~Dr. Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century"

Thai green curry meatballs with carrots 🥕, potatoes 🥔, and rice 🌾

"Do not obey in advance...Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy." ~Dr. Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century"

Anand Giridharadas nails the mood. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

Japanese curry 🤤 🍛

Autumn
Jane Hirshfield
The Paris Review, issue no. 109 (Winter 1988)

Again the wind
flakes gold-leaf from the trees
and the painting darkens—
as if a thousand penitents
kissed an icon
till it thinned
back to bare wood,
without diminishment.