“We have to guard against the temptation to accept that history is necessarily the limits of who we are.” 🕊️Ta-Nehisi Coates
Her book, Hello Universe, was one of the best middle grade books I've read. Just ordered The First State of Being from bookshop.org ! Cannot wait for it to arrive!
Being off social media was good for my reading, not just in terms of time but especially my attention span; able to focus for longer, sustained periods. Just yesterday, @debbieohi.combsky.app/profile/debb...
I've noticed that people have shorter attention spans when it comes to reading 😢. I noticed it in myself during pandemic, realized that doom-scrolling had its effect. I started purposely retraining my brain after hearing this interview w/Maryanne Wolf. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/o...
The literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf maps out the ways “deep reading” nourishes our capacity for attention, empathy and insight.
Best way to not be disappointed when a book you love gets turned into a movie is to read the book again.
“Basketball was a vehicle that I used to get me where I’m going,” Mutombo told Sports Illustrated in 2022. “My inspiration in life is to improve the living condition of my people.”
We are all members of one human family. If we accept that…all will be well.🕊️
Farmworkers “ensure that we have food on our tables and sustain our agricultural industry – and they too have been in legal limbo for years because politicians have refused to come together and fix our broken immigration system.”
www.commondreams.org/opinion/nucl...
Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris has volunteered positions on nuclear arsenals or nuclear abolition, due to either not wanting to appear weak or a lack of understanding of the risks of their con...