April 2022 ⁂ Lower your expectations
Earlier this month we went on a road trip to Toronto to visit family. It was by far the longest time the 3 year old has spent in the car and he did really well. We resorted to the portable DVD player only in the last two hours on the way home.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the long hours in the driver's seat. The quieter moments allowed for some time to think, without screens or podcasts to distract myself. Here's to more of that.
On to the links...
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1. My recent posts
Please (don't) clap - Twitter as Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign.
When in doubt, lower your expectations - The parenting advice I got from my own parents.
Come as you are, but be ready to change - A philosophy for life.
Six movies at the end - On discovering a sad, sun-bleached relic of COVID-era Hollywood.
Favorite Films of 2001 - The top four are all-timers.
Fine free fate - Good things happen to libraries that abolish overdue fees.
2. From the interwebs
A digital clock assembled from Google Earth views that resemble numbers. NYPL has started digitizing its collection of early 1900s wax cylinder recordings. Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid. My new favorite movie-based Wordle spinoff: Moviedle.
3. Currently
📖 A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance by William Manchester
📺 Winning Time and The Batman on HBO Max
🎧 Haydn's String Quartets Op.33 by the Coull Quartet
4. Quote
“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” - William Martin
5. Question
What's something you were super wrong about?
— Chad
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Photo: While the 3 year old was playing with bubbles in the backyard I managed to get a few decent shots of bubbles mid-air, creating a cool perspective-shifting focus effect.