Wren Anderson

I had a collection of Japanese folk tales when I was a girl. One story I remember was about a man who found a magic listening cap. He could hear all the creatures speaking including the trees. He used the cap to listen and this allowed him to heal sick people because the trees and creatures around the sick person would explain the source of the illness. Mukashi mukashi ohanashi desu!

正直に言います。 神主家系に生まれ、神事の場で育った立場として、日本人が持つ感覚の鋭さは本物だと断言できます。なぜなら、 日本人は虫の声を「意味のある言葉」として左脳で処理できる、世界でも稀な民族とされています。西洋人の多くは虫の声を雑音として処理しますが、日本人は鳥や人の声と同じように言語として無意識に受け取っています。これ、生まれながらに自然界のエネルギーを言葉として受け取る回路が備わっているということです。 神道において自然界の声を聴く力は「神様の声を受け取る力」とされています。風の音、虫の声、水の流れ。それらすべてに神様のメッセージが宿るとされているのが神道の世界観です。日本人はその感覚を生まれながらに持っています。 「空気を読む」のも「気配を感じる」のも、弱さではありません。縁のエネルギーを感じ取る、世界が羨む最強のセンサーです。 あの人の気持ちが気になって仕方ない。縁が動く気がする。何かが変わりそうな感じがする。その感覚は正確です。あなたが感じているその直感を、信じてください。 固定投稿よりあなたに今1番必要な言葉を届けます。フォローでご縁を繋いでくださいね😌✨

@beatricegroves1 Beckoning

I have stepped into a fairy tale 🤍 Blossoming blackthorn holloways feel like pathways through the briars surrounding Sleeping Beauty🤍 I saw marsh harriers & adders and heard a bittern booming.

@ModernCeasar Biography of Karol Wotyla (John Paul II)

Biographies every man should read: - Hitler by Ullrich - Life of Sulla by Plutarch - Life of Caesar by Plutarch - Napoleon by Andrew Roberts - The Confessions of St. Augustine - Titan: The Life of John Rockefeller - Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson What else would you add?

@Gugly0Remedied Sigh. She didn’t speak to me for a week

@Litz17D OMG!😭 Ordered a LAMB?!?!😂 Knowing the history?!You're diabolical!🤣 We're vegetarians, so my vampire-like canines never had the pleasure to latch on to something fleshy! Lol😂

For 18 years we kept sheep. In 2015 we had a zillion lambs and this clip brought it all back. My youngish daughter was a sheep whisperer and one little orphaned lamb attached itself to her. That sheep died at age 10 this year after being attacked by wild pigs. My daughter grieved over her.

@Gugly0Remedied On a trip to Scotland I ordered lamb. My daughter was SO upset with me. This is the same daughter I have in mind for you. She’s 22 and so shy.

@Litz17D Got any ancestral links to Ellacotts? Jokes aside, we used to have a few cows and once, my aunt sold the calf & well ...... let's just say I gave them grief over it for months.

@theisabelb Read these 3 pages from a 6th grade text book issued in KY in the 1930s. The emphasis on governing one’s self and developing good habits and good judgment etc School used to be about developing people and uplifting society

@sakuyou_sf I’m and I love your bookshelf! I have several shelves but only taking a picture of this one.

こんにちは。海外の読書家の皆さん。日本語に翻訳されたSFを集めている本好きです。ここは海外SFの棚。奥から三列に並べていて、ここだけで600冊くらいあります。もし良ければあなたの本棚もみたいです！ ……と書いたら世界の本棚が見えるのか？

@xdNiBoR Seeing it in English

Nu dat X posts automatisch vertaald, kan ik gewoon in het Nederlands posten. Ik vraag me af of nederlandse posts evenveel reach hebben. Zien jullie dit in het Engels?

@CormStrikeFan A lady likes to ride side saddle

When I start on a Lethal White themed bathroom someone needs to stop me

@London_W4 Here in the States we have a Saturday night comedy show …the comedian was a NYC cabbie and oh lord he is funny. Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla

Just got home. Got a London black cab from Holborn to Little Venice with a driver called Steven. Really bloody good laugh the whole way. Proper Londoner who grew up on the Bantry House Estate opposite what is now Wetherspoons in Stepney. I told him I know someone who grew up there. Was a proper laugh like you used to get in a black cab. Really enjoyed that. Cheers 🥂

@London_W4 I have worn a Fitbit Charge5 or 6 for 3 years now and I love all the information it provides. What kind of smartwatch did you get? Apple Watch?

Good morning you little bundles of joy. Only seems like five minutes since we said goodnight. If you’re very lucky, I’ll share my sleep stats from my new smart watch with you all later. Something for you to look forward to. In the meantime, the sun is rising over the canal and another gorgeous day of fun and adventure in London awaits me. But first; mackerel and coffee.

You have read so widely; have you read any Georgette Heyer? She is a wonderful author and if you don’t know her please let me introduce you. I began reading her at age 14 and I own all 57 of her books. Took me years to collect them all as so many have been out of print for decades.

What I love about JA is how she wrote men! They aren't perfect but they have their own agency. They have a life of their own & it doesn't revolve around the woman. Modern literature literally rage-baits you into accepting some of the fked up standards of society rn. #JaneAusten

@MZHemingway @drawandstrike Mine is “good is an adjective; well is an adverb,” (good can be a noun also)

My toxic trait is correcting everyone with “objects are hung, people are hanged,” when I should just let it slide.

@Educated501 Welcome to 60! This lovely flower reminds me of the lovely film Cactus Flower with Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn. You would only have been about 5 when it was in the theater. But it’s a wonderful film about having romance and bloom even as you age.

Good morning! Happy new week. My cactus bloomed today for my birthday 🎂 I am 60 today.

Before TRG I would reread Troubled Blood. But since TRG I reread TRG. Of course I never can bear to read the Chapman Farm chapters. I read until she goes in and after she comes out but I can’t go through it again Okay, revise. I pick back up with her last day with Jacob, when she’s already out of the box. Shucks! Just thinking about the box is upsetting me now.

@badly_wired This book left me shaking every time I put it down.

April 6th On This Day In #Strike: 2016 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘖𝘎𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙. 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 Ch 20 Epigraph #TheRunningGrave The Strike & Ellacott Detective Agency convenes to discuss the security surrounding Chapman Farm and the means by which Robin will communicate with the outside world. ‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦,’ 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯. ‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭.’ 𝘈 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴’ 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬. ‘𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦?’ 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘺 ... ... 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰’ 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬,’ 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘺. ‘𝘈𝘯’ 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯’ 𝘺𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯’ 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘱𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘦.’" Ch 20 TRG The Ipcress in Len Deighton's novel refers to the "Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned Reflex under Stress". This brainwashing is akin to 'psychic driving', a technique trialled on mental hospital inmates in Canada, funded by the C.I.A during the 1950s. This took the form of a taped message on a loop played continuously to patients who'd been given drugs to paralyse them. The desired result was a 'change in behaviour' of the inmates. "𝘓𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘉𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶… 𝘓𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘉𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶…"

@badly_wired What women really want…of all your posts that’s the one that pops up into my head.

@GiannoCaldwell @jimmyfailla I was just looking at your reply…somehow I had forgotten you had Chicago roots. My late mother graduated from Austin High School. It’s a wonderful town and hope it can be restored to glory some day.

Thank you!!! I love doing @jimmyfailla’s show. You get a break from the serious news of the week and just have fun with it. Thank you for the congratulations on my engagement.

@BillAckman @X Right approach

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

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