Orts #837

a good-news story from the NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/nyregion/long-island-vegetable-orchestra.html

Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life. It’s only there that it can be won or lost.... There is no route map of the way to truth. The only thing that counts is to make the venture of total dedication....  One must accept everything patiently and fearlessly. Man is condemned to life, not to death… There’s only one thing certain. That is one’s own inadequacy. One must start from that.
   — Franz Kafka, quoted in Conversations with Kafka, by Gustav Janouch

 

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from the "if you're not outraged you're not paying attention" department:
(trump related)

http://nyti.ms/2wCOdjv

What Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen, with major support from the US and UK, and lesser support from other countries, including Canada:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/opinion/columnists/yemen-famine-cholera.html?src=me