Hi, friends. Wow, what a week. I know you join me in deep sadness over the violence and death in Israel and Palestine. As my husband said when I limply asked him what he was...thinking, I guess? about it all: it breaks thought. Here are three weekend things, in descending order of seriousness.

One piece that helped crystallize some thinking

I am very often grateful for Nicholas Kristof, who has both a long career's experience listening to people in the world's most conflicted places, and a deep empathy born of that experience. I found his column this week helpful and clarifying, as far as help and clarity are available.

OK, weird...?

On a lighter note, this has been going around again. When I tell you to imagine an apple, what do you see, on the scale pictured below? Some people are 1s (genuinely "see" a detailed, specific apple); some are 5s ("see" nothing, just think the word); others are in between. I think I'm somewhere between a 3 and 4. Even when I was teaching high school English, I felt like a fraud suggesting that kids "visualize" stories they read, because I almost never do. Wild! How bout you?

So accurate it made me snort in the library

From The Onion:

LIKE TINSEL!!!

Love you. xoxo