Falling in Love

Because love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. These are emotions that are unleashed at first sight, but they do not constitute love. I wish the whole world knew that fact. These temporary feelings differ from love in that they place the spotlight on the one experiencing them. 'What is happening to Me? This is the most fantastic thing I've ever been through! I think I am in love!'

You see, these emotions are selfish in the sense that they are motivated by our own gratification. They have little to do with the new lover. Such a person has not fallen in love with another person; he has fallen in love with love! And there is an enormous difference between the two.

Real love, in contrast to popular notions, is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is an intense awareness of his or her needs and longings for the past, present and future. It is unselfish and giving and caring. And believe me these are not attitudes one 'falls' into at first sight, as though he were tumbling into a ditch.

James Dobson, Emotions, Can You Trust Them?

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Dec 11

***JOURNALISM

Race to fill local newsrooms https://www.axios.com/race-to-fill-local-newsrooms-28d95883-1378-4301-9263-ff4f3590c395.html

How a San Diego newspaper reporter helped expose Rep. Duncan Hunter's corruption https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/duncan-hunter-san-diego-reliable-sources/index.html

Justices debate allowing state law to be “hidden behind a pay wall” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/justices-debate-allowing-state-law-to-be-hidden-behind-a-pay-wall

Scripted KUSI Interview with Duncan Hunter Debated by Journalism, PR Pros https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2019/12/04/scripted-kusi-interview-with-duncan-hunter-debated-by-journalism-pr-pros/

Journalist group condemns governor's method of demanding retraction from Indianapolis Star https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/journalist-group-condemns-governor-s-method-of-demanding-retraction-from/article_30241622-4805-5421-acc1-f812371e21c5.html

How phones are reshaping how we interact with the news https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/12/08/how-phones-are-reshaping-how-we-interact-with-the-news.cnn/video/playlists/video-day-top-5/

Georgia man identified as runner who slapped TV reporter on backside: He’s a youth pastor at a Methodist Church https://nypost.com/2019/12/10/runner-who-slapped-reporters-butt-on-live-tv-identified-as-youth-minister/

China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt are world's worst jailers of journalists https://cpj.org/reports/2019/12/journalists-jailed-china-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt.php

Atlanta newspaper sues Clint Eastwood over film's portrayal of reporter https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/10/atlanta-newspaper-ajc-sues-clint-eastwood-olivia-wilde-reporter-richard-jewell-film

Greta Thunberg is TIME's Person of the Year https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/

News podcasts go mainstream https://www.axios.com/news-podcasts-pulitzer-prize-audio-journalism-65b0e234-2606-47bd-8c7e-0adffb0f7f1a.html

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Google's next local news investment is in Oakland https://www.axios.com/google-berkeleyside-oakland-local-news-media-f72053ef-88f9-49ce-b21f-48aa99e95768.html

Traffic tools help publishers go viral https://www.axios.com/big-tech-publishers-data-viral-stories-google-2945cde6-3de0-488d-b7e4-f4159870b066.html

***STUDENT MEDIA

CU Student Newspaper Gets Cut https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/09/cu-independent-university-colorado-student-mediaommunication-and-information/

Central Washington University Board of Trustees student representative proposed defunding student media https://cwuobserver.com/14158/news/board-of-trustees-student-representative-proposed-defunding-student-media/

At least 30 people said they never spoke to ex-Daily Texan reporter accused of making up quotes https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/at-least-30-people-said-they-never-spoke-to-ex-daily-texan-reporter-accused-of-making-up-quotes/

***FAKES

China makes it a criminal offense to publish deepfakes or fake news without disclosure https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/29/20988363/china-deepfakes-ban-internet-rules-fake-news-disclosure-virtual-reality

Politicians Are Getting in Trouble Over Fake Qualifications https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/politicians-are-getting-into-trouble-over-fake-qualifications

Singapore’s fake news law should be a warning to American lawmakers https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/12/3/20991422/singapore-fake-news-law-censorship-politics-usa

I Worked for Alex Jones https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infowars.html

Samoa arrests anti-vaxxer amid measles epidemic https://www.dw.com/en/samoa-arrests-anti-vaxxer-amid-measles-epidemic/a-51553140

Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool? https://www.propublica.org/article/why-are-cops-around-the-world-using-this-outlandish-mindreading-tool

Overlooked No More: Rose Mackenberg, Houdini’s Secret ‘Ghost-Buster’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/obituaries/rose-mackenberg-overlooked.html

Everyone Involved In The Viral GoFundMe Scam Involving A Homeless Man Giving A Woman His Last $20 Has Now Pleaded Guilty https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/man-pleads-guilty-viral-gofundme-scam-homeless

***SOCIAL MEDIA

TikTok accused in California lawsuit of sending user data to China https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-lawsuit/tiktok-accused-in-california-lawsuit-of-sending-user-data-to-china-idUSKBN1Y708Q

The newest strategy for marketing to young people is stealing their jokes. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/12/why-brands-steal-viral-jokes-and-memes/603169/

***GRAMMAR

Apostrophe campaign ends due to 'ignorance and laziness' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-50602665

Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-12-09/merriam-webster-2019-word-of-year-they

***LANGUAGE

Argentine teenagers rewrite the rules of language to eliminate gender https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/05/teens-argentina-are-leading-charge-gender-neutral-language/

The Hawaiian language nearly went extinct. Now it’s being taught in dozens of immersion schools https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/12/how-hawaiian-language-was-saved-extinction/603097/

The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-language-you-speak-influences-where-your-attention-goes/

***LITERATURE

Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614742/machine-learning-has-revealed-exactly-how-much-of-a-shakespeare-play-was-written-by-someone/

Without women the novel would die https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/07/why-women-love-literature-read-fiction-helen-taylor

Nobel literature winner dreams of a new narrative style https://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20191207/AP/312079950

***POETRY

Developing a Strong Poetic Voice Can Be Uncomfortable for the Poet https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/developing-a-strong-poetic-voice-can-be-uncomfortable-for-the-poet#.XeXwST-Ibn4

Poems on how to write poems: Why you should read this award-winning poet's latest book https://www.edexlive.com/people/2019/dec/03/poems-on-how-to-write-poems-why-you-should-read-this-award-winning-poets-latest-book-9377.html

How standardized education tortures all meaning out of studying poetry (opinion) https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/12/03/how-standardized-education-tortures-all-meaning-out-of-studying-poetry/

Best poetry of 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/30/best-poetry-of-2019

Three new poetry collections grapple with injustice, grief — and the nature of truth https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/three-new-poetry-collections-grapple-with-injustice-grief--and-the-nature-of-truth/2019/12/09/2a005c50-f68d-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

A decade of instapoets and what they mean for poetry https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/decade-instapoets-and-what-they-mean-poetry

***FILM

Filmmakers Sue Over Visa Social Media Disclosure Requirement https://www.courthousenews.com/filmmakers-sue-over-visa-social-media-disclosure-requirement/

***PRIVACY & SECURITY

Government may require U.S. citizens on international flights to be photographed at airports https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-03/us-proposal-photograph-citizens-airports

Happiness Depends

Happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born Dec. 11, 1918)

Self-respect

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.  -Abraham J. Heschel

Abandoned by God

Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, if you turn to Him then with praise,  you will be welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting an double bolting from the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away.  -CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

Living on Past Victories

Never take it for granted that your past successes will continue into the future. Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different and you cannot assume what worked before will work today. You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present. Your tendency to fight the last war may lead to your final war.

Robert Green, The 33 Strategies of War

you are going to die

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. -Steve Jobs

Progressive Inhibition

As John Mazziotta the neurologist at UCLA said, “People don’t realize that the brain is really an inhibition machine.” Mazziotta pulled out a neurology textbook with pictures of a woman kneeling and praying next to a man who was also kneeling and praying. The woman, Mazziotta explained, had suffered brain damage and could no longer inhibit certain actions. She had not the slightest interest in kneeling and praying at that moment, but she could not stop herself from doing what brains want to do, imitate the action they see, like a monkey behind the glass at a zoo, making faces back at you. 

