Bits and Clips for July and August 2019

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Bits and clips is a monthly feature of the best I saw, read or heard on the internet each month. Since I was in the wilderness and off the internet a lot of this time, I’m including both July and August in this post. I hope you enjoy the few links and many memes below, and find something inspiring, educational, interesting, or fun:

Art:

30 Artists Challenge Themselves To Redraw Their Old ‘Crappy’ Drawings, Prove That Practice Makes Perfect

Spirituality:

I’ll See You In Heaven (very short podcast)

Ideas:

What Toni Morrison Taught Me About Parenting

Accept The Awkwardness: How To Make Friends (And Keep Them)

States With Stricter Gun Laws Have Lower Gun Death Rates Because Gun Laws Work

After Sandy Hook, we said never again.And then we let 2200 mass shootings happen.

Books:

60 Books that Will Make You Happier

My Favorite Children’s and Young-Adult Books Eighty-One Masterpieces

The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88

Poetry:

Beautiful and Strange

Hope:

Bored Teenagers Built a Rocket to Launch Into Space—‘It’s Truly a Miracle’

Venice Bans Cruise Ships

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