John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The wisdom of tea: “The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.” 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025“Building Empathy in a Fractured World”. Seems like a good time to read this…. 110
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025You know your kids are in a good school when a senior administrator walks around offering you “pocket poems.” I picked two good ones. 🤓 🥰 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I ❤️ my local NY public library (100th St between Columbus & Amsterdam). Wonderful service. Super clean and warm. Stewarded by caring and kind staff here. 🤓 📚 🥰 031
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I mention I missed someone today and was sent this Sesame Street video with Andrew Garfield. How lovely. 🥲 youtu.be/EVlXbiP4x2E?...youtu.beAndrew Garfield and Elmo Explain Grief | Sesame WorkshopYouTube video by Sesame Workshop 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025With so many posts about libraries in my feed I thought I would share the latest book I borrowed…about a library. “What you are looking for is in the library” So true… 📚 🇯🇵🤓. 010
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Freak coincidence? Or…“The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a cognitive bias where you notice something you recently learned about, and then seem to encounter it more frequently, even though the actual frequency hasn't changed.” 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025TIL that “sitting in the catbird seat” has nothing to do with a cat. (I used the expression with my daughter, who looked at me like I’m a living anachronism, and realized I didn’t know where the expression came from.) What other wondrous surprises await me? 🤓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird...en.wikipedia.orgCatbird seat - Wikipedia 110
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025One of the first Gmail ads I might be interested in. Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦 👏 🥰 010
Reposted by John StepperLongden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025'Spring has returned: the Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart' — Rainer Maria Rilke 14815
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Cultural differences summed up as we pack snacks for the plane ✈️ PBJ for me. 🥜 🇺🇸 Rice balls for my wife. 🍙 🇯🇵 🥰 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Bless the good people who put dinosaur tracks in wet cement on 95th Street, leading from their front door. 🥰 🦖 Makes me smile every time I walk by. 😊 140
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Yay indeed. :-) Thank you for all that you share here. Makes social media seem…nice again. :-) 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 05/03/2025“‘Cathy, I’m lost,’ I said, though I knew she was sleeping. ‘I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.’” This lyric is 57 years old, and yet it captures the poignant despair of so many men today. HT @forgottenpoets.bsky.social for attuning me to poetry in life. 🙏 music.apple.com/us/album/ame...music.apple.comAmerica by Simon & Garfunkel on Apple MusicSong · 1968 · Duration 3:35 120
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Just started this and it’s fantastic. Insightful, useful, and very funny. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Chilling. I’ve heard this from friends who work in universities, NGOs, and non-profits. 000
Reposted by John StepperDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline. 887261225236
Reposted by John StepperH. P. Friendcraft @starcravingmad.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Nikita Gill. 41211398
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025We may succeed (by some measures) on our own, but “all flourishing is mutual.” HT to the NY Public Library for this book. A nice weekend read. 🤓 000
Reposted by John StepperJoe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This I love. And resemble more each day. 1555417808
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I’ve done this (after, I admit, checking that no one was watching). Worked like a charm. 🌲 🌳 😊 010
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Beautiful. Loneliness can be a world-class marathoner. As are self-doubt, fear, anxiety, and sadness. But oh to occasionally leave them “panting behind you on some street corner”! “A victory!” indeed. 011
Reposted by John StepperPapa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025 493932692
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025“Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that comforts us.” 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I found this fascinating. Not just for the stories and science and de Waal’s insights and personal charm, but for how polarized the review comments are. IMHO it’s useful to examine our closest evolutionary relatives’ gender differences and similarities as a backdrop to our own. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Research for “The Best of Men” program I’m working on. 🤓🤓🤓 011
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Insightful interview with an evolutionary anthropologist and author of “Life of Dads”, Dr. Anna Manchin, on men and fatherhood. Fascinating. youtu.be/4vN8XfMlWxI?...youtu.beWhy Fathers Matter - Dr Anna MachinYouTube video by Chris Williamson 000
Reposted by John StepperForgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024 "I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry 308174342979
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024“We estimate that 3 % of the total U.S. adult population & 15 % of the African American adult male population has ever been to prison; people with felony convictions account for 8 % of all adults & 33 % of the African American adult male population.” (2010 data) www.publicwelfare.org/wp-content/u...publicwelfare.org 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Incarceration numbers so high you think, “This can’t possibly be true!” And yet it is. Source: Men without Work by Nicholas Eberstadt. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 07/12/2024“Finally I saw that the worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning. And sang.” Amen. 030
Reposted by John StepperskELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Oh man, this really got me. 😭❤️ 401232143
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This platform is a wonderful serendipity engine for discovering beautiful poems I would never in a million years find on my own. Like this one. 020