Watch this incredible murmuration! via Aminatou Sow’s excellent newsletter Crème de la Crème
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On the pandemic anniversary: “As we process this anniversary together, taking stock of our deep losses and perhaps surprising gains, it’s worth looking back at the rituals and routines which have helped us day after day, month after month—and the ones that will continue to create continuity, structure, and joy as we move ahead.” - Esther Perel
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution - holy smokes what a great film. A short description: “A groundbreaking summer camp galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality.” It has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award last year. Watch the trailer here.
“Because all we can see is whether we agree or not, whether we like them or not.”
“Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great movie I can live somebody else's life for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief. The great movies enlarge us, they civilize us, they make us more decent people.”
- Roger Ebert (via On Being)