The tree was filled with packages underneath it this year. Many of those were books and we have much to read and think about in our leisures hours this week.
On Tyranny byTimothy Snyder was perhaps the most important. We all received a copy from my sister and her wife. It's a must read at this crucial time in our history.
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,” wrote Orwell, tends to be “uninterested in what happens in the real world.” Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism “has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.” A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better. Democracy”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder will be speaking at the Yonkers Public Library at Getty Square on Sunday January 7, 2018 at 12 noon to the CD16 Indivisible Group. Buy a copy and come have him sign it.
We also received "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn - another essential read to support resistance to tyranny.
We also received The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman and Sibley Birds East - a birding guide as Dean and I have become fanatics because of our feeder and suet cages behind our kitchen window.
Also: Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil in the Blues Tradition by Adam Gussow and Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig.
On Tyranny byTimothy Snyder was perhaps the most important. We all received a copy from my sister and her wife. It's a must read at this crucial time in our history.
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,” wrote Orwell, tends to be “uninterested in what happens in the real world.” Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism “has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.” A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better. Democracy”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder will be speaking at the Yonkers Public Library at Getty Square on Sunday January 7, 2018 at 12 noon to the CD16 Indivisible Group. Buy a copy and come have him sign it.
We also received "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn - another essential read to support resistance to tyranny.
We also received The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman and Sibley Birds East - a birding guide as Dean and I have become fanatics because of our feeder and suet cages behind our kitchen window.
Also: Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil in the Blues Tradition by Adam Gussow and Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig.
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