2023-03-21 Jay Owens More-than-human thinking isn’t just about recognising the near-to-human cleverness of …
2023-03-21 Green Man’s Grotto is showing signs of life! Phlox is blooming: Yarrow is back and is spreading …
2023-03-21 David Cain: “Most phone use is a tragic loss of life”
2023-03-21 I wear a black graphic t-shirt every day of my life. Last week I realized I could design my own and …
2023-03-20 Checking the PO box, saying hi to Joe Palooka.
2023-03-20 On music discovery: if you are fortunate enough to have a good, local record store like Landlocked, …
2023-03-20 Happy vernal equinox! Here’s hoping for a shift toward more spring-like weather. Rachel and I …
2023-03-16 I’ve been grinding through some numbers over the last few days so I’ve been half-watching the four …
2023-03-16 Alan Jacobs: The cultivation of taste, in morals as well as in art, is neither snobbish nor …
2023-03-15 The bookcase is finally completed and set in its corner of the dining room where I work. I’ve placed …
2023-03-15 Build things, not content.
2023-03-14 Woodworking notes 3/14/2023
2023-03-09 I’ve found myself dipping into this Red Pine translation of the Tao Te Ching this week. I …
2023-03-08 Amazing documentary about a would-be terrorist.
2023-03-05 JeffersCast Episode Three: “The Treasure”
2023-03-05 Newbie question here: any chance this is eastern red cedar? Definitely aromatic. Reddish brown. …
2023-03-05 Finished watching “The Woman King.” I don’t understand how Viola Davis was not nominated for an …
2023-03-04 Letters with @jsonbecker, week five
2023-03-03 Very wet here today. Poor squirrel at the feeder is soaked. Wind is whistling. It feels like …
2023-03-01 Thinking about this post from @patrickrhone tonight so I compared a cross section of end grain from …
2023-03-01 Following up on my previous post, it’s worth noting that he regards this as a counsel of …
2023-03-01 The heart of Jeffers’ Inhumanist philosophy is the turn away from the human, toward the nonhuman. A …
2023-02-28 “The Sun is Alive, and Why That Matters” by Charles Eisenstein. Interesting case for the aliveness …
2023-02-27 Letters with @jsonbecker, week four
2023-02-26 Progress picture on the bookshelf. I’m waiting to cut the joint for the bottom shelf until I get the …
2023-02-24 I’m just not built for the hour-long TV dramas; I’m more of a “rewatch favorite …
2023-02-23 Never has anyone complained about the neighbors so beautifully. (This is Jeffers, if you couldn’t …
2023-02-22 Snow trillium. First flower I’ve seen in the woods this year.
2023-02-19 JeffersCast Episode Two: “Hurt Hawks”
2023-02-18 Proof of concept for some shoe boxes I’m making for Rachel.
2023-02-18 Letters with @jsonbecker, week three
2023-02-17 Got my tickets for the Old Gods of Appalachia live show in Indianapolis!
2023-02-14 Woodworking notes 2/14/2023
2023-02-13 Rachel’s seedlings are doing great!
2023-02-10 Licensed driver!
2023-02-10 Poetry is a bodily art
2023-02-09 Letters with @jsonbecker, week two
2023-02-08 JeffersCast episode one: “Carmel Point”
2023-02-07 What have you done with one string lately?
2023-02-07 I’m curious. Do you have songs in your head never, rarely, often, always? Do you consider yourself …
2023-02-06 Woodworking notes 2/6/2023
2023-02-06 It’s letter writing day! I’ve just emailed my second letter for @jsonbecker’s Letters project. I …
2023-02-03 A fantastic essay from Paul Kingsnorth that captures so much of my own feeling. It even turns on a …
2023-02-02 It’s Candlemas!
2023-02-02 Now playing. It’s a good album, but I love the cover.
2023-01-31 Letters with @jsonbecker, week one
2023-01-31 Two paths ahead of us with regard to climate change
2023-01-31 I don’t recall what brought it back to mind but today I’m listening to Hem’s album …
2023-01-29 Bookshop.org has zero information about changing your password. How is this possible? I had to send …
2023-01-29 Dana O’Driscoll writes about “The Way of Wood”—about humanity’s interaction with wood, the loss of …
2023-01-27 The argument against conceptual clarity with regard to Ultimate Things: The Tao that can be told is …
2023-01-27 Sometimes I am so happy with the songs my brain brings up out of memory: “Rough Side of the …
2023-01-27 Celebrating this kid’s 17th birthday today!
