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For the Time Being - Annie Dillard
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A recommendation of Dagmar's, a series of beautifully written meditations on the meaning of life. Lots of interesting sources to explore from here.
Beach Pebbles
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Picked up from the beach near the guest house, scouring for hammers, arrowheads, whatever, nada.
Lots of Tufa - porous carbonate minerals deposited by springs, different shapes that resemble corals, conglomerate (with mixed pebbles & plants in the mineralization), casts of plants the tufa formed around (natural "beads"), pink quartz, some botryoidal quartz (? Maybe calcite, not sure,...) a few others chosen for shape or color. Lots of rocks to choose from, Beach glass and old worn crockery, but not an artifact in sight.
Vice on Boredom
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This pandemic, it's boring the hell out of me and everyone else on Earth too I'm sure.
I mean, I've more than once scrolled to the end of Reddit - I'd tell you what's there, but you've probably been there too.
Anyways, an excellent article courtesy of Vice (they have some great articles) on How to Deal with Boredom.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mzbx/how-to-deal-with-boredom
The Mandalorian - Season 2
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So, no surprises, Disney has monetized the hell out of this with a whole slew of new Star Wars min-series coming in the near future. They are sucking the joy out of my childhood. Season 2, well - I can't criticize it - it's clearly aimed at children - young children, under 12's, yet in pursuit of mindless things I sat through it, got "hooked" on the inanity of it all. True to form, at the end of the season they invoke the Gods of Nostalgia, poorly done with bad CGI, but it'll suck in the fans.
Anyways, it's Disney, it's for kids, it's exactly what you'd get if you crowdsourced a script for a Star Wars Fan Film, what amazes me is how many other adults are being sucked in by it.
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