Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969) | Open Culture

Conducted in Herbert’s Fairfax, California home in 1969 by literature professor and science-fiction enthusiast Willis E. McNelly (who would later compile The Dune Encyclopedia), the interview goes down a number of intellectual byways that will be fascinating to curious fans. In its eighty minutes, Herbert reflects on everything from corporations to hippies, the tarot to Zen, and Lawrence of Arabia to John F. Kennedy. The late president’s then-just-beginning sanctification in America gets him talking about one of Dune’s threads in particular, about the “way a messiah is created in our society.” The elevation of a messiah is an act of myth-making, after all, and “man must recognize the myth he is living in.”

Source: Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969) | Open Culture

The prisoner who shaped Torrance, Boyle Heights & Little Tokyo – AsAmNews

From George Nakano family photo album. Shigeko, Tosh and George Nakano in front row. Parents Sumi and Shigeto in the rearGeorge Nakano competes in track and field

…George was passionate about his curriculum and sought a challenge. He wanted to take algebra but his teacher failed to provide a recommendation for him. Despite being one of the top two students in math class and obtaining A’s in every class, George had one disadvantage; he was a minority student. Before the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Holleback and LAUSD schools had an unwritten policy to direct minority students to vocational school…

Source: The prisoner who shaped Torrance, Boyle Heights & Little Tokyo – AsAmNews

Catharine Rampell: Immigration Boosted Our Economy by $7 Trillion | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, “we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.”

Got that? The surprise increase in immigration has led a multitrillion-dollar windfall for both the overall economy and federal tax coffers…

Source: Catharine Rampell: Immigration Boosted Our Economy by $7 Trillion | Diane Ravitch’s blog

World Food Program says IDF blocked trucks delivering food to Gaza – UPI.com

The World Food Program said its delivery of crucial aid into Gaza was blocked by Israeli authorities as the U.N. reports starvation among Palestinian civilians.

The United Nations organization said on Tuesday that a convoy of 14 trucks carrying food to northern Gaza was turned away by the Israel Defence Forces after waiting three hours at a checkpoint in Wadi Gaza…

Source: World Food Program says IDF blocked trucks delivering food to Gaza – UPI.com

Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

   I really enjoyed the second reading of this book, The Hunger Games, which is the first in the Hunger Games series, (well, I enjoyed reading it the first time, but it was even better in the original English, the second reading around), and this cool fan art placed in the Public Domain by a kind artist, Cor-Sa, whose original page appears to be gone, now, via Wikimedia Commons.  This is the second or third time I’ve read this book, but my first time reading it in English…

Source: Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Comforting Thought: Sunrise by Mary Oliver – Content Catnip


You can

die for it –

an idea

or the world. People

have done so,

brilliantly,

letting

their small bodies be bound

to the stake,

creating an unforgettable

fury of light. But

this morning,

climbing the familiar hills

in the familiar

fabric of the dawn, I thought

of China

and India

and Europe, and I thought

how the sun

blazes for everyone just

so joyfully

as it rises

under the lashes

of my own eyes, and I thought

I am so many!

What is my name?

What is the name

of the deep breath I would take

over and over

for all of us? Call it

Whatever you want, it is

happiness, it is another one

of the ways to enter

fire.

 

Mary Oliver

Source: Comforting Thought: Sunrise by Mary Oliver – Content Catnip

Spinach Florentine Lasagna – In Dianes Kitchen

Spinach Lasagna Florentine is so delicious and it makes a 9” x 13” panful. My favorite thing about this recipe, other than the taste, is that you can prepare this recipe early in the day so all you have to do is cook it at supper time, if you want to.

To see my step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card click below.

Source: Spinach Florentine Lasagna

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