Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
— Maeve Binchy, born in 1939 not many Geminis ♊️ born in 1960’s are aware of this simple rule.Speech is not about how long the sentences or words are 😇😎
What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale:
But there is another crucial difference between May 2020 and May 2021: People have now lived through 14 months of pandemic life. Millions have endured a year of grief, anxiety, isolation, and rolling trauma. Some will recover uneventfully, but for others, the quiet moments after adrenaline fades and normalcy resumes may be unexpectedly punishing. When they finally get a chance to exhale, their breaths may emerge as sighs. “People put their heads down and do what they have to do, but suddenly, when there’s an opening, all these feelings come up,” Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, the founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute, told me. Lipsky has spent decades helping people navigate the consequences of natural disasters, mass shootings, and other crises. “As hard as the initial trauma is,” she said, “it’s
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Farmworker organizing in Washington is undoing discriminatory labor policies High Country News
Why Is Caste Inequality Still Legal in America?NYT. Good thing there’s no caste system in America, or “essential workers” would really be in trouble.
What the History of Commoning Reveals Grassroots Economics Organizing. E.P. Thompson’s students!
The wildfires are starting. Heated
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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?Stephen
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A Maryland candy company is cooking up chocolate covered cicadas CNN
The First Rule of Bite Club? Talk About It. Outside
De-Ratting Rat Island Brought Silent Ecosystem Back to Life Scientific American
Austerity’s Hidden Purpose Yanis Varoufakis, Projecy Syndicate
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Speaking of Everest: The Call of the Void London Review of Books
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 27 MAY 2021 by Patrick Armstrong Turcopolier (Kevin W). Important.
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No going back to Open Skies, US tells Russia ahead of Biden-Putin summit RT