Thursday

Another day of thinking, writing, and editing, the record spins around and the needle drops on a few highlights for an early November day. How is your relationship with money? We have a few suggestions for improvements. A young poet puts several of us old poets out of work, and we applaud it. Another journalist talks with another lexicographer about… Words. Finally, boygenius recently came off the road, released some new music, and sat down with Zane Lowe for a convo.

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Money is important; as much as I'd like to embrace the nothingness of money, at the end of the day - many of the transactional features of trading numbers with others, make the wheels go around. As important as money is, it is also the subject of more divorces, arguments, stress, and anxiety than just about anything else. A person’s relationship with money will be the source of anxiety or success in most cases. MindJournal has compiled one of the best articles on money, management, and mindset for your consideration. As a follow-up to yesterday's New Year's prep story, here is a great primer on establishing a good foundation with money and improving your mindset.

Money Mindset

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Yesterday brought us a poetry popup, and today, I'm going to highlight a remarkable poet named Alexis Aceves Garcia and her poem The Opposite of Abandonment. This hit my feed this week courtesy of my poem-a-day email subscription. A good storyteller will take you to a place you might be familiar with in your own circumstances, but the scenes they create provide their own meaning. The descriptions she used and the tie-ins to the circle-a-word page were brilliant. Here is a portion of her poem, and you can click on it to see the whole work.

Garcia’s wisdom is beyond her age.

There was debate about what category to put this review under. Stranger Things won due to the unique aspect of this long-running NPR show called A Way with Words, with hosts author/journalist Martha Barnette and lexicographer/linguist Grant Barrett in light-hearted conversation about language. In this episode from 2022, they talk about how to answer a phone, pronounce the term 'Bona Fides,' and Southernisms like "…eat this with my toe in the fire."

If you love words and learning, this is a great show.

Zane Lowe interviews the indie supergroup Boygenius, made up of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, for his podcast. The group recently finished up a successful tour, and they discuss the tour, the album they released while on tour, and what the future may hold for them. It is rare for such talent to look and sound as comfortable as this group does.

Lucy Dacus talks about speaking at her high school, and when she was gathering up her thoughts, she reached out to friends for advice, and one of her friends said this:

Great thought!

Powers - boygenius (Listen for the pause at the beginning).

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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