The Christ Child: A Nativity Story

December 4, 2019 · by Lori | in holidays, video | tagged Advent, advent calendar, Christmas, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, film, Hebrew, LIght the World, nativity, video | 1 Comment

Loquita asked me yesterday, Dec. 3, where the advent calendar was, and I just looked startled. [Read more]

Less like a flight path, more like a donut

November 29, 2019 · by Lori | in Mind Stretch, philosophy, politics, social issues, video | tagged alternative, economics, fairness, GDP, growth, Kate Raworth, Oxford, society, thrive | 2 Comments

—the capitalist equivalent of Spain’s Running of the Bulls. [Read more]

The shapes of politics

November 16, 2019 · by Lori | in Mind Stretch, politics, social issues | tagged Ben Doessel, fairness, font, gerrymandering, James Lee, legislative districts, power, power grab, reform, typeface, uglygerry.com | Leave a comment

The more rigged a system is, the more precarious, in many ways. [Read more]

The power to restore our world

November 3, 2019 · by Lori | in culture, health, Mind Stretch, nature, science, social issues | tagged Andrew Forrest, No plastic Waste, ocieans, planet, plastic, recycling, Sea the Future, TED talks | 1 Comment

One great aspect of the strategy proposed here is the way that two huge problems can connect and solve each other. [Read more]

And I quote: Dwight D. Eisenhower

October 22, 2019 · by Lori | in and I quote:, history, philosophy, photograph, politics | tagged battle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, plan, planning | 6 Comments

I’m working to get as much sense out of this idea as I can. Let’s take it apart together. [Read more]

Is it, or isn’t it? Recycling interactive

October 13, 2019 · by Lori | in politics, science, social issues | tagged environment, government, industry, recycle, recycling, reduce, regulations, reuse | 2 Comments

Hard is the word I would use to describe the current situation [Read more]

Dispatches from the Hamburg Airport

October 7, 2019 · by Lori | in Art to Share, map, travel | tagged airport, Hamburg, Heathrow, London, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, security checkpoint, tapestry, time, travel, Vanessa Barragão | Leave a comment

I did not greet my wakeup call with luxurious stretches and an “all is right with the world” sigh. [Read more]

Worry into focus

September 27, 2019 · by Lori | in nature, politics, science, social issues, video | tagged climate, climate action summit, climate change, climate crisis, global warming, Greta Thunberg, solar energy, Sweden, UN, wave energy, wind energy | 3 Comments

Failing to do so will sink us. [Read more]

“Is it about cheese if it is cheese?”

September 21, 2019 · by Lori | in books, creativity, food, humor | tagged amie Lausch Vander Broek, catalog press, cheese, publishing, Saveur, University of Michigan | Leave a comment

The cheese product is shelf-stable, but the book itself might not have stayed on the shelf for long. [Read more]

Shrinking inaccuracies down to size

September 15, 2019 · by Lori | in history, learning, map, science, video | tagged cartography, equal-earth project, Gall-Peters, geography, map, Mercator, Neil Kaye, XKCD | 2 Comments

Today I ran across a new entry in the field of maps-not-as-bad-as-Mercator, [Read more]