A study in yellow and grey

> Pantone picks two colors of the year, and they’re complete opposites https://t.co/qmXVDMufvF — Fast Company (@FastCompany) December 9, 2020 [https://twitter.com/FastCompany/status/1336711782270984193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

A Story to Track

Gizmodo reports what will surely be remembered as a great hoax or a great story [https://gizmodo.com/unexplained-monolith-discovered-in-rural-utahs-red-rock-1845745303] .…

Don't Fear the Pause

David Brooks offers some terrific advice for making conversations count in Nine Nonobvious Ways to have Deeper Conversations [https://nyti.ms/3m0J77n]. His counsel not to fear the pause > Most of us stop listening to a comment about halfway through so we can be ready with a response. In…

Words

> “Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.” Slavoj Žižek — Philosophy On Ice (@PhilosophyOI) November 9, 2020 [https://twitter.com/PhilosophyOI/status/1325792805722050562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

As the election is finally called for Biden

> Not without some triumphant amusement. — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) November 7, 2020 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1325114767934189570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > I weep for joy — William Shakespeare (@Wwm_Shakespeare) November 7, 2020 [https://twitter.com/Wwm_Shakespeare/status/1325115109929259009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Cars now honking happily…

Keith Jarrett on the strokes he's suffered

> “I can only play with my right hand, and it’s not convincing me anymore,” Mr. Jarrett said. “I even have dreams where I am as messed up as I really am — so I’ve found myself trying to play in my dreams, but it’s just like real…

Those who do not remember their past...

> In 1702, during a small pox outbreak in Boston, authorities prohibited churches from ringing bells to memorialize the dead as the death count went up, hoping that it would delude the public into thinking the pandemic was under control. #cautionarytalespod [https://twitter.com/hashtag/cautionarytalespod?src=hash&ref_…

A simple message

> "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." Lorraine Hansberry #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #BlackHistoryMonth [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackHistoryMonth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/ZBpHTocIuZ [https://t.co/ZBpHTocIuZ] — Read More Women…