{"id":2621,"date":"2021-05-06T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:03:22","slug":"covid-tidings-contd-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"COVID TIDINGS, CONT’D, AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODAY’S JOYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love the idea of “graffiti-ed graffiti,”<\/strong> the public adding to public art and making the art better, like scientists doing great work by “standing on the shoulders of giants” who came before them.\u00a0 But what happens when\u00a0<\/span>the unsuspecting\u00a0public “added” to a signed work of \u201cabstract expressionist graffiti\u201d<\/a> in a shopping mall, and the irate artist thought it defaced his $400,000.00 work and wanted $9,000.00 to de-deface it, but I, for oe critic, thought it looked better with add-ons?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I would show you the articles with art\u00a0<\/a><\/span>, but Charlie tells me it’s illegal for me to put them in my blog on the ultra slim chance that it might make money, even though a readership of six and\u00a0 a blog wjth nothing to buy makes it seem unlikely.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Instead, I have pictures of my latest Seattle public art finds which, I assure you, I can’t add to and Charlie won’t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right caption haiku:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Octopus as teacher.\u00a0 Kraken, mascot.\u00a0 Squid bike rack, usefully odd<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two books I loved that came to mind as I wrote this were The Double Helix by James D. Watson<\/strong> (discovering the structure of DNA)\u00a0 and On the Shoulders of Giants by Robert K. Merton<\/strong> (tracing concept’s history and use).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Left caption haiku:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bridge mural is great.\u00a0 So is real thing, a mile more on bike path.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I love Heather Cox Richardson.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>She is a historian whose “Letters from an American<\/strong>” are like a lovely conversation that gives perspective with footnotes to the day’s events.\u00a0 She is a 4th-generation Mainer and lives on the coast,<\/a> which I also\u00a0 love, and is a superstar on Substack,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> which I am glad exists, but don’t know much about.<\/p>\n

I love the advice,\u00a0\u201cTeach children not to talk to strangers, then teach them not to believe what they read on the internet<\/strong>,\u201d but hate that it came from a slander spreader who was a big part of \u00a0false-information spreader-networks<\/a>.\u00a0 Why should we care so much?<\/p>\n

Because “Information warfare threat to the United States is different from past threats, and it has the potential to destroy reason and reality as a basis for societal discourse, replacing them with rage and fantasy<\/strong>. [ Sounds like daily headlines.\u00a0 VERY WORRISOME.\u00a0 Emphasis added.] Perpetual civil war, political extremism, waged in\u00a0 the information sphere and egged on by our adversaries is every bit as much of an existential threat to American civilization and democracy as any military threat imaginable,\u201d says a\u00a0cyber policy and national security expert to U.S. lawmakers and noted by Dr. Richardson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what makes a better prepared searcher, chooser, and user of information?\u00a0 Attack the algorithms,\u00a0Farhad Man<\/a>joo, whom I love, <\/strong>sort of suggests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>“The internet [which includes social media]\u00a0 is still ruled by viral algorithms and advertising metrics that prize outrage over truth.”\u00a0 For example, Amazon’s algorithms, which favor their owned or otherwise linked\u00a0 works, have never suggested anything ese I might like to read or buy.\u00a0 \u00a0Now I need to learn more about the “politics” of algorithms.\u00a0 <\/strong>As good mothering would have it, she sort of humble-bragged, I have raised a math guy who does not believe I passed a statistics prelim or that there is a “politics” of algorithms.\u00a0 The challenge is ON.<\/p>\n

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A bib?\u00a0 A scarf?\u00a0 IT’S A BARF!\u00a0 \u00a0Dribblers, barf up and make your son proud!<\/p><\/div>\n

I love Poetry Club<\/strong>, especially the enlightening, but time-consuming search for the perfect poems and poet[s].\u00a0 I did many Internet searches for and through too few individual poems, too few digitized books, bios, reviews and serendipitous\u00a0 Poetry Month gems.\u00a0 I purchased six 1-click books\u00a0 —\u00a0 2 collections, 3 individual volumes, and 1 ho-hum murder mystery [ See last post]\u00a0 —\u00a0 scanned them all and stumbled across 2 articles<\/a>.\u00a0 Then I chose my “World Class” poets and poems.<\/p>\n

Two poems by Wislawa Szymborska:\u00a0 \u00a0A Word on<\/strong> or A Contribution to Statistics\u00a0<\/strong> [thoughtful, wry’] and\u00a0 Vietnam<\/strong> [powerful; says it all.].\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Two poems by Billy Collins:\u00a0 To My Favorite 17-year old\u00a0 Girl<\/strong> [wry, wise, and loving] and My Hero<\/strong> [perfect;\u00a0I love the tortoise<\/strong>; copied below].<\/p>\n

My Hero\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/b>By Billy Collins\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the hare is zipping across the finish Line,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>the tortoise has stopped once again\u00a0<\/span>by the roadside,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>this time to stick out his neck\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and nibble a bit of sweet grass,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>unlike the previous time\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I love libraries<\/strong>, all and forever, where minds past and present meet\u00a0 to become.\u00a0 My latest library love is the becoming Obama Presidential Library.<\/strong>\u00a0 Imagine it as a hub that connects usefully all the records in all the places\u00a0 and formats pertinent to an an Obama quest and that houses, maybe a changing, body of works to keep it lively.\u00a0 Maya Lin’s re-do of the Smith College Library<\/a> is wonderful and rests on many similar ideas.\u00a0 I love Maya Lin.\u00a0<\/strong> And, though I do not love it in the same way, Google’s new designs for work<\/a> [and study?] spaces area fraught with potentially useful expectations and possibilities.<\/p>\n

And where were the libraries and librarians in the Nashville Schools plan to spend 200 million COVID 19 relief dollars?\u00a0 New or more counselors and social workers, okay,\u00a0 but where are the phys. ed. teachers and librarians? I fumed.\u00a0 Where are the fitness and options people that foster healthy bodies and healthy minds?\u00a0 Bring on PE and librarians for a better tomorrow.\u00a0 I love libraries and librarians<\/strong> who keep them vital.\u00a0 The Nashville Super needs work.<\/p>\n

I love Maine’s always special wildflowers and Scott’s story-filled pictures<\/strong>.\u00a0 Can you see Andrew Wyeth painting or Lilius Gilchrist Grace in her glory days?<\/p>\n

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“I willll frolic in the phlox with friends,” said the tortoise, and the hare hared.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am the tortoise.<\/p>\n

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