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We knew not what the day had done—done for us at Trafalgar
I have voted. I hope it does what I want it to. Forward the ethical artichoke, and everything else from the garden we can get.
(And for God's sake, if you live in Massachusetts, when November comes vote yes on Question 3.)
I find the burning of the National Museum of Brazil almost numbing to think about, like the looting fifteen years ago of the National Museum of Iraq, the destruction of Syrian archaeological sites since then. So much time, so much survival by chance and care, so much knowledge and history and so much tangible past, gone. I saw a claim that the only object known to have survived the fire in the building itself was the Bendegó meteorite, which had already withstood the heat of atmospheric entry.
The past should be remembered. I read about the man who tends the graves of the Triangle Shirtwaist dead: "I made promises to these people." It makes sense to me.
(And for God's sake, if you live in Massachusetts, when November comes vote yes on Question 3.)
I find the burning of the National Museum of Brazil almost numbing to think about, like the looting fifteen years ago of the National Museum of Iraq, the destruction of Syrian archaeological sites since then. So much time, so much survival by chance and care, so much knowledge and history and so much tangible past, gone. I saw a claim that the only object known to have survived the fire in the building itself was the Bendegó meteorite, which had already withstood the heat of atmospheric entry.
The past should be remembered. I read about the man who tends the graves of the Triangle Shirtwaist dead: "I made promises to these people." It makes sense to me.
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And blessings on Michael Hirsch
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Almost no one I voted for won! But it is important to participate. It is important not to sit local politics out.
And blessings on Michael Hirsch
I am glad he does what he does. It's what people should do for each other, even when the others are not alive to know.
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“Ironically,” he says, “many of the people who damaged this history are my heroes. Newman and I would have had a lot in common politically, but she’s the one who corrupted the story.”
Reminds me a little of the reporting around the murder of Kitty Genovese, much of which has since been debunked, but which did result in the creation of 911.
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I read it when it came out, but I still have a clear picture of its accompanying art, and its ending.
Reminds me a little of the reporting around the murder of Kitty Genovese, much of which has since been debunked, but which did result in the creation of 911.
If you haven't read it, there's an excellent book about just that: Marcia M. Gallo's "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (2015). I believe it's where I learned about Genovese's girlfriend, with whom she was living at the time of the murder and who is still alive.
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Thank you.
*hugs*