Short comic, while I work on something bigger on the side. It is nevertheless a very important topic. A lot of seabirds die because they eat plastic. They feed their chicks with the waste. It’s really tragic.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Nearly a million books are published each year in the US by some estimates. Even if we trim that number down to just “literary books” (whatever that term means), there are thousands of books fillin...
My favorite kind of morning.
I just remembered that my “new” book in the other room is actually a fricken library book!! My brain makes me think I own all the books.
On the Shelves in Oxford this week you can either go Backpacking with the Saints or spend your time Living with the Stars - or both! Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago. Backpacking with the Saints is an intimate narrative of backpacking alone through the wilderness as a spiritual practice.
Photos by Jack Campbell-Smith for Oxford University Press.
When you show your significant other (of not that longish) your likes on Tumblr - and that set of wedding dress photos that you liked and forgot about (most likely when you were inebriated) is in the feed - so you quickly scroll past although you just spent a minute describing why you liked each and every one of the other posts....
1. Your DACA is valid until its expiration date.
2. No New DACA applications will be accepted.
3. DACA Issuance’s and work permits expiring between now and March 5, 2018 must be submitted for renewal by October 5th, 2017.
4. Advance parole to travel abroad is no longer available.
5. We are united in this fight.
You are not alone. We mobilized, organized, and marched five years ago for DACA, and we will continue to do everything in our power to protect immigrant youth and their families across the country. Visit weareheretostay.com for resources to help you and your loved ones take care of themselves in this difficult time as well as information on what you can do to take action now.
Toni Morrison (1931–2019), U.S. author and editor (right), and Angela Davis (b. 1944), U.S. author, academic, political activist, one of the authors Morrison edited at Random House publishing company, photographed by Jill Krementz on March 28, 1974 in New York City
Reading. Reading about reading. Reading about reading about reading.
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