@geoclark
Dork of all trades. Geographer (UChicago, Clark Univ), actor (SAG-AFTRA, mostly background), librarian (Harvard, Simmons), drama graduate/theater historian (Harvard), writer (environment, sustainability, resilience, arts). https://sites.harvard.edu/clark5/
Photo shows the tall museum tower covered with textured granite 250 feet tall. The two story Forum and Library are showing.
The Obama Presidential Center is taking shape. This photo doesn't show it but the Athletic Center is starting to take shape too. I've labeled the parts (and neighbors). The library roof will have the gardens and slope as a green hill into the park. #JacksonPark #Chicago
This is bad if you care about trurh, history, or information availability to the poor.
A book about the campaign for a National Institute of Peace that Mom worked on and that Musky cancelled. Available at a library near you: search.worldcat.org/en/title/118... .
My mom's estate auction is live. Marion "Lucy" Clark was an internationally recognized hand-hooked-rug artist and a volunteer for the lobbying campaign to estanlish the US Institute of Peace. Her dad loved estate sales--the circle of life: shenandoahvalleyauctions.hibid.com/auction/6316...
This has been two weeks of constant events that are more dangerous than January 6th or, I’d absolutely argue, even 9/11, and it is a damning indictment of American media that so many publications and reporters are too cowardly, too docile, to act like it.
Let's hope.
Day by day, Trump is clarifying things for the many voters in 2024 who refused to take seriously his announced intentions. The opposition will grow.
prospect.org/politics/202...
Bluebird from the mealworm feeder.
I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government?
If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Yours truly.
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