I read a thing once, I think maybe by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com? saying grief is like a form of emotional scurvy. Healing is always an ongoing process. Where do I get the emotional equivalent of vitamin C

folks may benefit from reading this first, because it’s what the WaPo article is responding to (it is linked in the WaPo article)

I am super into this stuff! I now also think there are prepositions and things that look like prepositions but aren’t really. Maybe actually from studying Spanish?? where verbs don’t “need” prepositions the way they often do in English. Like buscar = to look for, mirar = to look (at)

I am wondering if some of it is just a weird numbers situation—a LOT of people attend university now which means in absolute terms a large number of students might be disengaged even if percentage-wise they’re a small minority

When my job was teaching 10yos to play violin I noticed many wanted to play violin, not learn to play violin—no concept of process. This is fine for kids at age 10 but I feel like so much adult behavior now is like this. People want a credential or job title and don’t want to actually DO the thing!

Maybe it’s just who I follow but I do not see authors pretending anything! So many are entirely honest about day jobs and family support and how publishing works. I know some claim a false independence but telling them to “stop pretending” seems unlikely to work and undermines the honest ones!

Only related to this thread via music, but I think you would enjoy this video!

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The combo of sound recording + internet means we can now access ENORMOUS variety of music extremely easily! But one trade-off is that we are sometimes less sensitive to tiny differences than people would have been in the past, when steeped in a much narrower repertoire

I haven’t checked on this recently, but I believe there’s a theory now that (hearing) babies basically all have absolute pitch, but most “lose” it in favor of attending to relative pitch.

It’s a third option: she was wrong. I believe that she experienced it, but the mappings are not the same for all singers, just like people with grapheme-color synesthesia don’t agree on all the colors. There may have been ~17thC communities who did mostly agree on key qualities but we do not now

doesn’t have to go anywhere near the edges of someone’s range to make a difference! though it can be harder to hear than to feel as the singer. If it’s just singing the same song in a different key a small interval away, hearing it differently is kinda like synesthesia.

a) how words make us feel things is mostly not in the words; it’s in our knowledge of the language. Same is true for music! “hearing” is sometimes not truly hearing

b) where someone sings within their vocal range makes actual differences in the sound, and some instruments do this too

I consider my current comfort with writing in pen to be a wonderful indicator of lessening perfectionism. I can cross things out! It’s okay!

I’m currently writing about how people need to use case studies to adjust their worldview, rather than taking their worldview to the case studies and just slotting the cases in & throwing out those that don’t fit. My context for this is music, but it applies to SO many things, particularly health!!

I have just generally been thinking a lot about the value of documenting all kinds of stuff. Things might be more easily forgotten than I hope, and/or more important than I expect!

this makes me want to dig out the vegan grain-free muffin recipe(s) I used…13 years ago??? to see if it would fit. Also the oatmeal part is another reminder that I love a pear crisp, I should make one of those…

Lois McMaster Bujold’s book MEMORY has a building with air circulation/ventilation that prevents people from giving their colleagues colds, we could have this future, it was known in the 90s!!!!!

who could have guessed!!!

I’m in the wrong part of the world for the signing but I just listened to THE WITCH ROADS and enjoyed it so much!!! I’ve gotten into history podcasts lately and was telling a friend I like learning about social structures & ways of handling conflict, and I like those things in fiction too!