“Surprisingly, bonsai began in China around 2000 years ago and were brought to Japan and Korea where it was developed into the Japanese art form we know today. Typically kept under four feet in height, bonsai translates from Japanese to “tree planted in a container.” Common bonsai species include Ficus, Juniper and Japanese maple, but there are hundreds of trees that can be grown and refined into bonsai!” By Greta Engel I did have a Bonsai once— it’s definately an art to care for the beautiful plant.

Voted for my favorite Bonsai 🤍

Loving this new Ryan Bloom translation of The Complete Notebooks — and I did notice Nostr translation (amazing)

I can’t stop thinking about this: “A seasoned trial lawyer, Mr. Pollack, 61, has had prominent clients involved in complicated international cases, including Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was accused by U.S. authorities of illegally disseminating information related to national security.”

Maduro Is the Latest High-Profile Client for His Lawyer, Barry Pollack

Mr. Pollack has also represented Julian Assange and an official of Enron.

An alluring Irish voice narrates the audible — just saying. I read it last year— love rereading & listening. It’s about 2 brothers and the women they love. One brother is a chess genius who falls in love for the first time and his older lawyer brother who loves a college student and his ex girlfriend at the same time— his ex can’t be intimate in certain ways anymore due to a terrible accident.

“Redefine all those blues…” ~Taylor Swift🔥🍯

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“Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.” ~Edward Albee

Hi ☺️ “I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.” ~William Butler Yeats

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Happy Heavenly Birthday Lee Miller 💙🙏🏻

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Hope all is well 🪽

Have a good one Nostr… getting started on some holiday #reading tonight.

The Chapter

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismShortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyA history of the c...

“Eliza Griswold is a poet and reporter whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the New Republic. Her books include the poetry collection Wideawake Field (2007) and the non-fiction title The Tenth Parallel (2010), which examines Christianity and Islam in Asia and Africa. In 2010, Griswold won the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for her poetry, and in 2011, The Tenth Parallel received the Anthony J. Lukas award. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, Griswold is currently a senior fellow at the New American Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.”

Eliza Griswold | The Poetry Foundation

“The first person is often excised from journalism, which is one of Griswold’s many mediums; she recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” a work of nonfiction centered on life in a small Appalachian town. She has also written and theorized about the hot zone between the equator and the tenth parallel, and recorded the poetry of Pashtun women in Afghanistan. Where Griswold’s journalism is immersive and adventurous, “First Person” is wry and intimate, sophisticated and all her own—imagining the adventure that is being.” —Kevin Young #poetry

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“First Person”

A poet’s “I” is not herself.

Always loved this poem for the matrix sound. SINGER FUTURA I is instinct gone awry. Sugar, speed, near death, she loved to limn oblivion, thrived off the grid, since the grid was fraught with dead ideas of what a life should be. In her inherited America, mothers don't risk their skins. They monogram and fold. ~Eliza Griswold The mysteries of a comma #poetry #poem

Lunch quote; Lunch break & bored— so I’m rereading a section of Bostrom’s book— obviously comprehending this from a philosophical point of view vs. someone who creates in the field— but I find it deeply engrossing. “Another point, which counts against some types of oracles and genies, is that there are risks involved in designing a superintelligence to have a final goal that does not fully match the outcome that we ultimately seek to attain. For example, if we use a domesticity motivation to make the superintelligence want to minimize some of its impacts on the world, we might thereby create a system whose preference ranking over possible outcomes differs from that of the sponsor. The same will happen happen if we build the AI to place a peculiarly high value on answering questions correctly, or on faithfully obeying individual commands. Now, if sufficient care is taken, this should not cause any problems: there would be sufficient agreement between the two rankings—at least insofar as they pertain to possible worlds that have a reasonable chance of being actualized—that the outcomes that are good by the AI’s standard are also good by the principal’s standard. But perhaps one could argue for the design principle that it is unwise to introduce even a limited amount of disharmony between the AI’s goals and ours. (The same concern would of course apply to giving sovereigns goals that do not completely harmonize with ours.)” https://a.co/ds1tjc9