Thank you! I was having a stressful day yesterday and took 15 mins to write and it made me feel much better. 🩷
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Thank you! I was having a stressful day yesterday and took 15 mins to write and it made me feel much better. 🩷
Yes. Sulayem was definitely redacted in the original release.
Yes. Even if they knew the reading I was teaching, they wouldn’t know what I said about it.
If you haven’t seen his TED talk on creativity, it’s of the same vein and equally inspiring
Yup. Rather embarrassing to debase yourself for a dude who can’t even be bothered to remember your name.
I lived in Charlotte during the 2002 ice storm. No power for a week. And locked myself out of the house in 2004 when there was over a foot of snow. Fun times!
I popped into the conservative thread on reddit yesterday to look at the response and was surprised. Everyone was against it. Puzzled. Etc.
I actually think they hate themselves the most and they take their inferiority out on everyone else.
Not nearly enough!
Thank you! It was a little flashlight in my inbox yesterday morning.
rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward, and the spirit of a sycophant.” He goes on to compare the King to Satan and calling England a bunch of rapists. “The robber and the murderer would often escape unpunished, did not the injuries which our tempers sustain provoke us into justice.”
a parent or child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then are you not a judge to those who have. But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers, then you are unworthy of the name husband, father, friend, or lover, and whatever may be your
Maybe you are lucky not to currently be affected, maybe you haven’t yet lost a love one… and then he moves in for his mic drop: “hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie in or bread to live on? Have you lost
Children, etc. before ratcheting up the emotional appeals. “It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of present sorrow (Boston in this case); the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.”
He anticipates the audience’s reasons to be reluctant (uncertainty about the future, trade prospects, tradition) and refutes them all. “The same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.” He goes on to build his case - England as a liability, think of your
Paine writes: “Arms as a last resource decide the contest; the appeal was the choice of the King, and the continent has accepted the challenge.” A reminder that the decision has been made for them by their Government. He goes on to say that non-action will only go on to cause wounds to fester.
Paine writes: “the cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind… the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected.” This is both a throwback to John Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity and a call to look to the future.
Today marks the 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, generally recognized for changing public sentiment toward breaking with England. It’s a masterclass in building argument and engaging with your audience. Seems as important today as it did then.
A large blue box with arm holes and a face hole cut out. Paper on top reads AI Dunce Cap
Walked into my office today to find my officemate’s AI Dunce Cap. I guess he makes students wear it??
WTF. That photo choice is something. Are they suggesting women should be caged??
I have always given paper midterms and finals in my lit classes. It works.
Yes. In their ad, they make an “optimized study plan” for a student … and send her to the library. Revolutionary!
Pecan Tassies are awesome. As are mini cheesecakes.
A couple of favorites I teach — Bullhead by Leigh Allison Wilson. leighallisonwilson.com/2014/10/16/u...
Sleeping by Katherine Weber www.vestalreview.net/sleeping
Let X by Chad Simpson fictionaut.com/stories/chad...
And The Hobblers by Dan Chaon www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...
Ain’t it the truth. For 26 we’re going to have Tubs running for Gov, McCarron for LG, and Finebaum for Senate. 🥴
Wrong team!
I don’t know why he thought having a press conference in front of all those empty stairs was a good look. It makes them look even smaller and lonelier.
Alabama has a state law barring “divisive topics”
He’s now free to have more date nights at Mar-a-Lago
Even snails get where they’re going, I say to myself as I open my manuscript…