Another thing to remember, Mazziotta said, is that many of the brain’s systems are running all the time. “Think of an airplane,” said Mazziotta. “Most people think that when it lands it has its engines on low and it’s just floating in. But that’s not always so; in landing, an airplane often has to be at full throttle in case it has to react quickly if something happens.” The brain, too he says, is set up to be whirring all the time. Even when we think of it as resting, its neurons are often firing at a low level, ready and waiting, so it can react in time before, for instance, it’s eaten by a bigger, quicker brain.

The brain is working constantly, and one of the tasks it works at is to inhibit itself from a variety of actions. It is striving to resist the urge to raise the coffee cup like the guy across the table, and striving not to do a number of things that might not be in its best interest. As the brain develops- in children and, science is now learning, in teenagers- it is this very inhibition machinery that is being fine-tuned. 

“Development,” says Mazziotta, “is progressive inhibition.”

Barbara Strauch, The Primal Teen

Preach the gospel

Preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words -St. Francis of Assisi

Hurting from Loss

Love anything that lives—a person, a pet, a plant—and it will die. Trust anybody and you may be hurt; depend on anyone and that one may let you down. The price of cathexis (letting something or someone become important to us) is pain. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all. The attempt to avoid legitimate suffering lies at the root of all emotional illness.

M Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Dec 1

***HIGHER ED

How activists at one college are getting out information out about what they claim is a poorly operated institution https://www.boldlybankrupt.com/

Parents ‘bigger problem’ than essay mills (sub. req’ed) https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mums-and-dads-bigger-problem-essay-mills

Colleges Struggling to Keep Up with Student Mental Health Needs https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/mental-health/college-student-mental-health-needs/

More college students are seeking help for mental health, but what happens when there aren't enough counselors? https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/education/4794643-More-college-students-are-seeking-help-for-mental-health-but-what-happens-when-there-arent-enough-counselors

Why the Dept. of Ed decided to treat Grand Canyon University as a for-profit, even though it’s registered with the IRS as a non-profit https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/11/30/no-the-irs-does-not-make-a-college-a-non-profit/

***HIGHER ED & CRIME 

ICE arrests 90 more foreign students at fake university created by DHS in Michigan https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/27/university-farmington-ice-arrests-more-fake-michigan-college/4317788002/

US Man Allegedly Plotted ISIS-Style Attack After Suspension From Colleges https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-tried-enlist-isis-attack-colleges-suspended-expelled-him-n1091141

***HIGHER ED & FINANCE

Dawn Of The Dead: For Hundreds Of The Nation’s Private Colleges, It’s Merge Or Perish https://www.forbes.com/sites/schifrin/2019/11/27/dawn-of-the-dead-for-hundreds-of-the-nations-private-colleges-its-merge-or-perish/

University Reverses Its Decision to Stop Accepting Medicaid http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/11/27/byu-idaho-retracts-earlier-medicaid-decision

***HIGHER ED IN COURT

Settlement reached in suit over video captioning at Harvard https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/settlement-reached-suit-video-captioning-harvard-67347654

Supreme Court won't throw out climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation suit against National Review https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/politics/supreme-court-climate-scientist-michael-mann-national-review/index.html

Law School Donor Sues After Learning His Name Isn’t On Degrees The Law School Doesn’t Give https://abovethelaw.com/2019/11/law-school-donor-sues-after-learning-his-name-isnt-on-degrees-the-law-school-doesnt-give/

Yale University Employees file class-action lawsuit claiming the institution’s wellness programs violates federal law https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/employer-wellness-program-is-illegal-lawsuit-contends

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Academic freedom breached at Thompson Rivers University, investigation finds  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/academic-freedom-breached-thompson-rivers-university-1.5365146

Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/825026v1

Federal data show proportion of all instructors who work full-time is rising, even as total faculty workforce contracts slightly. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/27/federal-data-show-proportion-instructors-who-work-full-time-rising

Plagiarism charge against UCCS professor dismissed https://gazette.com/news/plagiarism-charge-against-uccs-professor-dismissed/article_dc62743a-1093-11ea-965c-87a5fa15141d.html

***RESEARCH 

On the troubling trail of psychiatry’s pseudopatients stunt https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03268-y