2023-01-26 Excellent video of bobcats roaming the nature preserves stewarded by Sycamore Land Trust here in …
2023-01-24 My extraordinary wife Rachel has recorded a cover of “Oh Yeah by the Way”, a song from …
2023-01-24 Keep asking yourself: What sort of person do I want to be? You may fail to reach your goal. No one …
2023-01-23 When I saw that @ayjay was reading Matthew B. Crawford’s book Why We Drive, it inspired me to …
2023-01-22 The open future of the Tao
2023-01-21 I finished a wooden mallet today with some scrap leather on the ends. It’s very amateurish but I am …
2023-01-20 Okay I’m turning on this activity pub thingy that links to mastodon in some magical way I …
2023-01-19 Ted Gioia’s eight techniques for evaluating someone’s character. A solid list. Perhaps …
2023-01-18 Paul Kingsnorth on conscientious objection to the Machine
2023-01-17 Refusing Empire, telling a new story
2023-01-16 Three great apps I learned about from the micro.blog community that I now use every day: Ulysses, …
2023-01-16 Sam Kriss: Everyone now knows that the state is an instrument, a pointy stick which one group of …
2023-01-13 New motto: Anachronism forever!
2023-01-13 So Cory Doctorow’s new book is about an accountant?? I’m in. To be fair, it’s a book about a …
2023-01-10 I made very mediocre caramel cookies to celebrate Robinson Jeffers’ birthday. Get it? Because he …
2023-01-10 Happy 136th birthday to Robinson Jeffers, irascible inhumanist.
2023-01-09 I’ve added my mailing address to my bio so, you know, send me a letter or something!
2023-01-07 Stewart Huff killed it yet again at the Comedy Attic. Criminally underrated comedian.
2023-01-05 Now playing
2023-01-04 Excellent post by Caroline Ross on the value of small talk: As a form of simple hospitality, a few …
2023-01-04 Looks interesting: Sonorous Desert by Kim Haines-Eitzen 📚 This, of course, interests me because of …
2023-01-03 This looks good: Repair Revolution by John Wackman 📚 I do try to repair as much as I can. Sometimes …
2023-01-02 The song “Morning’s Here” from Friends is how I actually feel about mornings.
2022-12-31 Greg Moore riffing on the litany against fear in order to make a point about new year resolutions. I …
2022-12-30 We just started watching “Somebody Feed Phil” and the dude is like the Mr. Rogers of food and travel …
2022-12-29 I’ve been listening to Colter Wall’s “Western Swings & Waltzes and Other …
2022-12-29 The most important book I read this year: Wild Mind, Wild Earth
2022-12-27 The now-time of the hands
2022-12-23 Moving from human-centeredness to a land ethic
2022-12-21 Today’s solstice celebration food: Swedish meatball soup and pistachio drop cookies. Both highly …
2022-12-21 Happy winter solstice! I went into the woods yesterday intending to cut a larger Yule log from a …
2022-12-19 “Ten Theses on Intergenerational Stewardship” by Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm, a German aristocrat …
2022-12-17 French Lick trolley
2022-12-17 Lunch at the West Baden Springs Hotel
2022-12-17 Impractical utopians: a bit more on the smartphone conversation
2022-12-16 Finding a third way to address smartphone addiction
2022-12-14 Wendell Berry: from saving the planet to local care
2022-12-13 I’m making fire cider in an attempt to beat back all the sickness going around right now. …
2022-12-13 You know those paragraphs of SEO pablum on recipe sites these days? Annoying. But a garlic bread …
2022-12-13 A Fragment of the Creation Story
2022-12-12 I’ve created a linkroll page–a sort of directory to my favorite places online.
2022-12-08 What is the point of poetry?
