Category Archives: Mind & Society
Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad
Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.
Also posted in Local Life Tagged Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace 4 Comments
Can’t Take My Joy From Me (Michelle Shocked)
On this day, I think it is O.K. to be happy….
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
Also posted in Arts & Literature, Margin Notes, Reading Around, Science & Technology Tagged Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire Leave a comment
A Heritage and Future of Reading
When the books we have are no longer the books we knew, who will teach us to read?
Also posted in Arts & Literature, Reading Around Tagged Annie Dillard, Bob Stein, Charles Williams, Connie Willis, Digital Literacy, Family, Future, Institute for the Future of the Book, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jakob Nielsen, John Crowley, Liberal Arts, Mark Bauerline, Online Literacy, Piers Anthony, Reading, Robert Gu, Susan Cooper, Virginia Woolf Leave a comment
On Making the Future
To the extent that the future is shaped by human action, it is not much use trying to predict it ? it is much more useful to understand and work with the people who are engaged in the decisions and actions that bring it into existence.
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Remebering Labor, Entering Rest