March 2022 ⁂ Be like daylilies
We planted some daylilies in our front yard last fall. They just barely started peeking out of the dormant earth in early March and have been growing slowly and resolutely ever since. Our 3 year old likes to check on them and call them "cuties", as in, "Oh, look at the little cuties growing!"
Spring in Chicagoland is mercurial, with dramatic weather shifts and temperature swings. (It snowed again yesterday.) But throughout it all the daylilies have continued to grow, because that's what they do.
Let's be more like daylilies.
On to the links...
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1. My recent posts
Long live the limited podcast series - Official companion podcasts to TV shows are the new DVD commentaries.
Recent Views - Snapshots from spring-ish walks and beyond.
Courage and camaraderie in Band of Brothers - An appreciation of the HBO miniseries and its 20th anniversary podcast.
The Rockefeller theory of time travel - We're all wealthier than John D. Rockefeller.
Connect 4 with a 3 year old - What happens when you try to play a game with a toddler.
2. From the interwebs
Abraham Lincoln and the telegraph (which he called "lightning messages"). Cruise around Google Maps with Driving Simulator. Framed is Wordle for movies. 100 easy ways to slightly improve your life.
3. Recommendation
Two new and exceptional performers on the current season of Saturday Night Live:
James Austin Johnson, who took over impersonating both Biden and Trump from two A-list movie stars (Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey respectively) and blew them both out of the water. Watch his Biden cold open and his Trump on Jeanine Pirro.
Please Don't Destroy, a comedy trio making digital shorts with impeccable chemistry and comedic timing. Watch Three Sad Virgins and We Got Her a Cat to start.
4. Quote
“It is not enough to have learned, for living is sharing and I must offer what I have for whatever it is worth.” – Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
5. Question
If you had unlimited resources, what frivolous thing would you collect? (Reply to this email to share.)
— Chad
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Photo: My 3 year old has only two speeds on our neighborhood "walks": sprinting and completely still.