The Challenges of Sharing Data in an Era of Politicized Science https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756117

***STUDENT LIFE

Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html

WHO warns adolescents get too little exercise as screen time prevails https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/who-warns-adolescents-get-too-little-exercise-as-screen-time-prevails.html

Study: Students show ‘troubling’ lack of news literacy skills  https://newslit.org/updates/study-students-show-troubling-lack-of-news-literacy-skills/ 

Millennial and Gen Z Republicans stand out from their elders on climate and energy issues https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/25/younger-republicans-differ-with-older-party-members-on-climate-change-and-energy-issues/

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT 

Students Disrupt Philosophy Professor’s Course, Call For Resignation https://dailynous.com/2019/11/22/students-disrupt-philosophy-professors-course-call-resignation/

Exploiting the Exploited? Insiders Accuse Charity Of Cashing In On Sex Trafficking Concerns  https://www.nbcsandiego.com/investigations/Exploiting-the-Exploited-Insiders-Accuse-Charity-Of-Cashing-In-On-Sex-Trafficking-Concerns-565502951.html

Sadness

Sadness is a wall between two gardens. -Kahlil Gibran

The Pursuit

People pursue happiness, but it’s always temporary. Pursue meaning instead. -Emily Esfahani Smith  

Your Judgment

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. –Mark Twain (Born Nov. 30, 1835)

The Standard

The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other. But the standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others. 

Or put it this way. If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something-some Real Morality--for them to be true about. 

If the Rule of Decent Behaviour meant simply 'whatever each nation happens to approve,' there would be no sense in saying that any one nation had ever been more correct in its approval than any other; no sense in saying that the world could ever grow morally better or morally worse.

CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 29

***WRITING & READING 

The Weirdest Book Titles On Amazon https://www.sadanduseless.com/weird-amazon-books-list/

How do you cope with knowing that the project you poured years of your life into is not quite setting the world on fire? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/writing-is-tough-my-book-went-so-unnoticed-i-won-an-award-for-it

The Last Decade Has Been Tumultuous For The Publishing Industry https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782867252/the-last-decade-has-been-tumultuous-for-the-publishing-industry

Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books www.openculture.com/2019/11/prisons-around-the-u-s-are-banning-and-restricting-access-to-books.html

Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/29/handwriting-identifies-elizabeth-i-tacitus-translation

***JOURNALISM

New York Times dropping most social media trackers https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-social-media-trackers-47f547d5-a241-424a-a398-12344c78ac32.html  

Reporting That Hits People Where They Live — by Reporters Who Live There Too https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2019/11/14/new-generation-storytellers-changing-rules-abc

How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news https://lwlies.com/articles/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project-director-interview/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

5 Photojournalists Sue Homeland Security for First Amendment Violations https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/5-photojournalists-sue-homeland-security-for-first-amendment-violations.html

Americans favor mobile devices over desktops and laptops for getting news https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/19/americans-favor-mobile-devices-over-desktops-and-laptops-for-getting-news/ 

An Exhaustive Ranking of Movie Journalists  https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/11/25/20974644/movie-journalists-ranked  

***JOURNALISM & AI

The relationship of journalism to AI http://bit.ly/35z5F6s    

Relevance of AI in Accelerating Journalism and Newsroom Workflow https://www.analyticsinsight.net/relevance-ai-accelerating-journalism-newsroom-workflow/

Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/ai-ethics-journalism-and-computation-ibm-new-york-times.php

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

9 charts about America’s newsrooms https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/26/9-charts-about-americas-newsrooms/

Putting a price tag on local news https://knightfoundation.org/reports/putting-a-price-tag-on-local-news/

AP to add 14 statehouse reporters in collaboration with Report for America https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/ap-to-add-14-statehouse-reporters-in-collaboration-with-report-for-america

Portland Has Been Overcharging People for Public Records, Court Finds https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/11/19/27502241/portland-has-been-overcharging-people-for-public-records-court-finds

***STUDENT MEDIA

Student reporters at BYU-Idaho allegedly pressured not to publish negative stories https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/11/student-reporters-at-byu-idaho-allegedly-pressured-not-to-publish-negative-stories/

