Once again, #JohnGreen has the best, most calming advice for the new year: "Take it down a notch."
(Is #vlogbrothers really turning 16 already?? 👵)
https://youtu.be/bpWtZKVahEE

HOPE

HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

— Emily Dickinson, written probably around 1861, published posthumously in 1891.

I recently heard this poem in a YouTube short by John Green of the Vlog Brothers, and what stayed with me from that video is how he focused on how Emily wrote how hope 'never stops [singing] at all', and pointed out that while we can't always hear the song of hope, it's still there.

#poetry #poems #poem #EmilyDickinson #hope #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers #JohnGreen #VlogBrothers

Kolmogorov Twitter

Twitter is what happens when interactions, low-latency, amplification, and images (memes are pretty much precisely cartoons of complex ideas) are cheap, while nuance, deliberation, and complexity are expensive. It drives all the intelligence from the discussion, absent very deliberate effort.

It’s also all plaza and no warrens. ...

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/0b3481508d2e0139a746002590d8e506

#Twitter #Nuance #KolmogorovComplexity #VlogBrothers #WarrensAndPlazas #CodeAndOtherLaws #LawrenceLessig #Alamogordo