things

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Things I read: a couple of them the other day, that I thought were important. mincot, speaking of the hoopla surrounding Michael Jackson’s funeral and memorial, said, ” It’s like watching the medieval popular veneration of a saint.”

I’m reading Melissa Anelli’s history of Harry Potter as phenomenon, and she mentions that after J.K. Rowling said, in response to an audience question, that she’d always thought of Dumbledore as day, one man came out that very night, right there in Carnegie Hall.

The message I take from these two things together, is tht humans are desperate to find someone to identify with and look up to. (Even if you’re a fictional character, which I suspect is as true of the public persona Jackson’s fans idolize as it is of Albus Dumbledore.) So be brave and speak your truth because you don’t know when that might be you. And you might really change someone’s life.

Things I saw: one yesterday, on my commute home, that I thought was awful. A woman was riding a scooter with two kinds, twin boys maybe 6 or younger, one in front of her and one behind. That’s not the horrible thing. Seeing kids on scooters isn’t that rare here, and while it may not be ideal, people transport their family as they can and I’m not going to presume to criticize. (Also, crazy as the driving seems here, I actually see *fewer* accidents here than on American roads.) The part I thought was horrible was that the woman was wearing a helmet and the kids weren’t. Nice priorities, lady.

Things I want to do: go home.

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