JFC I don’t want to ask maps anything. Just give me directions and show me establishments. I don’t need maps to plan my weekend.
Jennifer Stoloff
@jenstoly.bsky.social
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Housing researcher. Sociology PhD (UNC). Transportation cyclist. Movie lover. Fiction reader. Former federal worker, current consultant. Silver Spring, MD.
![He [Mumford] complained, “I reach for you [now] and what do I touch? A housing expert. I call for you in the stillness of the night and what do I hear: The percentage of vacancies in Laubengang [garden] apartment houses in Germany compared with cottages.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kor2nxystkborrytjw4eundq/bafkreidbynt2k7hr34r257ede5quik3xyrxoope5kzm3a3s3sf73np4pz4)
![". . . [T]he kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. . . . Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. . . . I feel that its deepest roots are in the transcendental, just as the roots of human responsibility are, though of course I can’t – unlike Christians, for instance — say anything about the transcendental. . . .
“Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpromising the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. In short, I think that the deepest and most important form of hope, the only one that can keep us above water and urge us to good works, and the only true source of the breathtaking dimension of the human spirit and its efforts, is something we get, as it were, from ‘elsewhere.’ It is also this hope, above all, that gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pghxhhzn2fcihyploqv4ijt/bafkreihrelmpb2zjox6ictgt6r24jyaeants5t4rc2m3hyqgmfgieqrvnq)
![The origins of the company can be traced back to Wertheim, Germany, where Brunn started a wholesale spice and seasoning business selling to food industries, seeing an opportunity as spices were in especially short supply amidst hyperinflation in the aftermath of World War I. 9] Due to rising antisemitism as the Nazi Party rose to power, the company moved to Frankfurt, Germany; 1°1 however, on the night of November 9, 1938, a massive pogrom against Jews, known as Kristallnacht, led to Brunn being arrested by Nazi soldiers and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. "
According to Brunn's son, Gustav's wife paid a large sum of money to a lawyer for him to be released; as they had already applied for and received American visas, they were able to escape with their two children to New York City and later Baltimore, Maryland, where Brunn had family.!'! There, having brought with him only a small spice grinder, 8! Brunn founded the Baltimore Spice Company and produced the
"Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning", which was later renamed Old Bay. 12[13]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ieluoyrr7apgy6rw3uo5zk3v/bafkreify3g7uamukdur4vdensoicfpobn24kjhshztjblwk7ph6ytyvora)
