Holiday Traditions - Jessica Martin - Medium
Photo by the author, 2021 When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it o...
Holiday Traditions - Jessica Martin - Medium
Photo by the author, 2021 When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it o...
Holiday Traditions - Jessica Martin - Medium
Photo by the author, 2021 When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it o...
Holiday Traditions - Jessica Martin - Medium
Photo by the author, 2021 When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it o...
Can 2022 Please Be The Year We Have Less Meetings? - Index
It’s time to think about how they really impact on people https://justinel999.medium.com/?source=post_page-----7d0ed68e4926----------------------------------- Justine L https://index.medium.com/oh-please-can-2022-be-the-year-we-have-less-meetings-7d0ed68e4926?source=post_page-----7d0ed68e4926----------------------------------- Dec 15, 2021·4 min readPhoto: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash I’m pretty sure that I’ve attended more meetings in the last twenty months than in the thirty or so years of my ...
Can 2022 Please Be The Year We Have Less Meetings? - Index
It’s time to think about how they really impact on people https://justinel999.medium.com/?source=post_page-----7d0ed68e4926----------------------------------- Justine L https://index.medium.com/oh-please-can-2022-be-the-year-we-have-less-meetings-7d0ed68e4926?source=post_page-----7d0ed68e4926----------------------------------- Dec 15, 2021·4 min readPhoto: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash I’m pretty sure that I’ve attended more meetings in the last twenty months than in the thirty or so years of my ...
The Inescapable Neoliberal Bias Behind ‘Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell'
Examining the philosophy of the adorably cute science YouTube channel Image; Twitter The YouTube channel *Kurzgesagt *[kurts·guh·zaakt] — In a Nutshell advertises itself as a science-based educational platform. It has over 17 million subscribers, and each one of its videos averages millions of views. It's one of the most-watched science channels globally, and it covers every topic, from the origins of consciousness, to how to create solar engines. CEO Philipp Dettmer claims that the chan...
The Inescapable Neoliberal Bias Behind ‘Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell'
Examining the philosophy of the adorably cute science YouTube channel Image; Twitter The YouTube channel *Kurzgesagt *[kurts·guh·zaakt] — In a Nutshell advertises itself as a science-based educational platform. It has over 17 million subscribers, and each one of its videos averages millions of views. It's one of the most-watched science channels globally, and it covers every topic, from the origins of consciousness, to how to create solar engines. CEO Philipp Dettmer claims that the chan...
The Best Books I Read in 2021 Are All About Weirdos
Maybe you’ll want to read them too, but it’s OK if you don’t. https://evepeyser.medium.com/?source=post_page-----88ec444b6835----------------------------------- Eve Peyser https://evepeyser.medium.com/the-best-books-i-read-in-2021-are-all-about-weirdos-88ec444b6835?source=post_page-----88ec444b6835----------------------------------- Dec 10, 2021·6 min readI might be a professional writer or whatever, but for many years, I have felt deep shame over the fact that I don’t read enough books. It’s...
The Best Books I Read in 2021 Are All About Weirdos
Maybe you’ll want to read them too, but it’s OK if you don’t. https://evepeyser.medium.com/?source=post_page-----88ec444b6835----------------------------------- Eve Peyser https://evepeyser.medium.com/the-best-books-i-read-in-2021-are-all-about-weirdos-88ec444b6835?source=post_page-----88ec444b6835----------------------------------- Dec 10, 2021·6 min readI might be a professional writer or whatever, but for many years, I have felt deep shame over the fact that I don’t read enough books. It’s...
