I would like to thank Biden for acknowledging that those of us who lost loved ones in the past year to something other than COVID could also not be with them at the end and celebrate their lives in the ways that we would have. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Since I couldn't give a eulogy to my dad, this is what I could do. It'll be a year in six days: legacy.com/obituaries/sta…
I'd also like to thank @PaulSalopek—who worked with my dad when he was young—for sending me this Merwin poem when my dad passed, which I put in his obit. My dad was so proud of him and his work.
All in all it's been a year where the grief and loss and horror visited on so many have meant that those who've felt profound but lesser devastation have not really been able to share and process it normally.
Feeling comparatively sparred and deeply scarred. So many of us.
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"For the people who know Hammer’s family—peppered with Russian communists and American oil tycoons—the allegations are an unsurprising development to a long and sordid history with drugs, sex, dysfunction, and betrayal."
Re Major Biden: Cabbage, my rescue pup, has "leash aggression." If he's on a leash, he feels the need to get up in every dog's face to show he's not afraid(?) and if not given that interaction, can bark and act like he'll attack (he will not). We tried and failed to train of him.
Cabbage is 16 pounds, and has never bitten a dog. (And loves all humans even when on leash.) He also seems triggered by huskies and shepherds.
Anyway, some rescue dogs can have their issues and good dog owners know when not to push their luck.
As a pug/pom/yorkie/mystery mix, Cabbage is also on high alert for noise when in the home.
If he didn't have these issues, he'd be 100% perfect. But then
Layoffs at HuffPo are devastating. And part of the systematic gutting of journalism broadly and the pump and dump of VC-fueled digital journalism specifically.
Support media you care about. Journalism is a check on corruption and authoritarianism. We need more of it, not less
My son is named for the protagonist of this, perhaps the greatest single children’s book ever written (and illustrated by great Jules Feiffer). Via a mutual acquaintance, Juster sent him a signed copy, which we will treasure always. RIP.