he read religiously

hed encourage everyone to put their technologies aside for hours at a time every day and read

as a boy growing up in a household of eleven money was parsed by necessities

                                                                                     they did not vacation

if he wanted to go anywhere in the world or other worlds he read

if asked to identify himself he paired his name saying also he was a voracious reader

“The American Psychological Association warned in 2021 that over half of U.S. adults (around 53%) were struggling to focus for extended periods due to stress, burnout, or constant digital distractions.”

https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/why-nobody-can-read-anymore-1bb6a8331831

“54% of adult Americans [16 to 73] can’t read at a Sixth Grade level [went up one grade since he checked last year – although that percentage was 53%].”

https://www.barbarabush.org/why-literacy/

 

    correlation?

a friend irritates him

calls things a coincidence

he counters with serendipity

    coincidence is defined by Cambridge Dictionary “an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising.”

    serendipity “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.”  preferred it to Cambridges “the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance.” though liked that too

                     

 

a distinct correlation

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