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Fall 2025 Special Edition
Fall 2025 Special Edition
Some quotes and music, some posts from the WITW archives, a few new finds, some news and commentary, a reflection on community and a look back at the student protests of 1968 - "my year of being 20".
Quotes
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place." - R. Buckminster Fuller
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Music
Link to an 8-pack of great songs (YouTube videos) -CSN, Willie Nelson, The Cranberries, Bob Dylan and friends, Wilco and Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd, Ruthie Foster and The Eagles
To understand a man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty" (Sep 2025) - a look back at the student protests of 1968 and "my year of being twenty"
Community (Sep 2025) - Maybe we just need more food and music in our lives
Autumn (2019) - Poets, composers, artists and philosophers celebrate the season.
Boomerland (2021) - Reflections on three Best Picture nominees from that year - Nomadland, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Three Poems, Three Takes on Getting Older (2022) - Each reading of a poem brings new insights.. "Autumn in Sigulda" contains a favorite passage that starts, "Thank you, Life, for having been..."
Guernica (2018) - the most powerful antiwar painting in all of Western art
From Guernica to Gaza: On the Detached Cruelty of Air Power (TomDispatch, 2025)
49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch this Fall (Literary Hub, 2025)
The 6 superpowers that faith communities bring to nonviolent struggle | Waging Nonviolence, 2025)
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Quanta Magazine, 2025)
Marcus Aurelius and Albert Camus on courage and hope in troubling times (2020) -Two writers separated by almost two millennia provide sage advice on confronting today's troubling times.
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