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#TodayILearned #NFN

Confucius was born in toughly 500 BCE and it will take over a couple of centuries before his ideas have impact.

This is the *perfect* blend of what I studied in undergrad. And yet, I‘m bailing. But I‘m doing so without a rating attached!

I‘ve come leaps & bounds with my audiobook skillset in the past 15 years or so… but it‘s still not my primary mode of learning and I think I‘ve finally hit my limit. Listening to an academic, philosophical text is, apparently, beyond me. I may come back to this…but I also may not. 👇🏻

This afternoon, I went to a talk by all 4 authors of Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault“ (Foucault's 3 houses), a graphic work about Foucault's life and work, explained through the prism of his houses. The book is not in the database because it will be published in April 2026 by Presses Universitaires de Rennes,
a university press. Quite interesting, and I bagged 3 bookmarks 😁
Looking forward to Publication Day 😄
Illustrations from the book

#ARichLife #Twilight

My teen has been talking to me about Nietzsche, so I'm dusting off my Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ from college. I made notes in it, so I know I read it, but I remember nothing from this book except that it wasn't what I'd expected when I was 19 years old.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I colored this picture and wrote this story about it. 🦁🦁🦁❤️❤️❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌤️

#haiku #haikuhive

I do talk about politics on my feed from time to time, however I don't often speak about how it impacts my job. That changed today when because of the government shutdown (& to be clear R's currently control the entire federal government); it was made clear that beginning 11-1 (SNAP AKA Food stamps for people w/ IDD ,in my field) end. We went from a yr ago when people complained about the price of eggs to *literally“ no longer being able (CONT);

It‘s not as morbid as it sounds. I am not sure that this is a typical Litsy read. But sometimes I have to get into my deep reading.

Gently humorous short book on how Proust viewed topics like suffering, expressing emotions, being a friend, seeing beauty in ordinary things, etc. Very readable.

Here‘s an idea. Don‘t give the Nobel Peace Prize to anyone who actually *wants* it.

I am still not actually reading Proust but books that refer to it. Also I am trying to learn some French in case I can do it that way, but I like the language anyway since English is so much made from it.