by Shellee O'Brien | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter January 10, 2021 My Fellow Citizens, Listen, the United States has come unstuck in time. You might recognize this line from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, but it matches the landscape of my mind today. U.S....
by Shellee O'Brien | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter December 27, 2020 My Fellow Citizens, For 2020, the end-of-year lists are holding space for the things that didn’t happen. That approach seems inevitable, of course, with vacations postponed, weddings rescheduled, and holidays...
by Shellee O'Brien | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter December 13, 2020 My Fellow Citizens, The answer is equal parts art and democracy, but we have everything we need. The trending stories on social media continue to focus on broken norms and lost time, but there’s another...
by Shellee O'Brien | Discovery, Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter November 29, 2020 Welcome to Good Hues! This is our remedy for the doom scrolling that accompanied the following of election results and court challenges. With that political moment behind us (mostly), it’s time to turn our...
by Shellee O'Brien | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter November 15, 2020 My Fellow Citizens, “It feels like America is at a fault line. Like this is an end of an era,” a foreign journalist reflects on our recent election. If you have spent these last couple of weeks...
by Shellee O'Brien | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter October 18, 2020 My Fellow Citizens, There’s a new trend on social media. Get in line to vote and start the stopwatch on your phone. Once you’ve cast your ballot, post a screenshot so we all know how long you were...