For all who have kids and have been feeling the social pressure and wrestling w/ the issue and might need/want to hear this:
your child does not need a smartphone.
"And while social media has eroded the art of association throughout society, it may be leaving its deepest and most enduring marks on adolescents." –– @JonHaidt
https://t.co/Nr5x49GHjz
War is always a defeat for humanity. Last August I put together a special episode of @songandstorypod that chronicles the evolution of my thoughts on the morality of nuclear war. It's a sonic trip through history. And it feels increasingly apropos.
https://t.co/RcJBPzxTia
I was perusing the used CDs at a @2ndandcharles this afternoon when I found my own album. It was right in between the @googoodolls and @natimbruglia.
Is this what "making it" feels like?
"If I have ever imitated anything good for the sake of my God whom I love, I ask that he grant me to be able to shed my blood with these converts and captives—even were I to lack a grave for burial, or my dead body were to be miserably torn apart limb from limb..."
— St. Patrick
"...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived Faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." — George Eliot