5/13/2023 0 Comments Digital minimalism by cal newport![]() The ultimate goal of digital decluttering is not to reject technology entirely, but rather to cultivate a more mindful and purpose-driven approach to digital consumption.Ĭal Newport highlights the importance of solitude and deep work as essential components for personal and professional growth. During this time, individuals should remove or temporarily disable any non-essential apps, accounts, and notifications, and then closely observe the impact of these changes on their day-to-day routines.Īt the end of the decluttering period, individuals can reintroduce the digital tools they deem essential, while maintaining the newfound sense of focus and balance they have achieved. ![]() To embark on a digital declutter, Newport suggests setting aside a dedicated period-typically around 30 days-to assess and reevaluate the digital tools, apps, and platforms that occupy one's daily life. Just as physical clutter can lead to feelings of overwhelm and disorganisation, an excess of digital noise can hinder productivity, focus, and overall well-being. ![]() It emphasises the importance of systematically evaluating one's digital landscape and eliminating unnecessary distractions that consume time and attention. ![]() The concept of Digital Declutter is a crucial component of Cal Newport's digital minimalism philosophy. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments The swallows of lunetto![]() ![]() My current favorite fast food establishment is: …I regret to inform you I have tried my first Slurpee, and I am a changed man. My current mode of transportation includes: Honda CB500F motorcycle on the weekends, total dad-car on weekdays. My current words of wisdom are: “Love is not a shelter from ourselves.” My current chemical romance involves: black licorice. I see my students making some positive and exciting changes. My current state of mind is: cautiously optimistic. My current favorite thing to listen to is: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, especially the second movement. You know, a totally normal amount of real-crime documentaries. My current favorite things to watch are: hours and hours of real-crime documentaries. My current favorite thing to read is: everything I can about the Riemann Hypothesis. ![]() ![]() His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, seven Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets Prize. His novels include The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the “20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.” His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). ![]() JOSEPH FASANO is an American novelist, poet, and songwriter. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Rj yeatman![]() ![]() ![]() But their other major contribution to public education at the time – And Now All This (1932) – has been largely forgotten. In 1934, 1066 and All That was made into a popular musical, and by 1936, a fellow humorist, Eric Partridge, could note that ‘Sellar and Yeatman’ had already become shorthand for their most famous work. 16).Īfter this debut, there was a boom in Sellar and Yeatman. Morton – and then, at the start of the next decade, 1066 and All That (1930), the incomparable comic history book by W. Wodehouse, the plays of Noël Coward, the Beachcomber columns of J. There was also a boom in humour: the Jeeves novels of P. The 1920s, wrote Rose Macaulay in Life among the English (1942), her potted history of English social life, was a decade of booms: ‘There were booms in photography, Sunday film and theatre clubs, surrealism, steel furniture, faintly obscure poetry, Proust, James Joyce, dancing, rink skating, large paintings on walls of rooms.’ ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Please look after my mother![]() Obviously this is a book that will make you think a lot about your own family. Everyone in the family struggles with not being a good enough son/daughter/husband to Mom, and wondering whether they’ll have the chance to make it up to her. She’s been struggling with severe headaches, and it seems likely that she’s lost “mentally” as well as physically. ![]() We experience not only their sense of loss and their treasured memories, but also the conflicts that come with any close family relationship.Ī portrait of “Mom” emerges – she’s a mother with high expectations who spends her life feeding and caring for her children and husband, often at the expense of her own needs. The family’s efforts to find her are described from the perspectives of her son, her daughter and her husband. Park So-Nyo is an elderly wife and mother of five who gets separated from her husband in a crowded station and disappears. Please Look After Mom is a widely acclaimed Korean novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, which tells the story of a family who lose their mother in a Seoul subway station. ![]() ![]() THIS WAS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER READ! Thank you to DC Entertainment for an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. This would be the perfect novel to read aloud to a younger child-they'd love the pictures, and wouldn't get bored by too much text! The art was adorable and easy to grasp at a glance, and the story moved along at a fast pace. I found Diana: Princess of the Amazons to be a refreshing and cute middle grade graphic novel. Mona animates to life! All of the sudden, Diana has a friend for all of her adventures.īut, as Diana soon learns, having a friend is harder than it looks. So, upon hearing the origin story from her mother that Diana was formed from clay and a wish, Diana decides to make her own clay "friend." She molds her friend together and wishes for "Mona" to be a real girl. Life isn't exciting when you're the only kid in the world and all of the grown-ups are too busy to play. ![]() ![]() ![]() This cute, middle grade graphic novel focused on Wonder Woman was full of heart.