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I registered for this— but cannot attend because I’m meeting friends for dinner when it goes live. I’m hoping I can access the video later. Definitely want to read the book. The event is tonight— sharing here incase anyone is interested. #books

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Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic

Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am

A little earlier…. #sunrise ☀️

“And although he missed his daughter’s birth because he had been distracted on a birdwatching trip, he whimsically named her Fei-Fei. In Mandarin, fei means to fly. When rendered into a Chinese character, her name resembles a bird. “The highest compliment I can pay my father doubles as the most damning critique: that he’s exactly what would result if a child could design their ideal parent in the total absence of adult supervision,” Li writes.” #books — putting this on my to listen/read list The Worlds I See — keeping the human at the heart of AI

Client Challenge

I read & loved Kate Brigg’s *This Little Art* — and her new book looks lovely. May recommend it to my friends with young children— sharing here as well for the parents with young ones. #books #parenting “There are three things that all living persons have in common: a body, the certainty of eventual death, and the fact that someone once cared for you, effortfully and around the clock. In the beginning of your life, someone cared—used here to describe an action, not a feeling—enough to sustain that aliveness. We are each a monument, a memorial, to a tremendous amount of labor, done solely on our behalf, that we no longer recall. To paraphrase the child psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott: show me a baby, and I will show you someone nearby.” A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood

The New Yorker

A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood

In “The Long Form,” Kate Briggs turns the improvisational, immersive, sleep-deprived work of caring for a very young child into fiction.

Today was interesting — #Pittsburgh #Sunday 🍂📖

#poems #MurielRukeyser

The advantage of picking up a used copy of collected #poems are the intros. by scholars. Learned this about Muriel Rukeyser today 🍂📖 “We need look no further than the FBI file of more than 100 pages focused on Rukeyser, the agency's labeling of her as a 'concealed Communist’ (Dayton 12), or the House Un-American Activities Committee's censure of Sarah Lawrence College in November 1958 for employing her (Folsom 1) to appreciate the international reputation she earned as a powerful voice against the violence of war, poverty, racism…”

One #reading spot— started a #book Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli #November

Today was beautiful. A “Red Dress” art exhibit, almond croissants, perfect outdoor reading spots, leaves & warmth— enjoyed the weather. Here is one pic. #Pittsburgh #Autumn