Mountaintop on October 5th
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atop Mount Mansfield on PhD*Son's birthday (Shiloh)
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Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward
ReplyDeleteGuardian: Paramount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.
Paramount’s decision is a striking sign of US media giants’ continued rightward drift – not least because Weiss’s own recent career trajectory could be said to mirror the larger pendulum swing that has taken many corporate media companies from cautious allies of the anti-Trump “resistance” to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order. -- nordy
I don't understand why everyone is afraid of him. He's an old, addled, incontinent man. He can't pronounce words longer than three syllables. Anything he could do to you is reversible, other than maiming or death. Probably why he's openly declared war on Democrats. He can't beat us, so he'll kill us. Susan
ReplyDeleteI'm far more afraid of Steven Miller. And Russ Vought and others who have no regard whatsoever for their fellow humans. They still have their basic faculties and aren't shy about their intention to destroy democracy.
DeleteMiller is an out of control sociopath. He guides trump. Susan
DeleteYep.
DeleteI always wondered if anyone climbed Mount Mansfield. Now I know. Susan
ReplyDeleteOh, all the time! This was one of the busiest weekends of the year, too, being foliage season.
DeleteShiloh actually took part in a crazy thing people do...run up the mountain (4393') then down then back up and down again, same day. And! It involved four different trails, including one that goes through caves, and you have to heft your whole weight up boulders, and leap large gaps.
Me? I went from the upper parking lot to the summit, just 1.25mi each way, but on the way to the summit the elevation gains 600ft. And that was grueling enough!!
Dear Friends and Fellow Humans,
ReplyDeleteI turn 70 today. For 7 decades I’ve had the privilege of living out my childhood dream, which was simply to UNDERSTAND. After spending more than half a century meeting people from all over the world willing to tell me their stories, I have found meaning, purpose and hope through advocating for their voices with music. I am deeply grateful to them all.
But today, I am worried. In the year 2100, my youngest grandchild will be 76. She will be meeting a world I will not see. I wonder what the world will be like then? And what can we all do now to ensure that today’s children can live with hope, purpose and meaning?
I try to remember that WE ARE NATURE. Embedded within nature, and in us, are the seeds of incredible creativity and terrifying destructiveness. My deepest birthday wish is that all of us humans become constantly aware of these opposing forces within us, and that we actively choose to create rather than destroy. Only then can we be free to imagine, invent and construct a new way of living together. Only then can we live in equilibrium with one another and with our planet, include all the wisdom of the ages, allow awe and wonder to be a part of our lives, and most of all, treat every human being with dignity:
a PLANETARY HUMANISM.
With love & affection,
Yo-Yo Ma
Happy birthday! I second your birthday wish.
DeleteI am optimistic about 2100. The world as a whole had improved tremendously between my birth in 1936 and yours in 1955. With occasional setbacks we have mostly continued to see things get better over the past 70 years. There's no guarantee, but I expect that to continue to be true over the coming 75.
Okay! Who needs some inspiration ... some feeling of deep down goodness, meaningful caring and skilled craftsmanship?
ReplyDeleteLook for a show called The Repair Shop! A handful of craftsmen restore family heirlooms (full of history and stories) to their original glory. Everything from a cuckoo clock to an accordion to furniture. The camaraderie in the group is lovely, and the narrator's British voice is a delight. We found it on the Britbox channel on Roku.