Public Journal
So much for publishing the reading reviews “roughly every two weeks”. I’m journaling in private again too, after a break since roughly 2001. In any case, let’s see what happens here.
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← On Being: B.J. Miller — Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don’t Control
It’s been a long time since I listened to this podcast. The topics are often weighty and I don’t feel I have the energy to give due attention, but this morning the title of the latest episode struck me, so I decided to listen to it. There’s so much here. You can listen to the episode or read the transcript.
One of my favorite parts is this (emphasis mine):
DR. MILLER: … I think about this idea of normalcy a lot. I and many, many others before me have been agents of normalizing disability, and that’s really potent. And I also think there’s a second half to that equation, that we need – that doesn’t mean that we fit these other things into our idea of normal, it means we expand our idea of normal. And I think that life is weird. Life’s hard. Life’s weird. Humans are weird. And I worry, sometimes, that we exist in such a narrow bandwidth of accepted behaviors and thoughts that we really clip off so much of the strange beauty that can be part of the human experience.
On Blogging
At it’s core, the World Wide Web is about connecting people and information together. Consequently, that “traditional” style blogging is making a comeback (via this), should be no surprise.