“Perdona que me tuve que ausentar por un momento”
“Pardon me, I had to step out for a moment”
Natalie Lafourcade #music
#Morning #Sunrise 
“What do we do about free speech when it is so widely abused? We should still do, with renewed vigor, what we have always needed to do: to answer bad speech with better speech, to counter false narratives with better narratives, to answer hate with love, and to believe that the truth can still succeed even in an age of lies. We must defend it fiercely and define it as broadly as possible, so, yes, we should of course defend speech that offends us; otherwise we are not defending free expression at all. Let a thousand and one voices speak in a thousand and one different ways.” ~Salman Rushdie
Lunchtime #read “My fate, over the past many years, has been to drink from the bottle marked Freedom and therefore to write without any restraint those books that came to my mind to write, and now, as I am on the verge of publishing my twenty-second volume, I have to say that on twenty-one of those twenty-two occasions the elixir has been well worth drinking. On the remaining occasion, namely, the publication of my fourth novel, I learned—many of us learned—that freedom can create an equal and opposite reaction from the forces of unfreedom, and I learned, too, how to face the consequences of that reaction, and to continue, as best I could, to be as unfettered an artist as I had always wished to be. I learned, too, that many other writers and artists, exercising their freedom, also faced the forces of unfreedom, and that, in short, freedom can be a dangerous wine to drink. But that made it more necessary, more essential to defend.” ~Salman Rushdie If Peace Were a Prize https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/if-peace-were-a-prize
Last year there was an abundance of Trick or Treaters— my husband drove to the store last minute because I ran out of candy. This year— not as many— maybe the cold temps. And I have a ton of candy left. Oh well— an hour to go. I’m letting them take handfuls at this point. More about the book because I’m bored. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/books/review/dwight-garner-garners-quotations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.60w.w3RB.ELkZZ-JdOhHS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
—Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man
If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
—George Eliot, Middlemarch 
Waiting for Trick or Treaters! Some light reading with a favorite wine. #Halloween #books 
November is looking sharp! Another count down… November 15th is The 74th National Book Awards. I look forward to this every year…love to see all the literary giants dressed up. Rita Dove is receiving the Lifetime Achievement award this year!! I wish I was attending in person. #books
Count down… 📖 November 7th release date! And I registered for an event with the author. “Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to organize information. He goes on to discuss the earliest divisional systems of the Gospels and the segmentation of medieval romances, describing how the chapter took on new purpose when applied to narrative texts and how narrative segmentation gave rise to a host of aesthetic techniques.” #books https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691135199/the-chapter
Yes! My parents get as many of our family crew together as possible every Halloween season. It’s a miracle— the cousins are in a ton of activities & sports— and adults have different work schedules. 🎃
Onto my next audible— for the ride home. #books
https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V0K9NU?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow
Steeler update — sigh. 
Hope you feel better soon!
B for Barbie — but for nostr — Bitcoin! 
Carving #Pumpkins at my parents today 🎃🍁— And the Steelers are catching up 🙏 
Samantha gives her the dress… if I remember correctly. Always found this scene interesting.