It’s been a really tough year for many of us, the citizens of the world. But on this day of thanksgiving in the US, I wanted to ask you all: what are you thankful for today? I’m thankful that I was able to travel to say goodbye to a friend , thankful for the time I’ve spent
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Empathy is difficult. I’m not you, I can’t imagine the path you’ve traveled, the stories you tell yourself and the pressures you’re under. But real gratitude requires empathy. Everyone is under the circumstances. Everyone does the best they think they can with the options they
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965. As the long song unfolds, we hear all
Here’s to celebrating what brings us joy, great and small.
The new documentary follows a Paiute teenager as he navigates his passion for running and the story of his great-grandfather, who escaped from an Indigenous residential school.
This week, we honor a quintessential LA artist, one of Disney’s first Native artists, a librarian who moonlighted as a collector, and more.
Perhaps inspired by All Streets , Ben Fry’s map of all the streets in the US, Nelson Minar built a US map out of all the rivers in the country . Minar put all the data and files he used up on Github so you can make your own version. [This is a vintage post originally from