Friday Postcard 10.1.21
Those Soul-Nourishing Fall Birthdays, Vaxes... (and Taxes)
Happy new-October from newShrink, and just a brief Postcard this week!
(Due to unusually high recent usage that spent the supply, especially around my birthday, newShrink words are back-ordered and will be delivered well ahead of next week’s Friday Notebook…)
Less playfully speaking, sensory overload — plus post-vaccine-spaciness greater than my usual — exacerbates this word-limited state. Thankfully scoring the third Covid vaccine booster-shot Thursday was just in time for a last-minute decision to use long-held, pre-Covid, tickets and brave mask-resistant crowds for the Charlotte Rolling Stones concert — aptly named the “No Filter” tour! (Fortunately, the concert was outdoors; unfortunately, the majority of human-packed spaces in the stadium are not.) Never the world’s most flaming extravert even in normal times, I’m not sure how much delight in giant screaming crowds there will be for me in some post-Covid future… should there ever be such a thing.
That said, the Stones were astonishing; they hold GOAT status for good reason. Here’s a just-in review from The Charlotte Observer. One favorite quote from thousand-something-year-old (craggy-faced, absolutely adorable!) Keith Richards:
“Hellooo, Charlotte! I’m happy to be here…
(I’m happy to be anywhere.)”
(I am also up against a final ASAP extension deadline for a fun weekend of sorting and getting info to the CPA on my mom’s most chaotic tax year, ever.)
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coming up next…
In addition to updates on breaking- and political news, next week’s Notebook menu includes:
Some good articles and my comments on the often-surprising success of vaccine mandates, including American historic perspectives dating to the Revolution and again in the early 1900s.
Continuing my previous discussions of the intersections of public power, sexuality, and the various kinds of power-abuse in the era of #MeToo. I’ll incorporate discussion of both Anita Hill’s new book, Believing, and a candid interview with playwright Aaron Sorkin regarding the fast and thorough downfall of his long creative collaborator Scott Rudin due to his workplace bullying.
Thanks to several readers, I’ll share some of the great quotes you are sending me.
Also thanks to two readers with an eye for the soul psychology perspective, I’ll share and comment on two good pieces they’ve sent.
And meanwhile, that is all I have. Talk to you next week!
🦋💙tish
… it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
— William Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article254644892.html