A Matter of Ear

Interesting words and combinations thereof.

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‘The Hawaiian word kīpuka refers to an oasis in a bed of fresh lava, a chasm from which new plant life springs forth. In this spirit, Japanese migrants re-seeded the bon dance in Hawai‘i, “here it loosely resembles the original but takes on the terroir of its new land.”’

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keilahn aio — the other side of yesterday

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Working to solve the mysteries of what made the forests tick, and how they are linked to the earth and fire and water, made me a scientist. –@DrSuzanneSimard

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You don’t nurture art (in a child) so they become a better artist. You nurture art so they can become a better human. [@iamfujimura] #sanctifiedimagination

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Everyone is an artist until third grade. Then someone tells us we are not. The question is - how do we keep being artists? [@iamfujimura]

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“An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when they do not fit and draw new ones.” – J. Steinbeck, Sea of Cortez, March 25

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In times like these, it becomes the business of fiction to find ways of telling the truth. – S. Rushdie

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@vincentchu @whoisweiho the closing remarks by the last hagoromo president are really poignant: https://t.co/lEyhIRu3ON

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‘Immigration is merely restoring the diversity America held for thousands of years. Before European settlement, the mainland US was home to hundreds of Native American tribes & languages and came under control of a single government only within the last 100 years.’ —@jareddiamond

[Victoria Brownworth @VABVOX]

"I do want a woman for president, just not Hillary."
"I do want a woman for Speaker, just not Nancy."
"I do want a woman for [whatever], just not the one who's the most qualified."

242 years of this same misogynist mantra and they think we don't notice.

We noticed.

[Renato Mariotti @renato_mariotti]

Winning the House means Trump can’t pass laws without Democratic votes. It gives Democrats a seat at the table.

It also means that Adam Schiff, not Devin Nunes, chairs the House Intel Committee. Democrats can investigate and check the Trump Administration.

Your votes mattered.

[Timothy Whalen 🌮 @littlebluedog]

USPS tracking:

Step 1: we don't think it exists
Step 2: delivered

[nadirah @hinadirah]

#JamesBaldwin's response to a Yale professor asking “So why must we always concentrate on color?” is still the most fire answer in answer history. Happy Birthday!

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Ricketts wrote this to Torsten Gislen in 1938, 20 years before the sardine collapse in Monterey Bay: https://t.co/8dDO2iZwom

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The canneries are going strong—they’ll extract every single sardine out of the ocean if legislation doesn’t restrain them, already the signs of depletion are serious. Funny how Americans can’t learn the lesson that the N European countries have known for a century | EF Ricketts

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Because too often (in zoology as in all other fields) what are thought of as disciplines operate chiefly as biases—prescribed ways of thinking and of doing, into which the professional may retreat when shocked or challenged by some anomaly. | E. F. Ricketts

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As soon as people make money, they seem to purchase loneliness | D Brooks

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Writing is about structure and traffic management. So I crawl - I write by crawling around on the floor. | D Brooks