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• At the Sunrise Café...
• Here are 6 TikToks I've selected for you. Let me know what you like.
• "Since my bypass surgery I’ve been haunted by the presence of a terrible knowledge that is just out of reach..."
• "On every trail leading to the high country in the Whites, there are signs prominently posted that state, 'STOP. The area ahead has the worst weather in America. Many have died there...'"
• "Afghanistan was rocked by its deadliest earthquake in decades on Wednesday when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the country's east, killing more than 1,000 people..."

At the Sunrise Café... Posted: 22 Jun 2022 05:15 PM PDT ... you can write about whatever you want.

Here are 6 TikToks I've selected for you. Let me know what you like. Posted: 22 Jun 2022 05:07 PM PDT 1. A downplayed gift. 2. Fear of heights. 3. The opposite of fear of heights. 4. Paul McCartney, on horseback, shows you his sequoia. 5. A man imitates that chickadee you liked so much yesterday. 6. Is it too weird to skip small talk?

"Since my bypass surgery I’ve been haunted by the presence of a terrible knowledge that is just out of reach..." Posted: 22 Jun 2022 09:23 AM PDT "... my brain can't access this pain but my nerves, bone, muscle, tissue keep the fact of it with them, I feel.... I had been... reading three newspapers a day, reading many magazines, and in general, trying to stay informed. But more or less overnight, staying informed ceased to matter to me. Though I subscribed to the New York Times in three cities I put it aside one day and didn't read another issue for seven months. From being a living person with a distinct personality I began to feel more or less like an outline of that person—and then even the outline began to fade, erased by what had happened inside. I felt as if I was vanishing—or more accurately, had vanished.... The thing, more than any other, that convinced me I had in some sense died was that I couldn't read. I went to my bookshops but could not connect with the books.... I had read every day of my life... It was the stablest of all pleasures, and now it was gone. The fact was that even then I could read professionally.... But read for pleasure, no. I had floated down the Nile and out to sea.... The problem, I eventually realized, was that reading is a form of looking outward, beyond the self, and that, for a long time, I couldn't do—the protest from inside was too powerful. My inability to externalize seemed to be organ based, as if the organs to which violence had been done were protesting so much that I couldn't attend to anything else." From "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond" by Larry McMurtry (published in 2001).

"On every trail leading to the high country in the Whites, there are signs prominently posted that state, 'STOP. The area ahead has the worst weather in America. Many have died there...'" Posted: 22 Jun 2022 07:34 AM PDT "'... from exposure, even in the summer. Turn back now if the weather is bad.' The high country forecast for last weekend was for snow, ice, and winds over 60 mph. It was accurate.... I've only been hiking the Whites for about 50 years, so I'm still learning about them, but I have learned through hard experience to respect the Presidential Range in particular. Last weekend was clearly a time to stay low. My condolences to this man's family. That's the highest rated comment on "Hiker who texted his wife he was 'in trouble' dies after rescue" (WaPo).  "Whites" = White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. From the article:  New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials said weather, particularly on the summits, was harsh — freezing temperatures, rain, sleet, snow and 50-to-60-mph sustained winds with gusts over 80 mph. By midafternoon Saturday, officers had received a number of calls from hikers who found themselves unprepared "and instead of turning back or bailing out to safer elevations, they continued on and ultimately called 911 expecting a rescue," officials said in the news release.  A quote from the man's wife: "He's not a quitter — that probably actually got him into trouble this time."

"Afghanistan was rocked by its deadliest earthquake in decades on Wednesday when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the country's east, killing more than 1,000 people..." Posted: 22 Jun 2022 07:23 AM PDT "... and wounding many more, according to a regional official.... This comes as almost half the country's population -- 20 million people -- are experiencing acute hunger, according to a United Nations-backed report in May. It is a situation compounded by the Taliban seizing power in August 2021, which led the United States and its allies freezing about $7 billion of the country's foreign reserves and cutting off international funding."  CNN reports.

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