This broad smile is brought to you through the lens of Peter Ralston...thank you, Peter, for bringing us all together this evening!
And this: "A host of brilliant journalists young and old, have started independent newsletters, covering tech, the state of the media, politics, climate, reproductive rights and virtually everything else, but their reach is too modest to make them a replacement for the big newspapers and networks. The great exception might be historian Heather Cox Richardson, whose newsletter and Facebook followers give her a readership not much smaller than that of the Washington Post. The tremendous success of her sober, historically grounded (and footnoted!) news summaries and reflections bespeaks a hunger for real news." ~ Rebecca Solnit, the Guardian
Buoys are wonderful things, especially bell buoys like the one in Peter’s photo. Ringing out a guiding note in whatever the wave rhythm is at the moment, in a sea world where the topography is invisible. Mariners rely on them. Governments put out and maintain buoys. Governments do a lot of things we all rely on, often without thinking about it.
A vertical striped red and white buoy, like the one in Peter Ralston’s photograph, marks the middle of the channel, the middle of the road. To the right or to the left, stay close to it and you’re safe.
This broad smile is brought to you through the lens of Peter Ralston...thank you, Peter, for bringing us all together this evening!
And this: "A host of brilliant journalists young and old, have started independent newsletters, covering tech, the state of the media, politics, climate, reproductive rights and virtually everything else, but their reach is too modest to make them a replacement for the big newspapers and networks. The great exception might be historian Heather Cox Richardson, whose newsletter and Facebook followers give her a readership not much smaller than that of the Washington Post. The tremendous success of her sober, historically grounded (and footnoted!) news summaries and reflections bespeaks a hunger for real news." ~ Rebecca Solnit, the Guardian
Buoys are wonderful things, especially bell buoys like the one in Peter’s photo. Ringing out a guiding note in whatever the wave rhythm is at the moment, in a sea world where the topography is invisible. Mariners rely on them. Governments put out and maintain buoys. Governments do a lot of things we all rely on, often without thinking about it.
A vertical striped red and white buoy, like the one in Peter Ralston’s photograph, marks the middle of the channel, the middle of the road. To the right or to the left, stay close to it and you’re safe.
And the sun is indeed rising again on the nation.
Thank you, Heather. For everything.