'The Disappearance of the Public Bench', Gabrielle Bruney, Places Journal
To remove benches, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it. When seating disappears, our relationship with public space becomes more grudging and utilitarian. Benches are symbols of hospitality, an invitation to participate in the civic realm.
'Occasional paper: Inconstant moon', Doug Muir, Crooked Timber
Now we have to take a step back and talk a little bit about the physics of moons.
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