“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.  Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”  "I went to law school when women were less than 3% of lawyers in the country; today, they are 50%.  I never had a woman teacher in college or in law school.  The changes have been enormous.  And they've just—they've gone much too far (to be) going back."  "I pray that I may be all that (my mother) would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are cherished as much as sons.”  "Dissents speak to a future age.  It's not simply to say my colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way, but the greatest dissents do become court opinions."  "If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United.  I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be."  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/19/ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-supreme-court-metoo-equality/5837815002/ 

The Joslyn Art Museum is the principal fine arts museum in Omaha, Nebraska.  It was opened in 1931 at the initiative of Sarah H. Joslyn in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn.  It is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection, and although it includes works from Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Titian, among others, its greatest strengths are the outstanding art collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of American and European artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joslyn_Art_Museum  See also https://www.joslyn.org/ 

Wang Wei (699–759) was a Chinese poet, musician, painter, and politician during the Tang dynasty.  He was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time.  Many of his poems are preserved, and twenty-nine were included in the highly influential 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)  See also https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wei-wang and https://allpoetry.com/Wang-Wei 

Jeweled Rice by Samin Nosrat  Making this rice is a time commitment and a labor of love.  But the ingredients aren't difficult to find, and the finished dish is stunning.  Fruit and nut mixture can be made two days ahead.  https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/jeweled-rice-51169120  six servings 

The Overstory by Richard Powers  Charred nuts are comforting beyond words—sweet, savory, rich as honeyed potato, earthy and mysterious all at once.  *  By the time an ash has made a baseball bat, a chestnut has made a dresser.  *  A school of leaves, swimming and shining in the sky  *  The black walnut poisons the ground beneath it so nothing else can grow.  But wood so fine that thieves poach it.  *  Sitka spruce—pound for pound—is a wood stronger than steel.  *  Beneath fresh drifts, cracked sidewalks ride up over bulging tree roots in the world’s slowest seismic waves.  

The zoopraxiscope (pronounced ZOH-uh-PRACKS-uh-scohp), invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge and first shown in 1879, was a primitive version of later motion picture devices which worked by showing a sequence of still photographs in rapid succession.  The zoopraxiscope, along with the zoetrope and the thaumatrope, could be considered forerunners of today's motion display technologies (including the animated GIF and video display technologies such as streaming video ), all of which create an effect of motion by presenting discrete but closely-related images one after the other.  Muybridge is considered to be one of the fathers of cinematography.  He perhaps best known today for his sequence of photographs of a race horse in motion (which proved for the first time that at top speed all feet leave the ground), studied photography in the early 1860s with daguerrotypist Silas Selleck and later achieved recognition for his photographs of the Yosemite Valley and other scenes of the American Far West.  The zoopraxiscope emerged out of his studies of motion as shown in sequences of still photographs.  His 11-volume work, Animal Locomotion , published in 1887, contained over 100,000 photographs.  In 1893, he lectured at "Zoopraxigraphical Hall" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/zoopraxiscope 

purblind  adjective  nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.  slow or deficient in understanding, imagination, or vision.  Obsolete.  totally blind.  origin of purblind:  1250–1300; Middle English pur blind completely blind; see pure (in obsolete adv. sense), blind  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/purblind 

This chocolate chip cookie recipe has been carefully crafted to be perfectly soft, perfectly chewy, and just all around perfectly delectable.  You’ll never need another chocolate chip cookie recipe again.  Find recipe, pictures and tips from Samantha at https://www.spendwithpennies.com/perfect-chocolate-chip-cookies/ 

For more than half a century, whenever two full Moons appear in a single month (which happens on average every 2 1/2 to 3 years), the second full Moon is christened a “Blue Moon.”  When you look at the full Moon on Halloween night in 2020, it won’t appear blue in color but you’ll be looking at something pretty uncommon.  A full Moon on Halloween occurs roughly once every 19 years—a pattern known as the Metonic Cycle.  This well-known lunar cycle was discovered in 432 BC by the Greek, Meton, of Athens.  He determined that after 19 years have elapsed, the phase of the Moon will repeat on the same date. Well . . . not always.  Because of slight variations in the Moon’s orbital period, and the number of leap days that intervene over a 19-year time span, the Metonic Cycle can be accurate only to within a day.  There is an alternate definition of a “Blue Moon”—when there are 4 full Moons in a single season, the third is considered a “Blue Moon.”  According to astronomers, we will all see a 100%-illuminated Halloween full Moon (after 2020) in the years  2039, 2058, 2077, and 2096 (note the 19-year pattern).  https://www.farmersalmanac.com/blue-moon-supermoon-2020-104546 

Greasewood is also known as black greasewood or chicowood.  Sacrobatus is from the Greek sarco meaning "flesh" and batos meaning "bramble or thorn," referring to the succulent leaves and spiny branches of the plant.  The family name "Chenopodiaceae" translates to "goose foot," referring to some members of this family's leaf shape, which resembles the foot of a goose.  Greasewood was first collected by John C. Fremont--a famous Civil War veteran, western explorer and one-time presidential candidate--and first named by John Torrey as Fremontia vermiculatus, until it was discovered that the genus Sarcobatus already existed.  Greasewood grows throughout the West, north from California to Canada, east across the northern United States and southern Canada to the Dakotas, and south to Mexico.  It grows at elevations from 2000 to 8500 feet.  Greasewoods are thorny, many branched shrubs which grow three to seven feet tall.  See pictures at https://www.desertusa.com/flora/greasewood.html 

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