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Me and Ess

Me and Ess

Bean Sprouts

Bean Sprouts

Sprouts and Dr. Toonie

Sprouts and Dr. Toonie

Mykala has been growing amazing broccoli and bean sprouts. Ess LOVES them and eats them like she’s a little rabbit. Notice how Ess is holding Doctor Toonie’s wing.

Wishing Robin a Happy 50th Birthday

Wishing Robin a Happy 50th Birthday

Chair on a Couch

Chair on a Couch

Mykala saw Ess’s head poking up above the back of the couch and immediately ran in to investigate.

Birthday Food

Birthday Food

Eating salted caramel coconut ice cream for Mykala’s birthday.

Picture of Mama

Picture of Mama

This one requires a little explanation. Mykala was out and I was home with Ess, and she needed a bath. But Ess insisted that this picture of Mama (made for a musical Mykala choreographed; we don’t just laminate pictures of ourselves around here) follow her around for her bath. So, the picture watched over Ess while she was in the tub, and came along while she got dried off and warmed up.

Horse by the Dishwasher

Ess and Marge

Ess and Marge

tweet - 3 March, 2017

The Future of Not Working is about a few things, among them the test of universal basic income as viable social policy. It touches on the continuing and seismic shift in labor from humans to machine automation. But what it really helped me understand was how to help those in poverty:

One estimate, generated by Laurence Chandy and Brina Seidel of the Brookings Institution, recently calculated that the global poverty gap — meaning how much it would take to get everyone above the poverty line — was just $66 billion. That is roughly what Americans spend on lottery tickets every year, and it is about half of what the world spends on foreign aid.

People at the bottommost rungs of the socioeconomic ladder know exactly, like surgically-precisely what they need and the best way to get that to them is simple: cash.

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