Balance
“Those Winter Sundays” (Robert Hayden)
“Those Winter Sundays”
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
—Robert Hayden
—from Collected Poems
feisty
feisty /FIY-stee/. adjective. Lively, tenacious, excitable, aggressive. From American English feist (small dog) > from fisting cur(derogatory term for lap dog) > from Middle English fysting curre (stinking cur) > from Middle English fysten (break wind) > from Proto-Germanic fistiz (fart). See also: spunky, plucky, gutsy, spirited, etc. || Pairs with the legendary Embuggerance & Feisty article.
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Links: June 17, 2018
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An online, community reading of Willa Cather’s novel, “My Ántonia”… three page-spreads at a time. Beautiful. → The Slow Read [Thanks, Reader M!]
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Food for intentional technology thought. → Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it, but the reasons remain largely mysterious.
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Don’t let the geeky name stop you, the Regex Dictionary lets you find words of all kinds based on their construction and their part(s) of speech. Surprisingly useful…for word nerds like myself anyway.
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Alexandra Bell’s Counternarratives revise, re-contextualize and re-write subtle (and sometimes none-too-subtle) racism on the New York Times front page, turning them into large pieces of public art. More and sometimes larger images can be seen in Art21 and on the Spencer Musefum of Art. Discovered via this (potentially paywalled) New Yorker profile of Bell.
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BotSpot: Sex And Sensibility: A horde of Jane Austen-quoting bots leads to Russian porn sites. Thanks, Reader B!
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“Speakers of anumeric, or numberless, languages offer a window into how the invention of numbers reshaped the human experience.” → How Do You Count Without Numbers?: Some human societies lack words for numbers. What does this say about the rest of us—and human evolution?
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“A recursive recipe is one where ingredients in the recipe can be replaced by another recipe. The more ingredients you replace, the more that the recipe is made truly from scratch.” For example: make that apple pie from scratch in just over 7.5 years.
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The Archive of Styles – From Gutenberg to the Moon – Reserve of Punches is an immensely browsable archive of physical typefaces, punches, experimental typography and much more that will entrance any type nerd. Clamorites might want to start with the curiosities, featuring manicules, coats of arms, bestiaries, lunar phases and more.
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And some memes and slang too! → Dictionary.com Has Officially Added Emoji
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Today is Father’s Day in the United States. Founded in 1910 in Vancouver, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd as “Fathers’ Day” and celebrated by Presidents including Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon B. Johnson, it would take 62 years for Father’s Day to become an official holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law. Father’s Day is the fourth-biggest sales day for the greeting card industry, though it trails far behind Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.
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