.)
- Lauren Berlant (28 April 2017)
https://www.berfrois.com/2017/04/lauren-berlant-writing-light/

JUST A TEST
2021-08-31 test post

a Twitter gem from a few day's ago:
@LiteraryVienna: “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed https://twitter.com/LiteraryVienna/status/1428807586762080264/photo/1

Plague Poems - @PlaguePoems:
Contrary to what
the pop song declared
it is the end of the world
as we know it
and I do not
feel fine.

* A compendium of the seventy-fourth week of plague poems…
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/plague-poems-the-seventy-fourth-week/

For today's mood:

today's Twitter gem:
doctor peanut - @NINETIREDBUGS: ok the problem with thinking "it's been a really tough week! why shouldn't i get myself a little treat" is that it's been at least 53 rough weeks in a row and the amount of little treats i now require to feel baseline happy is accelerating at a terrifying pace

Right, off to bed.
So as not to sleep.
To listen to the darkness,
the silence, the solitude and the dead.

-Samuel Beckett, from a letter to Mania Perón
via @chowleen on Twitter
#cosopoetry

Today's Twitter gem: Emily Flake - @EmilyFlake: If you add a comma, “Call me, Ishmael” turns Moby-Dick into the world’s longest voicemail

Today's morning coffee item:

For today's smile from Twitter:
(Joyce Carol Oates - @JoyceCarolOates): UFO, CRT, PTSD & IMO go into a bar....

(Jody Price - @jodzilla64): and the bartender said “we don’t serve acronyms in this bar.” The acronyms said “at least we stand for something!”

Tonight's Twitter gem:

Another important post and critique of work from @stoweboyd on Twitter. The pull quote for me is an aside, but seems so on point today: we are "... amid a year’s worth of unprocessed grief."

https://workfutures.substack.com/p/overwork-and-the-cult-of-ambition

Another affordance of paper (/ht Twitter):
Kaitlin Curtice - @KaitlinCurtice: FOR THE READERS:
I consider it an act of love for you to show me your coffee-stained pages from my books. It means you're bringing my words to your world. Both @travisbcurtice and I each have our own copy of #NativeBook and they have their own unique coffee stains. ☕️

Travis B. Curtice - @travisbcurtice: Can you truly love a book if it hasn’t also served as a coffee mug coaster?

Shierholz also discussed the labor shortage myth on the Pitchfork Economics podcast: “The thing that I always suggest that people say is—when they hear an employer say, ‘I can’t find the workers that I need’—always add the phrase ‘at the wage I want to pay.’” https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/its-not-a-labor-shortage-its-a-wage-shortage-with-heidi-shierholz/