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[Readers, this is extremely long — but Pitt the Younger said that it is the duty of every member of a government to make the people aware of dangers to the public safety and the general welfare, and in the Open Town Meeting system, all registered voters are members of the legislative branch of government. We certainly face a grave danger, in my view, in Duxbury, ahead of the attempt to eviscerate our Zoning Bylaw by quite literally a few individuals with a financial interest in doing so at the Special Town Meeting on Feb.

I recently wrote on the pros and cons of group work in class, which I stated that I highly prefer and mostly utilize group work over independent work. I stick with that statement, as I believe it makes the classroom more engaging and keeps majority of students involved in their work by working with each other. However, I also utilize independent work when needed. Independent work is not a punishment, though I will admit I have used it as one in occasions.

Max Clark – Age: 19 – B/T: L/L, 6’0” 205 – Tigers (Low-A) Born: 12/21/2004 in Franklin, IN Draft: 2023, Detroit Tigers, Round: 1, Overall Pick: 3 High School: Franklin Community High School There are lofty expectations for any top five pick, but expectations rise when you get drafted in between Dylan Crews and Wyatt Langford, two of the highest profile positional prospects in recent memory. Tigers fans may be frustrated to see Langford already in the big leagues when Max Clark is just in A-ball, but it’s important for them to remember that Clark was drafted out of high school and not everyone takes a Jackson Holliday esque route to the big leagues.

I am often asked how I live and maintain a peaceful life, and my answer is simple: I always choose peace over chaos. Recently, a family member called me and immediately wanted to share what sounded like drama. I had to politely express my disinterest in the subject and preferred to change the topic. This is an example of me choosing peace when others decide to focus on chaos. Despite my family member's persistence in sharing drama, I continued to assert that I had no interest in what was going on and preferred to mind my own business.

[IMAGES: Olalekan Jeyifous,Crown Heights & Robert McCall, The Prologue and the Promise] What do you think of when you hear the word ‘utopia’? - a better world? A perfect one? Or a nightmare? Solarpunk is sometimes called utopian, but most people also stress it’s not a perfect society. Maybe the better word we’re looking for to describe our movement is protopian. This term was popularised by Kevin Kelly who argues the opposite of dystopia is not a utopian ‘perfect’ society.

Prescript: for the full experience, this is the song I was listening to while writing this. It is called “Vision”, by Paulo Buonvino. I just returned from a great trip to Próspera on the island of Roatán, Honduras. Próspera is the leading model for the kind of next-generation special economic zone that I am eager to bring to Africa. In fact, I recently became the cofounder of Próspera-Africa so that I can bring the model to Africa.

So now we all know two things: The BBC Presenter is Huw Edwards. Who has been hospitalised indefinitely due to mental health. The police have concluded that there is no criminal case to answer. Some of the behaviours discussed have definitely been troubling and will have had an impact on people in Edwards’ life and workplace. He hasn’t been exonerated as such - and despite what we know in fact one, condemnation of him in the public arena - on TV and on social media - rages on.

Recently we read a preprint of a paper on a topic I am very interested in, and went through quite a range of emotions from eager anticipation and nervousness (oh my this is totally what we’re trying to do) to relief (this is a totally worthless study, it tells us nothing), to frustration (I cannot unsee it now that I’ve read it) to sadness (this makes everyone worse off, the authors, us who have read it, and the public, because of course this has been picked up by the media).

The first week after my breakup, I listened to psychologist Guy Winch’s Ted Talk over and over. Then I read his book on the same topic, How to Fix a Broken Heart. (You can read more of my thoughts on it here.) He writes about society’s tendency to dismiss emotional pain in adults, specifically the deep pain of heartbreak and pet loss. Winch says, “Surviving heartbreak isn’t a journey, it’s a fight.