Yes, I had hopes. Hopes to finish the chapter on Sustained Reading. With some effort, I have finished the chapter. It does not contain any reminders, or suggestions for that. Unless you take the inference of shutting out social media, in this case Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I decided to try the section Attention Rebellion, It starts, “If this was a self- help book, I would be able to serve up a delightful simple conclusion to the story. … In fact, at this moment, as I write this in lockdown, my attention has never been worse.” One cannot fault Johann Hari for giving false hopes. He does go on to give his attempts to recover his Stolen Focus. I have started to read this section. Hopefully I will be able to share something from it in the future.
I did read an entire book today. I got it from the library because a Texan library has pulled it from their shelves. It is, well I am not really sure what they found objectionable. The book is We Are All Born Free. It is from Amnesty International. It has a sub-title of “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights In Pictures”. Drop by your library and check it out, or browse it there. See if you can find something objectionable there. Perhaps they found it too political?
But I did finish the book in one day. Now to raise the bar and read something with some depth clouded in a novel. Or I can turn to An African American and Latinx History of the United States. I put on hold at the same time and for the same reason as We… Born Free, it was banned from a Texan library. I am already wondering if it follows the same trajectory as A People’s History of the United States, from Howard Zinn, Zinn does not “appear in the index so there is nothing overt. I will start something and continue with Stolen Focus.
In the Frida Kalho show of stuff that surrounded her with just enough stuff painted by her and of her to have her name hanging on the promotional items in that show there is a watercolor painting that, if you did not pay attention, looks like an oil painting. Perhaps I am being inattentive on what makes an oil painting look the way it does. There is a lot of painting of people in realistic poses – before the time of color photography. Another reason to visit the show.
Many things to read and to view – it is a good life.
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm :: 2022-04-23