Category — Microblog Mondays

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35 years ago… I think it was 35 years ago. I’m getting fuzzy with the year. While I could look this up pretty easily, I don’t feel like moving boxes around. Anyway, 35 years-ish ago, young Melissa stood on the bimah and had her Bat Mitzvah.

The first Bat Mitzvah was in 1922, though it didn’t become commonplace until the 1960s. 1960s! Isn’t that bizarre to think about now? My generation was the first generation where it was commonplace to have a Bat Mitzvah. The only women I know in my parents’ generation who had a Bat Mitzvah did so as an adult. And one generation later, I could turn around and tutor my kids for their B’nai Mitzvah.

Change comes slowly and quickly.

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This is super relaxing to watch. I changed the settings to only include nature sounds, but play with it because maybe you want years to pass by in hours vs. minutes or control the weather with the click of a button.

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Did you know this was a thing on an iPhone? I didn’t. You can aim your camera app at a page of text, and it will convert it into something called Live Text. (You can also get there from the Notes app.) You highlight the section you want, click copy, and then drop it in an email or note. How brilliant is that?

How I copy quotes from a library book pic.twitter.com/y9rTBeVOrj

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) April 12, 2022

I tried it with handwriting, but it was kind of a mess. But with a book or magazine, it’s brilliant.

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There is a burrito place in Massachusetts that I went to on my first day of grad school — technically before classes began — with two fellow students I met in the department lounge. I loved this burrito place so much (maybe because in that moment I felt so happy to have met two new people and felt a sense of belonging) that I went back at least once a week for the next four years.

The menu has changed over the years, but every time I’m back in the area, we go there and I ask them to make me a burrito that was on their menu twenty years ago. They have all of the ingredients, so they’re happy to recreate it. And then I spend the next half hour wrapped up in a taste memory. They recreate it perfectly, and I want to cry whenever I access those memories through the first bite.

I wish there was a way to capture taste moments the way we capture visual moments with a photograph or auditory moments with a recording.

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I just found out about the coolest museum downtown, a word museum focusing on how we learn words and use words and invent words.

LOOK AT THIS!

And they have a restaurant and a gift shop for word nerds. I feel so lucky that I live near such a cool place.

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