2022-12-08 Ideology is too narrow
2022-12-06 “The Deer’s Cry”, Arvo Pärt
2022-12-01 I’ve decreased my Spotify usage this year—moving more toward Bandcamp, vinyl, and even CDs. That …
2022-11-28 Jack Leahy: Distraction is nothing other than a way to avoid, in the short term, the radical …
2022-11-26 Good news: Tribes celebrate plan to remove dams on Klamath. “The Klamath salmon are coming home,” …
2022-11-23 Floofy Pie
2022-11-23 Looking through this book again, which has been and remains influential on me (despite now falling …
2022-11-22 Preparing for winter
2022-11-22 Vermicomposting update
2022-11-21 Want to help regenerate your local ecosystem but circumstances limit what you can do at home? Look …
2022-11-20 Helpful video comparing both health benefits and environmental impacts of dairy and plant-based …
2022-11-18 The “free range fantasy”
2022-11-18 Cam Cole continues releasing blazing blues rock.
2022-11-17 Wendell Berry’s fateful decision
2022-11-16 The best hot chocolate
2022-11-15 My summer of not finishing books comes to an end
2022-11-15 In Limestone Country by Scott Russell Sanders
2022-11-12 A quiet, snowy afternoon listening to Ella
2022-11-09 So Amazon Drive is ending on 12/31/2023 and I discovered I have some mp3s hanging out over there …
2022-11-09 Frank Brown Cloud has posted an excellent essay on the role of belief in our economy—particularly …
2022-11-08 “Don’t obsess over politics”—click through to read a good quote posted by Patrick Rhone. It’s not …
2022-11-06 Walking through my neighborhood, seeing so many people living on small city lots using leaf blowers …
2022-11-06 Look at that butterfly. I asked him about Twitter and Elon and he just stirred his wings. I asked …
2022-11-06 Halloween 2022
2022-10-30 This year’s Jack-o’-lantern. Pictures by Darcy.
2022-10-29 My daughter Darcy has declared this Spooky Saturday. She says this involves Starbucks for breakfast, …
2022-10-28 Three songs so miserably sad it’s hard to listen to them more than once: Keith Whitley, “Don’t …
2022-10-27 I have no idea if the internet is already over, but this is a glorious essay. Via @joshua
2022-10-27 ”What Feminism Means to Me” by @Annie Mueller is excellent: I could do what I wanted, to a degree, …
2022-10-25 It looks like my Belgian tripel was somewhat successful. The ABV is low for the style but it tastes …
2022-10-25 Kill your lawn.
2022-10-25 Eight uses for fall leaves from the Old Farmer’s Almanac. We’re raking ours up, mowing …
2022-10-23 Another beautiful Fall day.
2022-10-23 Regenerative agriculture (like what you see in “Biggest Little Farm”) is animism in action.
2022-10-22 We finished the grape arbor. Now it just needs some paint and we’ll be ready to plant grapes next …
2022-10-22 Ok so I watched Biggest Little Farm and that was one of the most emotionally intense, beautiful, …
2022-10-22 It’s going to be a beautiful weekend here so one more big push to finish a few projects: finish the …
2022-10-21 What hath Jon Stewart wrought?
2022-10-20 Luxury surveillance
2022-10-19 Animism
2022-10-16 We’re having a beautiful Fall here in Indiana.
2022-10-14 Fall Break: Huber Orchard and bottling day
2022-10-13 A really excellent video on the complicated task of defining what we mean by the word “religion.” …
2022-10-11 Speaking of podcasts, I’ve finished season one of Old Gods of Appalachia and I absolutely love it.
2022-10-11 Theme music for Spooked podcast makes me happy every time.
2022-10-09 I’ve really been enjoying looking through blogroll.org, which (if I’m not mistaken) is the excellent …
2022-10-09 Why people change
2022-10-06 Some music from this evening: Townes Van Zandt sings “Pancho and Lefty” Iris DeMent sings “God …
2022-10-04 Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: “Bilbo used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a …
2022-10-03 “The first commercially-available CD (Billy Joel’s 52nd Street) was released forty years ago …
2022-10-01 Camping at Hardin Ridge again, this time at a site with no electricity. So beautiful and quiet. …
2022-09-27 Choose reality
2022-09-27 Wendell Berry, “Family Work”: Children, no matter how nurtured at home, must be risked to the …
2022-09-26 Hypocritical asceticism
2022-09-25 Monarch on (what we believe to be) Jerusalem artichoke.