ĭiana is the only child in a community of Amazon warrior women, and she's not exactly having the best time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel the relief of a debtor releasing coins from his fist – a weight lifted, no longer beholden. I have been kept almost entirely away from pain and violence, from complex sensation, from ordinary people who I now imagine will tear me apart like dogs. ![]() In “The Doll,” a group of friends find an abandoned doll in the yard of a family whose members all tragically died in “In This Fantasy,” a narrator takes us through the kinds of lives she imagines having and the personas that come with them in “June Bugs,” a woman running away from an abusive relationship finds her house inexplicably overrun with june bugs. In some stories, what is unsettling is elusive, hard to put your finger on in others, it is very much front and center, obvious though not necessarily comprehensible. ![]() ![]() The stories in this collection vary in genre: some skew more speculative or magical realist, while others are firmly set in the “real world.” Regardless of how they lean in terms of genre, though, all these stories are characterized by a sense of disquietude: there is always something that’s unsettling, not quite right. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century was a little inconsistent as a collection for me, but on the whole I feel like its stronger stories really helped elevate it in the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Political change makes it more possible prepare and identify such political windows and pursue policy and legislation change to underpin the health system reforms. The quest to achieve UHC is explicitly a political process with a variety of strategies to shape organizational change that accompanies health systems reform capitalize on political windows of opportunity. While a policy's entrance onto the political agenda is not random, Makueni county has been able to provide UHC since 2016 dubbed, 'Makueni care'. In Makueni county, UHC became a reality with the rest of Kenya playing catch up and learning from their journey. This can be said to true of the Makueni UHC policy. ![]() This calls on governments and health stakeholders to build on the political commitment that health is a good investment and reduce the number of people who pay out of pocket for healthcare. Universal health coverage(UHC) ensures that all people can access the health services they need, without being exposed to financial hardship. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Internment samira![]() ![]() ![]() As a sense of hopelessness begins to overwhelm many of the internees, Layla and a group of friends decide to fight back and form a resistance movement within the camp. The Amins are sent, along with thousands of other Muslims, to an interment camp surrounded by watchtowers, electric fences, and armed guards. ![]() But the unthinkable happens when men from the Exclusion Authority arrive at their home and announce they're being relocated. Muslim Americans are now on a "registry," Exclusion Laws have been enacted, and the president has just declared, "Muslims are a threat to America." For 17-year-old Layla Amin, it's unthinkable that her neighbors would find her family a threat. Parents need to know that Samira Ahmed's Internment is a chilling and timely novel set in a near-future America. Layla and her father are fans of the British TV series Doctor Who, and both her parents are " Star Wars nerds." The rebellious teens in the movie Footloose are a source of inspiration for Layla and her friends. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments September Moon by Candice Proctor![]() ![]() ‘What if he backs you up against a wall?’ He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain. ‘What are you going to do the first time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?’ At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air. You don’t.’ ‘I can learn.’ ‘Can you?’ He came at her with that lean hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. ‘Your mother could handle men better than anyone I’ve ever met. ![]() Against the sweeping panorama of a harsh, gorgeous, and unforgiving land, two hungering souls learn to trust, to love, and to triumph over the danger that will shadow their lives until destiny and desire become one. But the mother in her cannot turn away from Hayden’s needy infant and the woman in her cannot deny her passion for the rugged, enigmatic man she is bound to serve. ![]() Broken in body but not in spirit she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Captain Hayden St. Night in EdenBryony Wentworth’s life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Here, in her deubt novel, she brings to vivid life a part of the Regency period rarely dramatized…Īnd creates sets of characters you will never forget. CANDICE PROCTOROnce in a great while a dazzling new writer appears on the scene with a historical romance so breathtaking that it sweeps readers off their feet. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The bfg audiobook![]() ![]() ![]() En 1964 publica su primera obra, Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate. Su entrada en el mundo de la literatura infantil estuvo motivada por los cuentos que narraba a sus cuatro hijos. Después de un entrenamiento de ocho meses, se convierte en piloto de aviación en la Royal Air Force fue derribado en combate y tuvo que pasar seis meses hospitalizado.ĭespués fue destinado a Londres y en Washington empezó a escribir sus aventuras de guerra. En este continente le sorprende la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Terminado el Bachillerato y en contra de las recomendaciones de su madre para que cursara estudios universitarios, empieza a trabajar en la compañía multinacional petrolífera Shell, en África. A los cuatro años pierde a su padre y a los siete entra por primera vez en contacto con el rígido sistema educativo británico que deja reflejado en algunos de sus libros, por ejemplo, en Matilda y en Boy. Roald Dahl nació en 1916 en un pueblecito de Gales (Gran Bretaña) llamado Llandaff en el seno de una familia acomodada de origen noruego. ![]() |