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The McRaney book was full of studies about how we think we are rational when we are not, and stories about people who believe weird stuff that's obviously not true. I've seen myself act irrationally too many times to put total faith in brain power, and I experience a monkey-riding-a-tiger model for humans in the world. He tells how major changes in climate during the Pleistocene are what led to human evolution through forced adaptability. Maybe the major climate changes we are about to experience will spur another wave of human development. He wrote about deep canvassing and street epistemology as ways to guide interviewees into metacognition in which they start to think about how they think and what events led them to their current convictions. He also talked about certainty, how it is not a conclusion, but an emotion that feels like a conclusion.
I am delighted with these wooden eggs that Mark Salwasser gave the library. I picked the dark brown wood with the red stripe. Most are probably still tucked away amoung books. I think we are establishing that Easter is a day we go out to brunch. It seems that on other holidays Melissa cooks and we invite people in. Nice to save one holiday for eating out and going for a walk.
We are finally getting to some spring like temps, but just last week we had icing. We finally have an indictment, but more important are the events in Tennessee, where following a school shooting in Memphis, their legislature expelled two black reps for siding with the protestors. They just created a new John Lewis and a youth movement. Pictures of Joan Baez meeting the Justins at the airport and singing we shall overcome with them is goosebumps level.
Three songs I've discovered lately that share a theme of honoring the sacrifices of our ancestors and reminding us to move the work along into the future that we will not be there to see. Allison Russell, Iris Dement, Amy Ray. Yes, we are working on a world.
