As a historian, I’m skilled at “reading” the emotions of past events to get a read on how people experienced them or reasoned their way through them.
The current boomerang political craziness careening around right now is making ME crazy.
Please, folks.
Take a breath.
As my son (now in his mid-30s) pointed out, "The Fifth of November" is about to take on more meaning than Guy Fawkes could have imagined.
And I'm a poll worker.
I'm not without concerns, but I will be there to support democracy.
Fellow historian of a more amateur status- a nice yell of "Calm TF down!" is required here.
I'm just going to be happy that the science experiments of the day went perfectly, and the local theater guild is going to put my historical millinery skills to use.
Sometimes, thinking small is best.
Here’s a morning breath, appropriate for the day. When I found and unfolded the scrap of newspaper deep inside a large, 18th century book published in Paris it took a bit to realize what it was. I thought it was pretty cool at the time. bsky.app/profile/poly...
I thought about this tonight, that we must be processing things at a much different rate than the Germans for example could have due to communication and travel technology.