An advantage of keeping a diary consists in the fact that one becomes aware with reassuring clarity of the transformations one incessantly undergoes…In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand thus moved as it does today…

French bakers in Suresnes, just west of Paris, made a 461-foot baguette on Sunday. The massive loaf successfully returned the title of world’s longest baguette to France, according to Guinness World Records, as it exceeded a 435-foot baguette made by (gasp) Italians in 2019.

via The New York Times

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Philosophors accompanies the quotation with a photograph.

From the weekly newsletter of Exploring Music. This week's theme is Let Me Tell You a Story.

Franz Schubert died asking for more of James Fenimore Cooper’s novels like The Last of the Mohicans.

At SiriusXM Martin Goldsmith dips into his memory archive (and mine) to remind us of what Phil Ochs said—

Ah, but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.

I didn't listen long enough to hear whether Mr Goldsmith also asked "when will they ever learn?"