8/11/2019

Focus by Arthur Miller

“You don’t understand,” Newman said shortly, pressing his trembling hand against his stomach. “It’s not what you’ve done, it’s what others of your people have done.”

Mr Finkelstein started at him a long time. “In other words, when you look at me you don’t see me.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean what I said. You look at me and you don’t see me. You see something else. What do you see? That’s what I don’t understand. Against me you got nothing, you say. Then why are you trying to get rid of me? What do you see that makes you so mad when you look at me?”

What an extraordinarily simple way to think of bias and racism ———

What do you see when you look at me? You don’t see me.

The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer by Elizabeth Blackburn

Sleep, exercise but not too much, MEDITATE. Don’t buy into products that increase your telomere length because they probably increase cell regeneration in ways they don’t understand (aka cancer). A quick, easy read.

Your cells listen to your mind.

When You Read This by Mary Adkins

I read this for book club. It was moderately (or less so) amusing while reading it, and I’ve since forgotten all about it. I wouldn’t recommend.