2022-09-25 Expanding Green Man’s Grotto
2022-09-25 A damp but thoroughly enjoyable morning at Hardin Ridge.
2022-09-23 A personal calendar
2022-09-22 Happy Equinox! Happy Hobbit Day! The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. …
2022-09-21 Hobbit Day is tomorrow, September 22nd. Are you making your preparations?
2022-09-20 The death of the queen has some people pining for the Great Chain of Being. I’m also not a fan of …
2022-09-19 We’ve been hoping for a dragonfly or two to find out little wildlife pond. Well, tonight we have a …
2022-09-18 Finished reading The Hobbit. It’s been a few years since the last time I read it. Now moving on to …
2022-09-14 Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of tech billionaires about the future of …
2022-09-13 Interesting page on permacomputing, a.k.a., “radically sustainable computing.” Plenty of links. This …
2022-09-13 The loss of the night sky
2022-09-13 The problem is our solutions
2022-09-11 Saturday at the horror convention
2022-09-09 The British royal family owns a considerable chunk of British land. If you want to preserve that …
2022-09-04 Brewed a Belgian tripel from a kit today. Haven’t brewed beer in a few years so I had some …
2022-09-04 Alan Moore: I worship a second century human headed snake god called Glycon, who was exposed as a …
2022-09-03 I baked a Pennsylvania Dutch funeral pie. Definitely has a mincemeat vibe.
2022-09-03 Done!
2022-09-02 Unknown/Unknowable
2022-08-31 What do we hold sacred?
2022-08-30 Finished reading The Green Man by Kathleen Basford. Actually, there isn’t a lot of text—mostly great …
2022-08-30 Having a really good time reading Neil Gaiman again. Right now I’m making my way through his short …
2022-08-23 Alan Jacobs makes an excellent suggestion, which I plan to implement: You can also listen to music, …
2022-08-20 Hobbit Day is 33 days away
2022-08-19 How to be a good ancestor
2022-08-18 What if climate change doesn’t kill us?
2022-08-17 The end of the my audiobook era
2022-08-16 Daily Dracula has been such a fun way to read the novel. And now the action is building up as we …
2022-08-15 Ridiculously cute frog actually sitting on a lily pad in Green Man’s Grotto. Maybe he’s …
2022-08-15 Principles of Permaculture
2022-08-15 “The Reassurer” by Wendell Berry
2022-08-10 There is no such thing as the “environment”
2022-08-07 God is Ultimate Concern
2022-08-05 I love the YouTube channel “Living Big in a Tiny House”. Not only are the houses cool, the New …
2022-08-05 Happy 88th birthday, Wendell Berry!
2022-08-05 Remembering Christian CounterCulture
2022-08-04 Sanity Project is a page I’ve set up detailing our effort to turn our backyard into a healthy …
2022-08-03 Thanks to @crossingthethreshold for mentioning Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chödrön. …
2022-08-02 Backyard project updates: Rachel spotted what we think are dragonfly larvae in the pond. She also …
2022-07-29 This is a damn fine hour of stand-up by Stewart Huff, a really underappreciated comic. It’s at …
2022-07-27 Spicebush swallowtail on orange butterfly weed.
2022-07-27 An update on our worms. (Thanks for asking.) They’re doing well. We’re determining …
2022-07-27 So the frogs are clearly enjoying our pond. As I mentioned before, we found a generation of …
2022-07-26 Monarch butterflies have been put on the endangered list. Folks, plant that milkweed!
2022-07-24 Jug Rock and Hindostan Falls
2022-07-24 The Geode Grotto in Jasper, Indiana
2022-07-20 I got a great bit of mail from @aa recently! The color of the leather coaster is beautiful. Check …
2022-07-19 A few more plants have been added to the pond in Green Man’s Grotto. Tadpoles — both those we put in …
2022-07-17 Last night’s concert, the good and the bad
2022-07-16 Waiting for John Moreland
2022-07-16 Speaking of Green Lung, I’m too much of a boring middle-aged CPA dad sort of human to have what the …
2022-07-16 Now spinning — though with headphones since my wife and daughter don’t exactly like psychedelic, …
2022-07-12 If you build it, they will come.
