2020-07-02: Wonder and Bread Image Source Lately, I've been obsessed with the Lone Bellow's latest album, "Half Moon Light." …
2020-06-30: The Tree of Knowledge in The Soil of Being This morning, I watched a few minutes of a Robert Wood lecture on Martin Heidegger. The lecture was …
2020-06-29: A Lesson in The Geometry of The Cross with St Augustine [Of the Cross] Its breadth lies in the transverse beam on which the hands of the Crucified are …
2020-06-22: The Question, The Facts, and The Meaning To believe in God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in God …
2020-06-18: The Miracle of God's Love When we come to a point in our lives where we are completely ashamed of …
2020-06-17: Gentrification OR Gentle-fication This sort of project ought to be done for Dallas. a book about how Oakland has been shaped by great …
2020-06-15: Dana Gioia on what first drew him to W.H. Auden’s poetry: “Its music, its intelligence, …
2020-06-11: Lament vs Dispair "No Time for Despair" There's an interesting juxtaposition between Toni Morrison's "chaos …
2020-06-09: LitMap and mindmapping tools I love maps and visualization tools because I'm not a linear thinker. Here's one for literary …
2020-06-08: The Media Shaped Memory In his recent newsletter, Michael Sacasas re-articulated Marshall McCluhan's argument that new …
2020-06-05: Days By Philip Larkin What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time …
2020-06-04: Emmaus Road Headed West Some time ago, a small detail from the Road to Emmaus story in Luke's Gospel surprised me. It …
2020-06-03: Maintain The Cause of Righteousness I say that not only they who labor for the defense of the gospel but they who in any way maintain …
2020-06-01: The Visitation by Malcolm Guite Here is a meeting made of hidden joys Of lightenings cloistered in a narrow place …
2020-05-31: An Inkling and Collected Wisdom I love reading about the lives of the Inklings—the 20th century group of Oxford eccentrics. Some …
2020-05-29: A Sad State of Affairs Concerning social memory in particular, we may note that images of the past commonly legitimate a …
2020-05-28: Meditation via Mediation: Balthasar, prayer, and The Our Father This morning a listened to a podcast discussion on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar that sadly …
2020-05-27: One Database to Rule All The Sports OSDB Sports is a new startup that, as the the name suggests, acts as an IMDB for sports. An …
2020-05-24: Book Recommendation 📚 Challenge Sprint: 6 and 7 The Man Who Was Thursday —G.K. Chesterton The …
2020-05-24: How Humans Push and Pull The Internet Resulting in Flow and Stock “Push and Pull” are Chris Dixon’s simplifying patterns of the internet named for …
2020-05-22: Book Recommendation 📚 Challenge Sprint: Day 5 Keep Going —Austin Kleon
2020-05-22: The "Lost" Library of Paris Princeton and its Center for Digital Humanities has worked to “recreate the world of the Lost …
2020-05-21: The Spirit as... “The Thought Fox” I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive …
2020-05-21: Book Recommendation 📚 Challenge Sprint: Catchup Day 4 American Pastoral —Phillip Roth Till We …
2020-05-20: A Color Alphabet Bernadette Sheridan developed a synesthesia visualizer that colors words—specifically names —based …
2020-05-20: GoSLo I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs. —Frodo Baggins
2020-05-19: Web Books Since moving to micro.blog for my personal website, I’ve thought about web design and …
2020-05-19: Prayer as Raid and Surrender “Learning to Think” There is the inner life of thought which is our world of final …
2020-05-18: 4 Habits on Prayer from Hughes Oliphant Old From Chelpka In Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers, Hughes Oliphant Old describes the kind …
2020-05-16: Looking at The Man in The Mirror From the James Joyce story, “The Dead.” Gabriel stood stockstill for a moment in …
2020-05-16: The Woman in The Mirror A friend from church directed me to this Washington Post article about “Aging in place.” …
2020-05-15: An Update from Chronos Inc. “Here’s How Time Works Now” A Day You may remember that a day used to take place …
2020-05-14: Sound of Sunlight From Futility Closet: Alexander Graham Bell believed that his greatest achievement was the …
2020-05-14: Fifty Reasons to Roadtrip the USofA To borrow a Christian Wiman line: Whisky is the prayer.
2020-05-12: A whole world in a "little bitty" URL itty.bitty
2020-05-12: What's in a name? Their Lonely Betters by W.H. Auden As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises …