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Belated felicitations!

How was it? I love this book.

I need to get on this. FYI @gracepanetta.bsky.social

At first reading I thought it was a “controversial afterword” and I was like 🌶️ 🍵 👀! But truly I look forward to your “conversational afterword.” 💛

So much good insight here. Also crying, to which I am generally disposed.

I gave this to my brother, but I don’t have my own copy. Sounds like I need to fix that.

Oh cool. I don’t know this one!

Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m

I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Words of praise, including “There’s no better gift you could have given us all.”

So honored by this delightful tribute from one of my true heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social to Northeast Wilderness Trust as we attain the milestone of 100,000 forever-wild acres conserved. 🌲 🫎

Look At Me is a real favorite of mine.

美味しそう、Aiさん、美味しそう！

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The Polite

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The rule clearly states that people with sweet little nicknames are drawn to books about people with sweet little nicknames.

You had me at Piffy.

The ending!

Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!

Kassabova! I’m so out of the loop. Thank you for sharing.

Whatever it is, I will get my paws on it instanter.

Book cover: Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell

Mail carrier brought this gem today. Thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social. Can you imagine asking Keynes for advice on your 401k?

Just finished her audiobook reading of Cranford. Splendid. Also recommend her reading of The Railway Children.

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Paging the STW hive, esp. @nonsuchbook.bsky.social!
@backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.

The news is all terrible, but the Post Office’s new baby wild animals stamps are good.

Perfect listen for a summer drive about a perfect summer book. I especially loved @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social idea about “the excess of possibility” that suffuses the web of life. Still thinking about that. 🎧📚

Pieces of a dead birch tree arranged to form the peace sign on the floor of a forest in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA

Seen on my hike today. Peace.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...