Sunday, September 15, 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Come From Away

The kids and I thought it was sweet, and Nu and I listened to a few songs later. But I could sense Big A's irritation all show long--it was kind of low-key amusing.
On the walk back, Big A (rightly) complained about how one of the few people of color in the show was made to "talk like he was from Wakanda."
The kids and I were chuckling over this, and one of them said so *kindly and indulgently* "Dad's kinda cynical, no."
Yes.
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Friday, September 13, 2019
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The Only Plane in the Sky
I'm usually wary of 9/11 and the way it can be weaponized against people of color, but today I was listening to Garrett M. Graff talk about his oral history. He rightly made the point about how it was the second plane that destroyed American innocence since apparently, everyone including Robert Mueller assumed the first one was an accident.
It was the sheer randomness of death, however, that was crisis-level terrifying. He tells a story of someone who went back to his hotel room at the Marriott to change his shirt so he could wear the tie a colleague had just given him... and he survives, while the colleague who went on to the meeting he was expected at, in the second tower, does not.
A dear student's sibling passed away (after we had just talked *about* them just a few days prior) so this thing has been on mind a little extra these weeks...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Monday, September 09, 2019
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