Throwback Thursday: The air band episode of Scrubs, which was absolutely iconic and hands down the most accurate health care depicting TV show
Finished Reading: American Journal by Tracy K. Smith 📚
I loved carrying this little anthology around in my pocket at work and having a good poem available at any moment. I couldn’t possibly say more than what Smith says in her intro. Here’s an excerpt.
Scenes from our favorite Bozeman after-work walk, Drinking Horse Trail
The narrative repeated by officialdom got established before the facts were in, and went on to play a causal role in the subsequent history.
While he is talking about early versions of the “cash for clunkers” programs, I love how casually this enormous line gets dropped into Crawford’s book. And it’s followed very closely by another subtle-but-massively-true statement:
When the factual picture is messy in this way, but on the other hand, there is a public consensus that something must be done , there develops a great thirst for answers. Speaking simplistically offers a kind of cognitive relief. This is what politicians specialize in.
It’s worth noting that this satisfaction-in-simplicity is something we can all very easily “specialize in.”
Fresco Café by Bozeman Creek
Currently Reading: Why We Drive by Matthew Crawford 📚
I’m a couple chapters in, and so far it’s everything I hoped it would be, and more. I’m pausing after just about every paragraph to let the goosebumps settle. Crawford’s is a sorely needed mind.
Futurism is a genre of mythmaking that seeks to generate a feeling of inevitability around some desired outcome, a picture that is offered as though it were a prediction.
Outside smiles
There, where we trust, we have learned to place our lives in the hands of others; contrary to all the ambiguities in which our acts and lives must exist, we have learned to trust without reserve. We now know that one can truly live and work only in such trust, which is always a venture but one gladly affirmed. We know that to sow and to nourish mistrust is one of the most reprehensible things and that, instead, trust is to be strengthened and advanced wherever possible.
Dreaming of walks, of smells, of gopher holes and dog parks—oh, all that unmarked territory, waiting, waiting…
Blood moon? Or smoky sunrise?
