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To start #2, think about Jedidiah Jenkins's question:
Are you ocean or mountains? Forest or desert? I am all of it.
Jenkins has a way of writing that quickly pierces the everydayness. Oregon to Patagonia has become one of my favorite blogs.
James Shelley writes about a piece of philosophy that very practically guides me every day in the essay "There are only two kinds of problems in the world":
There are two categories of problems:
Problems you can do something about.
&
Problems you can not do anything about.
I cannot tell you how essential this idea is. Simple, not easy.
TNC reflected on the internal liberal battle to renegotiate the possible. I loved this line:
But hope still lies in the imagined thing.
I'll round out #2 with a song from Kendrick Lamar: "How Much a Dollar Cost". Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite artists and this track off his most recent album has stuck with me ever since I first heard it. It demonstrates how hip hop can be a device for powerful storytelling and always kicks me into a state of reflection. I'd suggest that you check out the RapGenius annotations on the song as they reveal a lot of the depth in the song.
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