Lenten Posts
Lent starts tomorrow, and I hope to undertake a Lenten project, despite this project having little to do with penance and self-denial. I hope to post something on this blog each day during Lent. That's 40 days of posts, and writing this here makes me wonder if I have taken leave of my senses, or, more likely, have vastly overestimated my ability to persevere.
My posts will very likely be quite fragmented and varied, and may not be as well-written as I would like. The plan is to write anyway. I have no particular topics in mind. The idea is to go back to writing on this blog the kind of content that has landed on my Facebook posts in recent months (years?).
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I listened to the State of the Union address by President Biden this evening (Livestream on the New York Times website). I'll leave it to others to analyze it, for the most part. While I sometimes wish the President enunciated more clearly, when I remember that he had a stuttering problem as a child, I realize that just being able to get through a sentence without painful faltering is quite a feat. There was a bit of undignified heckling from people who should know better than to disgrace their office in such a way, but, by and large, I could listen without visceral distaste. It's good to have an adult at the podium during a presidential address. Promises? Clearly won't be able to deliver on all of them. Aspirations? Mostly good ideals, in my opinion.
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Hiromi and I had tickets for a Community Concert tonight. I decided to stay home, reasoning that I'd rather have a quiet evening tending to some of my seed starting tasks than listening to country music. Hiromi enjoyed it though, so maybe I would have liked it better than I thought I would.
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I've been trying to keep my brain exercised in recent weeks by playing Wordle online. I recommend it to anyone who likes words. For those who are unfamiliar with the game, just go to this website, read the directions and get started. I'll paste my statistics summary below and explain what it means. You should know that the game involves guessing a secret word in six guesses or less, basing your guesses on feedback that comes automatically.
This screen shot reveals that I've played the game 45 times, and I've guessed the word every time. I have guessed it in three guesses 14 times, in four 13 times, and in five 12 times. Twice I've guessed it on the second try, and four times it took six guesses. I doubt that anyone ever guesses it on the first try.
Someone in my extended family set up a Facebook Messenger group called Wordles with Friends, where a group of us shares our results. This adds to the fun.
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I'll copy here a Facebook post on my wall today. It references Ukraine particularly. There's a great deal that one could say about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, but I'll leave it with this for today.
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