Twitter Highlights: May 17

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Summer 2020 Blog Fest

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Once again, I had something I really needed to keep here, so I'm doing Sunday highlights!

Here's what I need to keep track of, a piece on Rumi in the New Yorker: The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi (a good piece, but the erasure of Bawa from this article is also odd; anyway, all stuff for me to ponder as I work on Sufi materials later this summer, which will include Rumi of course, and also Bawa!)

Something nice from Smithsonian: Healing Power of Art.

This is cool from M-W! I knew about chipmunk being Native American, but not woodchuck: 'Muskrat,' 'Helpmate,' and 6 More Folk Etymologies

Very cool Polari YouTube! How gay men used to speak:

Look at this: Emily Wilson reading the Odyssey!

Here is [part of] Odyssey Book 2, read by me, Emily Wilson. Props used: sunglasses, goddess headband, Phillies hat, vessel for pouring things, Athena's spear/wand. https://t.co/9MJYjx9tWk via @YouTube

— Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) May 16, 2020

And here's a feel-good moment: wow!

I love this 😂

Normal Black father things. ❤

An image the media doesn't paint. pic.twitter.com/fnVOn7KCzo

— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) May 17, 2020

And... lithophone!

Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specializes in prehistoric music, here he demonstrates a Lithophone. 🔊 pic.twitter.com/xqaov8Q8LZ

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) May 16, 2020

I also had a total fan-girl moment: Jerry Saltz retweeted me (OMG). I had pinged him because I used his NPR interview as an example of how to embed NPR audio in a blog post. :-)