High school journalists who fought censorship win award https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/11/25/burlington-high-schoolers-censorship-granted-journalism-award/4295236002  

Lawsuit pits father against daughter after article alleging sex abuse appears in UNC student newspaper  https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/no-turning-back-in-lawsuit-pitting-father-against-daughter-after/article_f093b659-134f-5fd8-a7ad-6b98c9f9be2f.html

***FAKE NEWS

The neuroscience of how fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories, and appeals to our emotions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/galaxy-brain-the-neuroscience-of-how-fake-news-grabs-our-attention-produces-false-memories-and-appeals-to-our-emotions/

Fake News Is Costing the World $78 Billion a Year https://cheddar.com/media/exclusive-fake-news-is-costing-the-world-billion-a-year

The Incredibly True Story of Fake Headlines https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredibly-true-story-of-fake-headlines/

Before Trump: the real history of fake news https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/factitious-taradiddle-dictionary-real-history-fake-news

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283 (video) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/cancel-culture-victims.html 

Facebook still isn’t clear about why it won’t take down false political ads https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/18/20970942/facebook-political-ads-policy-carolyn-everson-code-media   

‘This app is free and therapy is not’: Gen Z will keep using TikTok even if they don’t trust it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/15/this-app-is-free-therapy-is-not-gen-z-will-keep-using-tiktok-even-if-they-dont-trust-it/

TikTok Denies Censoring A Teen Who Criticized China's Concentration Camps — They Said They Banned Her After A Joke About Osama Bin Laden Thirst https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/teen-tik-tok-china-osama-bin-laden

Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-wont-delete-the-accounts-of-dead-people-for-now

***LANGUAGE

The Loudness Of Vowels Helps The Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/20/780988618/the-loudness-of-vowels-helps-the-brain-break-down-speech-into-syl-la-bles

‘Climate Emergency’ Is the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-11-20/climate-emergency-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year 

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?   https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/education/what-happens-when-college-students-discuss-lab-work-in-spanish-philosophy-in-chinese-or-opera-in-italian/2019/11/18/0eef3f7a-0985-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

***LITERATURE 

The 50 best nonfiction books of past 25 years  https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/50-best-nonfiction-books.html

Author hits back after library removes LGBT picture book from shelves  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/author-west-virginia-library-removes-lgbt-book-shelves-daniel-haack-prince-and-knight   

George Eliot translation of Spinoza sheds new light on her fiction  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/george-eliot-translation-of-spinoza-sheds-new-light-on-her-fiction

***POETRY

‘My cell is smaller than my size’ – how writing poetry saved a political prisoner (video) https://aeon.co/videos/my-cell-is-smaller-than-my-size-how-writing-poetry-saved-a-political-prisoner

Finding poetry in the letters of Vincent van Gogh https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/finding-poetry-in-the-letters-of-vincent-van-gogh-1.4090884   

Typewriter poet pounds out poems in 20 minutes https://www.ktre.com/2019/11/22/webxtra-typewriter-poet-pounds-out-poems-minutes/      

In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/style/in-the-woods-of-greenwich-a-studio-for-writing-poetry.html   

Don’t Let Your Children Become Insufferable Poets https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/future-humanities-science-education.html   

Gay Poet's Book Canceled Over Sexy Instagram Pictures https://www.out.com/books/2019/11/15/gay-poets-book-cancelled-over-sexy-instagram-pictures

Who’s More Qualified to Write About Death Than a Funeral Director Poet? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/books/review/the-depositions-thomas-lynch.html

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Key takeaways on Americans’ views about privacy, surveillance and data-sharing https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-about-privacy-surveillance-and-data-sharing/

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-force-child-porn-suspect-to-reveal-his-password-court-rules/

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How to Make Your Podcast Sound Like NPR  https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-podcast-sound-like-npr-1840048544

One of the toughest assignments

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.  -Fred Rogers

To be manifestly loved

To be manifestly loved, to be openly admired are human needs as basic as breathing. Why, then, wanting them so much ourselves, do we deny them so often to others?  -Arthur Gordon

Sometimes

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. -Winnie The Pooh