At film forum in NYC…

The wisdom of tea: “The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.”

“Building Empathy in a Fractured World”. Seems like a good time to read this….

Thich Nhat Hanh Way in upper Manhattan. 😎 🙏

You know your kids are in a good school when a senior administrator walks around offering you “pocket poems.” I picked two good ones. 🤓 🥰

I ❤️ my local NY public library (100th St between Columbus & Amsterdam). Wonderful service. Super clean and warm. Stewarded by caring and kind staff here. 🤓 📚 🥰

I mention I missed someone today and was sent this Sesame Street video with Andrew Garfield. How lovely. 🥲 youtu.be/EVlXbiP4x2E?...

With so many posts about libraries in my feed I thought I would share the latest book I borrowed…about a library. “What you are looking for is in the library” So true… 📚 🇯🇵🤓.

TIL that “sitting in the catbird seat” has nothing to do with a cat. (I used the expression with my daughter, who looked at me like I’m a living anachronism, and realized I didn’t know where the expression came from.) What other wondrous surprises await me? 🤓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird...

One of the first Gmail ads I might be interested in. Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦 👏 🥰

'Spring has returned: the Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart' — Rainer Maria Rilke

Cultural differences summed up as we pack snacks for the plane ✈️ PBJ for me. 🥜 🇺🇸 Rice balls for my wife. 🍙 🇯🇵 🥰

Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.

On 🎯.

Bless the good people who put dinosaur tracks in wet cement on 95th Street, leading from their front door. 🥰 🦖 Makes me smile every time I walk by. 😊

“‘Cathy, I’m lost,’ I said, though I knew she was sleeping. ‘I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.’” This lyric is 57 years old, and yet it captures the poignant despair of so many men today. HT @forgottenpoets.bsky.social for attuning me to poetry in life. 🙏 music.apple.com/us/album/ame...

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Love, euphoria, and tragedy all in six lines.

Just started this and it’s fantastic. Insightful, useful, and very funny.

Chilling. I’ve heard this from friends who work in universities, NGOs, and non-profits.

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Nikita Gill.

We may succeed (by some measures) on our own, but “all flourishing is mutual.” HT to the NY Public Library for this book. A nice weekend read. 🤓

This I love. And resemble more each day.

I’ve done this (after, I admit, checking that no one was watching). Worked like a charm. 🌲 🌳 😊

Beautiful. Loneliness can be a world-class marathoner. As are self-doubt, fear, anxiety, and sadness. But oh to occasionally leave them “panting behind you on some street corner”! “A victory!” indeed.

“Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that comforts us.”

I found this fascinating. Not just for the stories and science and de Waal’s insights and personal charm, but for how polarized the review comments are. IMHO it’s useful to examine our closest evolutionary relatives’ gender differences and similarities as a backdrop to our own.

Love this!!!!

“Who paid the bill?” Indeed.

“I will see you out among the stars.” 🥰

“We would feast on apple-inspired fare.” 🍎

Research for “The Best of Men” program I’m working on. 🤓🤓🤓

Insightful interview with an evolutionary anthropologist and author of “Life of Dads”, Dr. Anna Manchin, on men and fatherhood. Fascinating. youtu.be/4vN8XfMlWxI?...

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

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“We estimate that 3 % of the total U.S. adult population & 15 % of the African American adult male population has ever been to prison; people with felony convictions account for 8 % of all adults & 33 % of the African American adult male population.” (2010 data) www.publicwelfare.org/wp-content/u...

Incarceration numbers so high you think, “This can’t possibly be true!” And yet it is. Source: Men without Work by Nicholas Eberstadt.

“Finally I saw that the worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning. And sang.” Amen.

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Oh man, this really got me. 😭❤️

This platform is a wonderful serendipity engine for discovering beautiful poems I would never in a million years find on my own. Like this one.

Not exactly the most uplifting reading, but important data and perspectives nonetheless.

Great conversation between @christineemba.bsky.social & Chris Williamson on why so many men are struggling (as evidenced by a wide range of measures from deaths of despair to education to how they vote). youtu.be/cWnEaU1TXDw?...

This documentary puts human faces on the challenges faced by working class families. It’s gut-wrenching to watch. And things have only gotten worse since it was released in 2013.

A nice pairing. 🤓 HT @aibm.bsky.social

The combination of a lack of belonging and a lack of self-efficacy is proving fatal for many, many men.