In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia. Very powerful, a must read. @columbia docs.google.com/document/u/1/d…

Mind Rush

'Mental wellbeing' puts so much emphasis on 'recharging' and 'taking time for yourself' that it loosens the idea of the responsibility and duty to the other. There is a Golden Mean, and variability, but the sheer extent these ideas are propagated increase social fragmentation.

Israelis 🇮🇱 admitting that they are “white colonizers” 👇

Grant Wood - American Gothic

Georgia O'Keeffe - Sunset, Long Island

Spring walk

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
~ Wendell Berry

- Blue Ridge Parkway Sunset

“Charitably Inclined”, 1995
Kenton Nelson (American, b.1954)

Incredibly important finding! Researchers identify brainstem neurons that regulate immune activity via the vagus nerve, demonstrate that inflammation can turned off or on via activation or suppression of this neuronal population!

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Thomas Hardy’s Cottage. He was born in the upstairs bedroom closest to the door, and wrote Far From The Madding Crowd in the room with the roses below the window.

What *would* be a very reasonable question in an interview for academia, for someone very explicitly committed to some political causes, would be 'How would you teach and treat with appropriate respect a student whose political outlook is very different to your own?'

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

'Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.'

–Gary Snyder

Happy #StGeorgesDay ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

'It is inherent in human nature to consider a thing untrue if one does not like it.'

Sigmund Freud

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias,c, 1925 #WomensArt

The Farm (1958)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe