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Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal
 There are experiences in life that strike at the center of our being, sundering us in half with unforeseen pain for which we were entirely unbraced. Because we know that this is possible — from the lives of others, from our own past experience, from the history of the heart recorded in our literature — we are always living with the awareness, conscious or unconscious, that life can sunder us at any given point without warning. This is the price of consciousness, which makes living both difficult and urgent. “Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment,” Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914–June 27, 2001) writes in her almost unbearably wonderful 1972 masterpiece The Summer Book (public library), written in the wake of her mother’s death.
Jansson’s observation here is literal: Her protagonist — a little girl named Sophia, who is living on a small Nordic island with her elderly grandmother after her mother’s death — finds herself thinking about what it’s like to be a worm, fabled to go on living two new lives when split in half.
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Her documentary “The Making of a Maestro: From Castelfranco to Carnegie Hall,” the story of the conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, won first place in the North American Travel Journalists Association’s competition for travel videos in 2018. WorkWorkWorkWorkAmazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellersAmazon said the tool uses retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, a popular AI industry framework that combines generative AI with long-established methods of information retrieval. It allows the pulling of certain seller-specific information from Amazon's internal systems without storing it or including it in model training data. WorkJetBlue to open airport lounges in New York and Boston in battle for big spendersSouthwest Airlines plans to offer seats with extra legroom to increase revenue, the biggest change in its more than five decades of flying. Southwest will provide more details about its strategy at an investor day next week. Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines have also launched bundles that include seats with more space and earlier boarding. WorkWorkWorkThe Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi BikesAnother, created in 2016, is a program called Bike Angels, in which Citi Bike users move bikes in exchange for points that could be cashed in for swag like water bottles and backpacks, membership discounts and gift cards. This being New York, where even charitable activities quickly develop overtones of competition, a handful of users started racing to see who could win the most points. Citi Bike called them Power Angels. WorkOpinion | The Fed's Big Rate Cut Wasn't Political. It Was an Economic No-Brainer.It’s true that the Fed has some very smart economists on its staff. But there are plenty of smart economists outside the Fed, too. The implicit declaration that inflation has been defeated won’t come as news to anyone who has, for example, been following Mark Zandi at Moody’s or Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs, who have been telling us for months that inflation is under control. WorkOpinion | Why JD Vance Dropped Into My InboxVance came in for it in the same way that I did back in the day. Despite his efforts to thread the needle, more than a few Appalachians read the book as disrespectful, condescending and disloyal. Sarah Jones at The New Republic judged Vance’s main point to be simply “All hillbillies need to do is work hard, maybe do a stint in the military, and they can end up at Yale Law School like he did.” WorkOpinion | Why Can't Kamala Harris Just Say This?Why do so many vice presidents run for president? Sure, it’s because we’ve been eyeing and ogling that gilded station up close and, in most cases, we had designs on it before we settled for first runner-up. But it’s also because our proximity to power has given us an extraordinary trove of information, an unrivaled exposure to expertise and a privileged series of lessons. We’re better prepared than we once were — we’re smarter. And smarter means we’ve revisited many of our past assumptions. How could it be any other way? WorkIsrael Bombards Lebanon After Hezbollah Vowed RetaliationAn elaborate ruse: The operation was complex and long in the making, according to the officials. Israel established a shell company posing as an international pager producer which began shipping to Lebanon in the summer of 2022. These pagers contained batteries laced with an explosive. Read the full story behind the Israeli operation. WorkNike CEO John Donahoe is out, replaced by company veteran Elliott Hill"He is up against a tough environment in terms of morale at the company, rebuilding some of that culture that the company has lost," said Ramirez. "He does have quite some work to do across various teams but I think that's what needs to be the focus, its culture and therefore, enabling the ability to have better products and newness." WorkDisney to ditch Slack following July data breach "Companies also have to take the right measure to prevent phishing attacks and to lockdown their employees' social engineering," he added. "So, we can do our part, but our customers also have to do their part." WorkWorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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