Out of Focus
Description: Everything is contextual. Context is everything.
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[ Special note: By " this morning " in the next paragraph, I obviously mean, "last week," i.e., when I began writing this post; as opposed to when I continued rewriting and editing it; as opposed to when I finally clicked "Publish"! Onward …]
Walking home this morning (now known as "a week ago, 10/12/22"), after dropping off my kids at school, I felt my phone vibrate: It was an alert announcing the list 2022 MacArthur Fellows , colloquially and informally known as "genius grant" recipients. That notification provided the catalyst for me to finish this post. [ Ed note : Which …. didn't exactly happen, eh? OK … enough with the interruptions.]
So at this point, "catalyst" might overstate things. More importantly, I don't mean to imply that any of what follows breaks new ground, nor do I foresee myself receiving a surprise call with news of my own MacArthur Fellowship. Rather, it made me think of a (not-so-clever) joke I had included in the first draft of my birthday post , before I removed it in order to include it within its first spin-off essay. But it didn't survive that either.
Out of Focus