2022-07-12 Think globally, act hyperlocally
2022-07-10 Chicken of the Woods. Spring Mill State Park.
2022-07-09 We built a pond!
2022-07-07 One of the perks of working remotely for the last couple of years: watching the Tour de France live. …
2022-07-01 Swamp milkweed
2022-06-28 This is worth watching (Netflix). Also good (if a bit less inspirational) is “Living Soil”. Watched: …
2022-06-28 Life within limits
2022-06-27 The next step we’ll be taking to increase relatedness here at our house: vermicomposting. We have a …
2022-06-25 Spotted at a local greenhouse: tiny iridescent frog nestled inside a tiger lily.
2022-06-22 Catching up: Vacation in California
2022-06-21 Inspiring, short documentary about Jadav Payeng, who has been planting a forest since 1979 to save …
2022-06-18 Bumblebee on purple coneflower 🌱
2022-06-08 Visiting Tor House and Hawk Tower, home of Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una, was an amazing …
2022-06-06 Nevertheless, I’ll be looking for you tomorrow, Jeffers.
2022-06-06 Day three. What can you say about these god-trees, the redwoods?
2022-06-05 Highlight of day two of our California vacation was the sea lions hanging out, watching the humans …
2022-06-04 California vacation day one: Travel hell.
2022-06-02 If all goes as planned, I am three days away from visiting Muir Woods, so I’m reading this in …
2022-06-01 Butterfly weed in Green Man’s Grotto is starting to bloom. Come on, butterflies!
2022-05-30 Ted Goia on fourteen signs that you are living in a society without a counterculture. This is true. …
2022-05-29 American Columbo is in bloom.
2022-05-29 I made some pawpaw muffins this morning using this recipe. I would have liked them to have a …
2022-05-25 Clive Thompson on the words he has never spelled correctly. Likewise. I’m a good speller but words …
2022-05-24 Trans-species collaboration
2022-05-23 In response to Jean, sharing my favorite picture of the Oregon coastline from our (best) vacation …
2022-05-22 Entwined being of plant and soil
2022-05-20 I’m a beekeeper now
2022-05-20 Hear me out: octopuses are aliens.
2022-05-18 Increasing relatedness on my city lot
2022-05-16 Waiting for An Evening with Neil Gaiman
2022-05-14 Bee friends (sweat bees?) pollinating our strawberries.
2022-05-14 Pleated inkcap mushroom popped up in the raised beds this morning. The raised beds sit on brick, not …
2022-05-10 Pretty excited to get confirmation of our tour of Tor House, the home of poet Robinson Jeffers, …
2022-05-05 Welcome to Green Man Grotto, a newly established native plant area in our backyard. The only thing …
2022-05-04 I believe the amount of anger in the world could be reduced if everyone had the freedom to take …
2022-05-03 Thanks to Austin Kleon for telling us there was a word for this: tsundoku. I work at my kitchen …
2022-05-02 Rachel and I took a quick walk in Murray Forest at lunch today. We saw a box turtle and both a …
2022-05-02 Harry Marks: And let’s not forget what everyone brings up when they talk about why “return to …
2022-05-01 It’s May 1st and you know what that means, don’t you? Time to watch The Wicker Man!
2022-04-30 It appears we have ourselves a holy fool skating along the boardwalk in San Diego: “Slomo: The man …
2022-04-27 Patrick Rhone: “The first approximation of others is ourselves.” Along these same lines, …
2022-04-27 Robin Sloan: The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you. Like a demon from a …
2022-04-26 HOMEBREW 2, the second mailing of what I’m grandiosely calling an analog media project, was dropped …
2022-04-25 I really enjoyed looking through this collection of random pairings of books from Robert van …
2022-04-25 From the weekend: the view from a lookout point at Brown County State Park
2022-04-24 Big news today: the butterfly milkweed is coming back up!
