Sunday Shares | 14JUN2020

Happy Flag Day! Coincidentally, it’s also Army Day—hooah! We took down our Colorado state flag this morning and put up our newly purchased United States flag. I did hesitate to buy an American flag, though. I thought about buying an Army flag instead, which doesn’t have nearly as stringent rules as the American flag. It’s a lot of responsibility, but I’m excited to learn more about a specific flag for a change, although U.S. Flag Code is no joke.


PRODUCTION


Drawing

Henderson Family Flag (5-8)

Summers Family Flag

Commonwealth of Virginia Flag Redesign

Writing

I’m working on a long-form piece related to white privilege, racism, and the Confederacy. I’m really excited to share it with ya’ll. After publishing this Sunday Shares, I’ll link to my Google Drive doc in case you want to provide feedback before I finalize the essay. I’ve loved doing all this research to form my own opinions.


CONSUMPTION


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Video: James Veitch Is A Terrible Roommate – CONAN on TBS | Team Coco (YouTube)

Listen

Artist: Vexillology | Deadmau5 (Spotify)

I actually found this last week after going down the vexillology wormhole. I just searched Spotify for the word, wondering if anyone had done music related to it (I honestly don’t know what I expected to find…), and I happened across Deadmau5!

Podcast: This week on Shark Tank – Mark Cuban joins to talk UBI | Yang Speaks (Apple Podcasts | Spotify)

Andrew Yang—former presidential candidate and founder of Humanity Forward—interviews Mark Cuban, and they discuss how they would change the structure of government and voting as well as how people interact with the government.

Learn

Concept: Dutch Baby Pancakes

Shalene calls them German pancakes, which didn’t sound right—plus, I had never had them in Germany. I heard them called Dutch Babies when I first had them. After a quick Google search, it turns out that all of those names are correct, however, it’s definitely an American dish (Wikipedia). By the way, what is it with our habit of naming things after other ethnicities, but then it’s truly an American concoction?

Ponder

Idea: Overton Window (Wikipedia)

It represents the spectrum of acceptable political views at any given time. I had never heard of this until someone mentioned it in a tweet, but it seems extremely relevant given the political discourse happening over the fast-paced social media platforms these days.

Joseph Overton was the director of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and this term was coined after he died.

Overton Window diagram.svg
By HydrargyrumOwn work, based on discussion here and diagram here., CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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