larryhammer: canyon landscape with saguaro and mesquite trees (desert)
Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2018-01-12 08:01 am

"Content with hips and haws and brambleberry, / In contemplation passing still his days"

Linkage, linkage, linkage, always with the linkage. At least, sometimes.

Things they don’t tell you about being a first time wheelchair user in highschool. (via)

It is not a fact that we live in a post-fact world. Summary of the evidence for and, increasingly, against the idea that presenting someone with evidence that contradicts existing biases will provoke doubling-down. (via?)

What it takes to be a wilderness fire watch: “It doesn’t take much in the way of mind and body to be a lookout. It’s mostly soul.” (via?)

Subject quote from "A Passion of My Lord of Essex," Robert Devereux.
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2018-01-12 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Framing, story-telling, all that -- those all matter. Now more than ever.

Absolutely. But that's better than shrugging and agreeing we're all just neurologically doomed.