TITLE: Today's Reading
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: January 05, 2021  3:33 PM
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BODY:
 Lot's of good stuff on the exercise bike this morning...

 Henry Rollins on
<a href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/henry-rollins-on-defining-success/">
   making things because he must</a>:

<blockquote><em>
 I'm a shipbuilder.  I don't want to sail in them.  I want you
 to sail in them.  I'm just happy that they leave the harbor
 so I can have an empty workplace.
</em></blockquote>

 Deirdre Connolly on
<a href="https://twitter.com/durumcrustulum/status/1261817842929975298">
   the wonder of human achievement</a>:

<blockquote><em>
 We, ridiculous apes with big brains and the ability to cooperate,
 can listen to the universe shake from billions of light years
 away, because we learned math and engineering.  Wild.
</em></blockquote>

 Sonya Mann on
<a href="https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/thriverism/">
   our ultimate task</a>:

<blockquote><em>
 Our labor is the same as it ever was.  Your job is to pioneer
 a resilient node in the network of civilization -- to dodge the
 punches, roll with the ones that you can't, and live to fight
 another day.  That's what our ancestors did for us and it's
 what we'll do for those who come next: hold the line, explore
 when there's surplus, stay steady, and go down swinging when
 we have to.
</em></blockquote>

 Henry Rollins also said:

<blockquote><em>
 "What would a writer do in this situation?"  I don't know, man.
 Ask one.  And don't tell me what he said; I'm busy.
</em></blockquote>

 Back to work.
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