Finished CIRCE by Madeline Miller 📚
What a beautiful rumination on change and the ups and downs of life. I basically had tears for the last quarter of the book (and I read the last 45% just today! Couldn’t stop)
Ha ha my sidebar! 😅
Took a walking tour of the Vancouver Japanese Language School neighbourhood. Founded in 1906 this new building was erected in 1928 designed by the same firm that made Burrard Bridge and the Art Museum. Mosaics commemorate the internment in 1942 and race riots of 1907.
Of course there are victims in this poem: victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim you are here victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim victim
Excerpt of History by Tracy K. Smith
h/t to Neverpo.st
#poetry
- Electricity-enabled Company
- Digital-enabled Company
- Internet-enabled Company
- AI-enabled Company
A little tour down the “we have been here before” path of corporate transformation
And was that not the point of a marriage? To love a person more than they can love themselves?
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Using a small locally-hosted quantized chinese language model to brainstorm research into my ancestors' mennonite roots with great success… what a world
After a long time reading I finally finished the first Great Khandhaka. Shifting gears a bit and re-reading The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal 📚 for the first time in 10 years! Looking forward to seeing what I get out of it this time round after having started my training in earnest.
If I were in Taiwan on this warm evening I would be at the pool (photo from Apr 27 2024) #memories
Back home in Surrey after a few days in the Okanagan. Sad to say bye to friends and family, but glad to be breathing clean air again. Here was driving by Merritt. You couldn’t even see the town at all. 😵💫 AQI there is currently 366. Kelowna is about 200-250 😷
Pretty smoky in Kelowna today for Day 1 of our summer holiday. Here is a comparison of the view with a shot from the past
Made it to the Smokanagan. Here is crossing over the bridge with downtown on the left. Happy summer holidays! ⛱️👙😎🔥
About to be Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3D’d with Daughter 2 🕷️
Powell Street Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We spent the afternoon there, saw some friends, ate some food, listened to some drumming, and painted some fish (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gyotaku-japanese-fish-printing)
Yeah it’s 3am but I been going down a Northeast India rap hole. Kim bring the pen game and Reble is a revelation! 💎
This looks cool → digshibuya.com Shibuya opens its streets as an urban laboratory… issues a global open call to artists and innovators. Applications in En open to 31 Aug. Last years' fest had 470,000 people! #Japan #art #tech (h/t @z-space.ca)
Mother and daughter worked together this morning 👩🏻👧🏻 to make snacks for daughter’s school potluck today. Looking forward to pics of all the other food! 🥘 🍱🍲
Is there no good biography of Sundar Pichai out there? 🧐
Today on my walk under the wild green trees and amber setting sun I started listening to The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 📚
“effective extractivism” 🔥🔥🔥