Red Apple and Bookworm

The background in the image comes from an ephemera pack from Stacy Carpenter @journal_as_you_wish

Watching:

My daughter and I finished Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night. 

I started watching the Peacemaker series on Max. Peacemaker is a minor character from the DC comic book universe Suicide Squad. Peacemaker takes himself entirely too seriously; this type of humor has been around at least since Shakespeare's greatest character, Falstaff.

Reading: 

I see Jonathan Haidt has a new book published today called The Anxious Generation that I am curious to read. Haidt argues that we have a mental health crisis among young people now. He, apparently, sees several different factors that, together, have led to this crisis: fewer children playing outside unsupervised, the rise of the Internet, the ubiquitouty of smart phones, the addictive nature first of Instagram and now TikTok.

I continue to read The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. Yesterday I read a story I really enjoyed called We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters from a Class of Fourth-Graders. In 1951, a boy was hit by a car and sent to a hospital. The teacher of the boy's class asked all the children to write him a letter. The story is an analysis of those letters, sixty years later. Rather than focusing on the emotions of the boy or the children, the story is an extremely pedantic analysis of the language in the letters.

How are you filling the time today? Please share in the comments.