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Friendship Suffices

"If there is something like a political life to be, to remain for us, in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships. Mutual friendships always. I and you, and I hope a third one, out of which perhaps community can grow. Because perhaps here we can find what the good is."

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The Hiding Man of Griffith Park

You can find the artist's work all over the Eastside: In Silver Lake (where a sign says DO NOT ACT LIKE A TRASH NO LOUD NO SPIT NO TOUCHING NO FIRE NO LITTER NO DRUG A HIDING MAN WILL GRAB YOU), in Los Feliz (where one sign reads HE DO SEE YOU HE TAKE PICTURES A HIDING MAN WILL GRAB ON YOU SOON YOU WILL BE GOT), in Atwater (where a sign warns NO DRUGS OR BMS).

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The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

When we listen to music with others, the great rhythms of our bodies — heartbeat, breathing, hormonal fluctuations, sexual cycles, bodily motion — once separate, merge into a synchronized pattern. We sense that we are part of something larger, a community, a pattern of energy, an idea of the times — or what we might call the sacred.

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‘The Worst Neighbor Ever’

The housed neighbors began to see things, and hear things, things they hadn't seen or heard so much before.