2022-04-23 I picked up The Zombies on picture disc for Record Store Day. Meanwhile, at home, a squirrel is …
2022-04-22 Happy Earth Day. Later today, Rachel and I plan to mulch some open areas in our backyard for more …
2022-04-21 Robin Wall Kimmerer: The mosses remember that this is not the first time the glaciers have melted. …
2022-04-19 Spring wildflowers
2022-04-19 Something made me think of Lodge 49 today and I want to take this opportunity to recommend that …
2022-04-17 Introductory note: This poem surely lies behind what I’ve written lately about …
2022-04-17 The Gnostic Road
2022-04-15 Plans for our family vacation this summer are starting to come together. I was initially trying to …
2022-04-15 Jon Batiste: What a wonderful world 🎶
2022-04-13 Trust the method
2022-04-10 O happy fault!
2022-04-09 New Jack White!
2022-04-09 “How do I live a meaningful life?”
2022-04-08 My favorite Tiny Desk Concert: Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles
2022-04-06 An essential question: Who does this benefit?
2022-04-06 Activism is an ideology
2022-04-05 Dark Green Religion
2022-04-04 Looky what I got today. I believe it’s a Royal Empress. Once the ribbon arrives I can start clacking …
2022-04-02 It’s as if people respond better to a welcoming - as opposed to punitive - environment: “New York …
2022-03-31 What counts as success in the climate change crisis?
2022-03-30 I've kept a very inconsistent journal since 2006, beginning with my first Father's Day. I wish I had …
2022-03-27 Wrapping up Spring Break
2022-03-24 Spring Break, thus far
2022-03-21 David Cain: One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have …
2022-03-18 Last night I was walking through Donaldson Woods, one of the few remaining stands of old-growth …
2022-03-17 From David Cain:
2022-03-16 If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to …
2022-03-15 David Cain: Self-imposed rules aren’t constraints, they’re good decisions made in batches. That is …
2022-03-14 After reading this post on canonical address books by @annahavron, it occurred to me that something …
2022-03-11 Oliver Burkeman on the reality distorting effects of the attention economy: As you surface from an …
2022-03-09 This is a great post that I needed to read today. “My point isn’t that we’re not living in a …
2022-03-09 When Rachel gave me a record player for Christmas, she included with it an album of Big Band …
2022-03-08 Started reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. 📚 Quoting Seneca, Charles Eisenstein, and …
2022-03-07 Alan Jacobs has recently posted about his news consumption habits in response to a worthwhile piece …
2022-03-06 That there is a fun ride.
2022-03-06 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:7) …
2022-03-05 🎵 “I had a thought about darkness; a thought’s just a passing train.” - John Moreland 🎵
2022-03-04 Craig Mod: Boredom is everything, man. I think our loss of boredom in contemporary society is one …
2022-02-28 “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” by Rainer Maria Rilke
2022-02-27 Stopped in at the Gus Grissom Memorial at Spring Mill State Park today. He was the second American …
2022-02-26 When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, he gave them a command and warning: do not eat …
2022-02-26 It’s Beer and Waffles Day! The first race of the season is one of my high holy days. 🚲
2022-02-23 So when I heard that Third Man Records had a 7” of “A Glorious Dawn” available, the only decision …
2022-02-22 Austin Kleon mentioned Betty Davis on the occasion of her death a few days ago - and what I want is …
2022-02-20 Yesterday a friend and I visited the Warren G. Harding Presidential Sites in Marion, OH - mainly …
2022-02-18 June 25-26, 2014, was a two-day window in which same-sex marriage was legal in Indiana. (More on the …
2022-02-18 Dan Olson’s video “Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs” is an excellent critique of crypto …
2022-02-17 The Black Belt was a region in the American South known for its rich, black soil. It was home to …
2022-02-16 Looking for writing app recommendations
2022-02-12 Once (2007) causes me such exquisite emotional pain that I have to put a few years between each …
2022-02-11 🎵 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “God Leads Us Along” 🎵
2022-02-10 I’m on a sixteen day streak with Day One. I’ve never been able to maintain a daily journaling habit …
2022-02-09 I’ve finished all of the films in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology and I can’t recommend them …
2022-02-09 This is an excellent video on how Amazon can afford to offer free shipping to Prime members. …
2022-02-06 I’ve now watched the first two films in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology and both have been …
2022-02-05 Now reading: “The dropout: a history” at Aeon. I’ve been in a sort of project of …
2022-02-05 Now spinning: D-Vine Spirituals. It’s a new release of recordings of Black gospel groups from the …
2022-02-04 I’ve been making notes about the influences on my life. I noticed a surface-level …
2022-02-04 Washington Post: “An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a …
2022-02-02 Austin Kleon recommends studying something you love in depth - and it just so happens that I’m …
2022-02-01 From The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, on the story of digital progress: Our world would be …
2022-01-30 Plans for the next issue involve cardboard and spray paint.
