Edward commented on the latest blog that today’s ‘third place’ includes online social media. An astute observation.
For myself, this includes the Knowledge Network from BC. This week’s contribution was the Czech Philarmonic: Jakub Hrusa and Lisa Batiashvili.
There is something deeply satisfying in watching an orchestra play in concert; even, if only online. Why did I not learn to play an instrument when I was in high school?
From Sandra Barry, I received the link to This is My Music for July 30, 2022 — soprano Susie LeBlanc, with a tip of the cap to Elizabeth Bishop.
Through the mail, I received a copy of the Guardian Weekly, July 29 that included a long opinion piece by Hugh Brody, The Deepest Silence; an adaptation from his recent book Landscapes of Silence, from Childhood to the Arctic. The subject is abuse and suicide in Canada’s North.
From the Best of Boxwood concert (see Musique Royale), Heather returned with a couple of CDs.
Chris Norman and David Greenberg Duo, 2010, Let me in this Ae Night.
Catherine McEvoy, 2008, The Home Ruler.
Postscript
With retirement from work, online social media likely moves to ‘second place’.
Acknowledgements
Edward Wedler and Sandra Barry occupy my third place in Nova Scotia. Heather adds her music taste. The Guardian Weekly, North American edition brings home the UK.
References
The Guardian Weekly, 29 July 2022, Hugh Brody, The Deepest Silences: What Lies Behind the Arctic’s Indigenous Suicide Crisis. p.34-39.
Hugh Brody, 2022, Landscapes of Silence from Childhood to the Arctic, Faber and Faber.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Bob
I am going to disagree with Edward about social media being included in Oldenburg’s “third place” pantheon. Oldenburg was writing in response to the social isolation of American suburbia. His third places were physical (local, is his word) and and the interactions therein were mostly spontaneous and serendipitous. There’s lots of evidence that social media is isolationist and that it has an underlying structure that is manipulative. On this basis, I would argue that it produces the opposite of what Oldenburg was getting at.
Brian
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Thanks, Brian.
You make an excellent point.
We live in complex times.Bob
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