đ rising waters.
on the agenda this week:Â unfilled spaces, âacqua altaâ, & how airplanes once appeared a distinct impossibility.
đ happy monday.
iâve just had my visa approved for a trip to a very. exciting. country. any guesses?
on the agenda this week:Â unfilled spaces, âacqua altaâ, & how airplanes once appeared a distinct impossibility.
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đ earworm: fka twigs.
âcalling my name, calling my name
taking the feeling of promethazine away.â
to paraphrase pitchfork:
âmagdaleneâ (fka twigsâ first album in four year) is a fucking revelation.
i never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing.
i never thought that my body could stop working to the point that i couldnât express myself physically in the ways that i have always loved and found so much solace.
i have always practiced my way into being the best i could be, but i couldnât do that this time, i was left with no option but to tear every process down.
but the process of making this album has allowed me for the first time, and in the most real way, to find compassion when i have been at my most ungraceful, confused and fractured. i stopped judging myself and at that moment found hope in âmagdaleneâ. to her i am forever grateful.- fka twigs.
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đ word of the week:
âlacunaâ.
an unfilled space; a gap.
attending to the mundane and the momentous, they punch in on the dark side of the clock, bridging the quiet lacuna between rush hours.
-Â david montgomery, "all in a night's work," washington post.
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outtakes from the twitter-sphere.
đ§ brain candy:
đŽđšÂ acqua alta.
veniceâa city that is particularly close to my heartâis flooding with increasing frequency & severity.
earlier this week, venice faced another monumental âacqua alta,â or âhigh water,â this time coming just inches shy of the 1966 record. dispatches from the scene described people tromping around in cheap rain boots as they walked single-file on footbridges elevated over flooded piazzas or waded through knee-high water. an estimated 70 percent of the city was submerged, and venetians endured another exceptional tide sunday, the ap reported.
âthe disaster that struck venice is a blow to the heart of our country,â italian prime minister giuseppe conte said in a statement wednesday. âit hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its commercial activities on its knees.âmichael oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at princeton university who has traveled to venice extensively, warned that if venice doesnât complete its already-delayed coastal defense system as sea levels rise, the city will become useless as a place for people to live and to enjoy its cultural splendors.
read more via the washington post.
đ five lessons from history.
lesson #4: progress happens too slowly for people to notice; setbacks happen too fast for people to ignore.
there are lots of overnight tragedies. there are rarely overnight miracles.
on january 5th, 1889, the detroit free press pushed back against the long-held dream that man could one day fly like a bird.
airplanes, the paper wrote, appear impossible: âthe smallest possible weight of a flying machine, with the necessary fuel and engineer, could not be less than 300 or 400 pounds ⌠but there is a low limit of weight, certainly not much beyond fifty pounds, beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. nature has reached this limit, and with her utmost effort has failed to pass it.â
six months later, orville wright dropped out of high school to help his brother, wilbur, tinker in their backyard shed to build a printing press. it was the brothersâ first joint project. it would not be their last.
if you had to make a list of the most important inventions of the 20th century, the airplane would be at least top five, if not number one. the airplane changed everything. it started world wars, it ended world wars. it connected the world, bridging gaps between cities and rural communities; oceans and countries.
read more via morgan housel.
thatâs all for this week.
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