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“Love Your Farmers Market?

Angelus Silesius: Not first upon the Cross God let Himself be slain, For see!

I have no knowledge to evaluate the “ten percent” claim but this quote seems entirely plausible because we have done this before, most notably with nuclear arms: At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes.

Nothing makes me feel more out of place than the chit-chat of CPAs at professional education events.

Well, Dad, I tuned up our truck today.

It is heartening to see all the people writing remembrances of Wendell Berry and posting quotes from his work.

It’s good to hear, from the people who knew him best, that your hero was a truly good man.

Tolkien, The Fall of Numenor: [Sauron] did not object to the existence of the world, so long as he could do what he liked with it.

We’re in a heat wave right when the Abel house wants to start feeling spooky, so I’m thinking about seasons again.

Me, four years ago: “Unknown/Unknowable”

Well what can I say?

Henry Corbin: It goes without saying that the form in which each of us receives the master’s thought conforms to his “inner heaven”; that is the very principle of the theophanism of Ibn ‘Arabi, who for that reason can only guide each man individually to w…

A wonderful story from Alone with the Alone.

Dolly and family singing “In the Pines.”

Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: At this point we must recapitulate the distinction, fundamental for us, between allegory and symbol; allegory is a rational operation, implying no transition either to a new plane of being or to a new depth of conscious…

Chocolate gravy was a success!

Finished reading Ann the Word by Richard Francis.

It’s been a really good year for goldfinches here.

I think that about sums it up.

Sometimes I follow a link over to Mastodon and see the insane way people talk on social media, or I read an article about cash drops and other trends, and I thank all the powers that I am blessedly out of touch.

I still really like this post from three years ago, in which I did some investigating/speculating into the impact “new” highway 37 had on our town.

I’ve been having fun researching a Civil War letter written by my great-great-great grandfather on my dad’s side.

One of my epiphanies when I left Big Tech social media in 2020 was how the timeline had come to dominate my mind.

To repurpose a familiar line: be not conformed to technology, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Rachel and I were talking about near death experiences (NDEs) some time ago when we came to the question: should these accounts be understood as what will actually happen after death?