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I’ve inhabited both ends of the spectrum: true cynic and eternal optimist. It’s interesting how some people grow up as optimists, seeing the good in things until life inevitably snatches that privilege away and leaves them to face what they didn’t want to believe in, turning them into cynics. It feels like a more natural order of things; for me it was reversed. I had a few years of intense cynicism growing up.

Before we called it DEI many of us worked to recruit a more diverse library work force. - In 1987 the American Library Association, Office for Library Personnel Resources (OLPR) under the legendary Margaret Myers received the World Book/ALA Goal Award for "Recruiting Tomorrow's Leaders: An Invitational Pre-Conference to Promote Diversity." In 1989 - OLPR produced the Handbook, "Each One Reach One: Recruiting for the Professional Action." - OLPR produced "

Many in this sphere are current or future parents, thinking about how they’ll raise their kids to be well-adjusted and have good values in an increasingly pozzed America. My parents succeeded in this—they raised all of their children (including me) to be based and healthy, even living in a blue neighborhood where school, peers, and culture were against them. My aim with this essay is to help other parents do that too.

"It’s a relief that I'm not physically perfect. I don’t want to be sacrificed to the gods." —Irene Meder (my grandmother) Should we strive for perfection, always challenging ourselves to grow and master our domains, or should we practice radical self-acceptance and understand that there is no improving what is present? Many of my high-performing students and friends are perfectionists, and they are wonderful humans. Their desire to be better, to grow and thrive, motivates them and helps them to cultivate self-awareness.

“I should say now, without any hint of anger or anything else in my voice, that I will refer to the movie that we’re watching as Sydney.” That’s Paul Thomas Anderson on the commentary track for his 1996 first feature, officially titled Hard Eight, which he calls the “bastard child” of his filmography, due to a range of contentious battles he fought for the film—of which the title is just one.

I am a living example for not moving (especially countries) for your man. Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham is possibly the most successful enduring trailing spouse. I watched the David Beckham docuseries on Netflix awhile ago and while I was intrigued by Golden Balls’ origin story, from his demanding dad to his kitchen-scrubbing OCD (now that’s hot!), what really struck a nerve was how Posh consistently put her own life and happiness on hold to move countries and continents in support of her husband.

Yesterday I took the kids to the Capitol, where we were having a photograph taken together as part of the publicity for The Giant on the Skyline, which is coming out on 8th May. All three children were absolutely furious with me when I picked them up from school as they’d wanted to stay in the playground and either, depending on each child’s preferences, trade Pokemon cards, play basketball, or talk about Sephora (I don’t know if you have a pre-teen girl in your life, but the marketing that that company is doing at pre-teen girls is ferocious and highly effective).

“Kevin’s newsletter reads like your cool friend you meet your freshman year of college who has way more albums than you. The reason I’ve got such great, eclectic taste in music is because I’ve had friends like that my whole life. Kevin knows his stuff. Check his newsletter out. ” ncG1vNJzZmismJq4psLIp5ilnaiWu6Wx0Weqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZn

Written by Louis Marinelli, the conservative political activist and founder of the CalExit campaign who moved to Russia, this Substack provides some insight into the CalExit campaign and my experiences living in Russia. By Louis Marinelli · Launched 3 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmilkae2r7HLpaBnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZA%3D%3D