this was a good week!

including genx anthems, environmental prize winners & prehistoric dinosaur trees

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This week was a lovely adventure — I flew to Boston to speak at the Northeastern University School of Law, and met some incredible lawyers doing their damnedest to make the world a better place. (I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: law is a noble profession, and every civil right we hold dear was won for us, in part, by the work of lawyers. I’ll stand by this until the day I die.) And then afterwards, I got to spend time with my dear friend Mark, who I haven’t seen in an obnoxious amount of time. A lovely week.

And there’s even more evidence of a good week! Here’s what I found:

great substack reads:

• This is apparently the quintessential GenX anthem. I love the detail and logic that

  Jonathan Small
  underwent to come up with his answer. (Personally, I think his first runner-up is the actual quintessential GenX anthem, but I can’t deny he presents a good case!)

• Products of Real Life. Lyn Slater’s beautiful words establishing that she’s “more herself than she’s ever been” are just wonderful.

and then, there was this good news I found around the internet this week: