Emotional support ferrets - how is such a hyper species emotionally supportive? That owner appears calm by comparison?

Like Randall Jarrell’s “the bat poet”

(peeked ahead & found Waldo et al)

I stan your increased popularity, but
folks should show up to class on time
for such an info-packed session

From the book’s introduction, Professor Cohn’s cartoon of himself walking into a nearly empty lecture hall; I see this more favorably, anticipated as room for the author to draw us and an open triangle of space for his signature

Will you be drawing caricatures of the fans in the empty seats? (Many of us are real but virtual)

Photo of my greying black dog sniffing the Professor’s latest & greatest publication

New book smell!

We were warned, but chose the field that suited our personality… Heaven help us when our bodies fail & we are met boring bots at our time of need

My tired noggin
is already tickled by
your book’s existence

Thank you for the immeasurable time, insight, patience, & brainpower it took to bring us this understanding

-waiting by my 📪

Frozen mixed vegetables
are cheap,
look like candy, &
feels like mischief
(when grabbed by the handful
still frozen in the bag)

Costco’s 10 packs of edamame
keep my lunch bag cool &
are ready whenever, even raw

Happy Bookday!!

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Photo of black ski jacket with an irregular patten of white polygons, filled with gray scale dots… reminded me too much of Professor Sousanis’ pages connecting the history and current images of astronomy, Primo Levi’s Carbon chapter, and arm histology (the actual spread would take thousands of word to describe)

There are no coincidences?

At Telluride today,
I rode a ski lift
with a guy in this jacket
& found myself showing your Nostos spread to total strangers
(He was ok with my taking a photo,
but I felt better justifying my enthusiasm)

Alas, the “old jacket is from a company that went out of business”

✅ ✅ 🙏

Done & done, thank you!
&, interestingly:
_ live here permanently_ link
goes to “Education - Home”

as it should… There’s no place
like [an educated] home

Man ponders if he is still a good person if helping others benefits him. The universe answers and tells him: 'Be kind, I don't care why'

Keep eating healthy & exercising,
publish a perfect-enough Nostos,
& you can write [insert neologism]
{AKA Parenting: A Hero’s Journey}
in time for the grandkids

Avatar & the illusion of self
Arete & the quest
Hamartia & villain backstories
Icarus & other fallen heroes

Looking forwards!

@GaryLarson visionary

How do you keep track
of which jokes you told to whom?
Do you keep having to make new material?

A fun part of EM is being able to tell the same jokes again & again, getting a “tighter set” over the years 😂

The NICU isn’t ripe for comedy &
even geriatrics can’t pull this off!

A primitive cartoon I sketched to communicate to patients that it is normal to be achy after exertion: Wonder Woman, with messy hair, tiara off to the side says, “I’m just all out of wonder today.” From the cozy Bat-bed, our masked hero says, “ Sorry Alfred, I just can’t.” In a corner, a spider says, “I just can’t Man-Up.” A fourth spent hero lays face-down on the bottom, mostly covered by a cape which reads, “I’m always Super, but sometimes I’m Super tired.”

Good to see that the
Spider-verse has rehab, they
are mostly human

Photo of sign in restaurant bathroom, “employees must wash hands,” also has the silhouette of 6 bubbles adjacent to an open hand. But the bubbles look like two eyes and a surprised mouth on either side of the hand, which makes me worry that if the employees washed their faces, they would disappear, like the Cheshire Cat

#FacesInThings

For me, Costco was the least expensive option

Juggling scarves weigh nothing,
so I bring them along even w/o kids

My copies “shipped yesterday”

I’m especially looking forward to
how you weave all the 🤩 snippets
into the storyline, that it will be even
>>> the sum of its parts (as are you)

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True, in every path of life.
AI can even take away the ability of trained, experienced doctors to diagnose:

Perfectly proving your point,
that it’s all about the journey

Alt-text revealed the subtle “?”
can be more clear in final version

The idea/message/font are yours,
the spirit is a bit Grant Snyder,
but he doesn’t own it; kinda like making your own The Far Side gag

wish I could take the class

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Silly Laura replied to self:

I’m having fun with this,
not meaning to be picky,
just wondered

Do you want the learner’s path to end at the B or maybe a different B’?

The wavy part in the beginning to suggest a human face in profile?

Your sketch, punintended, is iconic

I’m having fun with this,
not meaning to be picky

Do you want the learner’s path to end at the B or maybe a different B’?

The wavy part in the beginning to suggest a human face in profile?

Your sketch, punintended, is iconic

Yeah, so concisely:
Anything that … robs you
(I’m concerned for 2x negative)

Also, what if the starburst at the end was more like fireworks, representing the joyous feeling of a brain being tickled?
I read it with an NPR accent:
“for THIS… is learning.”

& it’s already 👍

Without robbing you?
Or
Anything that does this for you?