Among the Things We Saw Last Night

2010-12-24 less than 1 minute read

A woman playing an enormous mobile carillon mounted on the back of a truck, at the Christmas market in Old Town Square. This wasn’t the best thing she played — there was some really intricate stuff, with fists and hair flying — but it gives a sense of what it felt like. Just breathtaking.

Merry Christmas, all.

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Intervention

2023-03-09 less than 1 minute read

It’s spring break here at MSU, and never in the history of spring break was a spring break more needed.1 I’ve spent the week digging into book revisions that I’d been dragging my heels on, mostly out of fear that I didn’t know what I was doing. That I had no authoritative position from which to b...

Plastics

2023-02-26 less than 1 minute read

Someone on Mastodon linked to this Cory Doctorow piece on Exxon’s 50-year lie about the recyclability of plastics, saying that they were only surprised how far back the lie went. And it brought to mind a conversation that has haunted me for almost that long.

Our Leadership Practice

2023-02-22 less than 1 minute read

Wrapping up Madeleine Shaw’s The Greater Good today, a fantastic book that provides a wealth of practical advice for anyone who wants to create a project, an organization, or a company that has as its goal transforming the world. Near the end she describes

Bananas

2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

We had super overripe bananas, and I had seen a recipe, and so I got it in my head to make a banana cake. I am not a baker, so this is a rare event.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick