It's been an exhausting week of changes in many ways - which I'll explain next week. I haven't had much time to keep abreast of my various feeds and things while the hectic stuff went on so these are things that I opened a while ago and then shelved for a bit. I came back to them during the week and finally enjoyed their content around some travel and decision making conundrums. Enjoy!! 1 Jack Bauer
We are huge 24 fans in our house - loved this article about Jack and the new show - Designated Survivor! 2 Leading men Now, time for this interesting posit - are we post 'leading men' films? Go read it, it's gooood. 3 Why did white women vote for Trump? If, like me, you've mystified, read this article from the wonderful people at The Guardian. 4 Want a sober assessment of Trump? Noam Chomsky is your man. He's normally a clear headed voice on this stuff. No exception here. 5 Rogue One and more Interesting developments at Lucasfilm explained. Overtime Want to overcome paralysing fear? Okay then!
2 Paul is live! This story never goes away - Paul died in 1966 and was part of a Beatle conspiracy. LOL.
3 Kindness Great commencement address (not sure why they call them that because it's basically their 'well done - goodbye - go and fly now you've finished school' speech) by George Saunders about kindness.
4 Trump compared to Hitler? Free speech is under attack in the home of free speech. Not sure what this Principal is thinking. I assume not much. Scary story!
5 Then and now photos
I love this kind of of photographic comparison. These are by Chris Porsz and are well worth a look. Amazing to see how people have changed (or not).
Overtime Interesting video that you should take three minutes to watch and reflect upon.
4 Civil disobedience anyone? This essay by Henry David Thoreau is a very timely read! 4 This too...
The election in the US has led to an outpouring of words - some nah nah nah toldjaso; many angry; but also some considered like this piece. 5 Hollywood depressed Carl Reiner had the best tweet! Overtime Finally, my award for the best piece on the Trump win goes The New Yorker. Partisan and passionate. But I can't argue with them!
Hey, this is what happens when the advertising gets weird! Love it! 2 Steve Jobs Great learning here! Wise words to live by. 3 Seth Godin Not to be outdone - wise words from Seth that I try to share with my students - it's all about the moment! 4 A Swift debut Lovely piece revisiting Tay Tay's first album. 5 To cross street, press button Great story about the futility of pressing buttons. Overtime - Song of the week: Bruce Springsteen's autobiography (a fabulous read) comes with a great CD compilation - Chapter and Verse, containing stuff by his pre E Street band groups Steel Mill and The Castiles.
