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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
   Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)

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A quotation from Wendell Berry

But there is another form that life can take. We can learn about it from exceptional people of our own culture, and from other cultures less destructive than ours. I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until “retirement,” but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of his place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains him, and which he knows he can never encompass with his understanding or desire.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, ch. 2 “The One-Inch Journey” (1971)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/77816/

These are well collected pieces on what most of us are feeling right now.

There is no undo button and democracy as we know it is dead. We need to learn how to live in a fascist regime while trying to resist as long as we can as this will be a multi-generational effort to repair the damage done over the past 45+ years.

I may not live to see that repair though as I have at least 15-20 years left, and that's a sad thought. :(

kottke.org/25/07/theres-no-und

kottke.orgThere’s No Undo Button For Our Fallen DemocracyTressie McMillan Cottom, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, posted this to Bluesky yesterday: I’m going t

My mum received an invitation to a #classreunion and I wonder why I was never invited to one by my former class mates. Don’t they want me there? Are they unable to find me because I am not on Facebook? Or is this simply no longer a thing in my generation? 🤔

I mean, not that I would want to go anyway, I just want to know.

Le #NouveauFrontPopulaire est toujours là ! Aujourd'hui à #Bagneux dans les Hauts-de-Seine, grand meeting unitaire pour préparer les élections de 2027 ! Il va falloir se causer ! Avec des représentant·es de #LesEcologistes, #Générations, #PartiSocialiste #LAPRES, #Debout, etc.

Oui, il manque le #PCF #LFI et #PlacePublique : il faudra en causer aussi.

Ci-joint un rappel : des extraits du programme #NFP, publié en juin 2024.

Lien vers le programme complet en PDF : assets.nationbuilder.com/nouve

The #butterfly #Pieris #rapae (#Pierinae) is native to #Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is a #neozoan in North America since the 19th century and e.g. in Australia since the 20th.. In Central Europe, it has up to four #generations per year.
Snell-Rood E.C. & Kobiela M.E. (2023) published a general protocol for controlled rearing making the species a #researchmodel.

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

Ref.

Snell-Rood E.C. and Kobiela M.E. (2023)
doi.org/10.3791/65383

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© S.F.Wirth 2025

I know gender is all the rage these days, because it's been politicized like crazy by both the Right and the Left, but honestly, when I speak with people I don't know (the ones I know too, but it's different, I know them) I care much less about their gender (which won't affect my interactions with them) than their age or nationality. Both will greatly affect our culture and fields of reference and knowing them would prevent many misunderstandings in my opinion.

#gender #generations #cultures #SocialMedia

So you hate "Boomers" eh?

You are falling for the longest running con job in human history;
a deflection,
a distraction to direct your anger away from the wealthiest.
We could be organizing,
working together
to make a better world
instead you cling to your anger
and direct it exactly where they want .
👇

#Psychology #Aging #generations
#Democracy

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