2022-01-30 This is a great presentation by Doug Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope, on the way people can …
2022-01-30 Fantastic documentary: Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
2022-01-29 I received my order from Half Letter Press, which focuses on booklets and independent publishing. …
2022-01-26 Robinson Jeffers, standing beside Tor House and Hawk Tower, his handmade stone outpost on the …
2022-01-25 The IRS will require you to use ID.me to access your taxes online. Last year, ID.me was locking …
2022-01-22 Chilly hike at Spring Mill State Park today
2022-01-22 Worth watching. I didn’t know anything about her previously. Colette
2022-01-21 Rob Sheffield says the CD revival is here. I’m going to stick with collecting records for now, …
2022-01-21 I’ve set up a page for a zine I recently completed. It’s a collection of some of my …
2022-01-15 In response to a recent post I wrote mentioning zines, @lewism pointed me to an episode of Rolf …
2022-01-14 🎵 Now spinning. I first heard Robert Finley on the Colbert show a few days ago and fell in love with …
2022-01-11 Austin Kleon’s latest (subscriber-only) newsletter issue is about the creative seasons. Two …
2022-01-11 A Russian farm has given its dairy cows virtual reality headsets in a bid to reduce their anxiety. …
2022-01-09 Sunday cooking: broccoli with garlic sauce, hot and sour soup, and vegetable spring rolls.
2022-01-08 Today I found a copy of Over the Rhine’s “let’s stay together” record. I’m thankful both that I …
2022-01-08 The Dig (streaming on Netflix) is a beautiful movie contemplating death and the past. Ralph Fiennes …
2022-01-07 “Amazon Prime is an economy distorting lie” by Matt Stoller. Really good explanation of …
2022-01-05 This article on the yin-yang role of gorse in the ecological concept of succession reminded me of …
2022-01-04 It’s a new year - and that means well-intentioned people making resolutions and other …
2022-01-04 Great article on the current legal fight over recognizing the legal personhood of Happy, an elephant …
2022-01-04 Austin Kleon: Cultivate a willingness to be bad
2022-01-03 Today’s record store purchases
2021-12-31 I love books and lists - and book lists most of all. This post by Mario Villalobos brought two books …
2021-12-30 Useful distinctions from Erich Fromm’s book On Disobedience
2021-12-30 📚 What I Read in 2021 📚
2021-12-30 From Erich Fromm, On Disobedience (nearly every line of this book so far is worth quoting): In …
2021-12-28 Fascinating piece by Nicholas Carr on GPT-3, an AI tool for generating text. It has been fed …
2021-12-28 When it comes to crypto assets, I lean skeptical but I hold that opinion loosely - since I …
2021-12-28 John Halstead has written an thoughtful post on prayer from a non-theistic perspective. (John …
2021-12-24 The HBO Max documentary “Beanie Mania” is worth watching. Beanie Babies seem to be one of those …
2021-12-23 In process: my first attempt at a zine, which will contain a few of my winter haiku. I was inspired …
2021-12-22 What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, …
2021-12-21 I noticed my feet this morning….
2021-12-20 One of the things I’m most grateful for this year is the opening of an independent bookstore nearby. …
2021-12-18 I was reminded this week of Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley’s bonkers Evelyn Evelyn project. Webley …
2021-12-17 This hot chocolate recipe is really good - if you use dark cocoa and cut the sugar in half. That …
2021-12-17 I’ve been reading a bit about surveillance capitalism (Privacy is Power and a couple hundred pages …
2021-12-17 Several days ago I watched Bright Star, Jane Campion’s film about the final period of John …
2021-12-13 Look into the trees, gentle your eyes, engage your ancient talent for spotting movement. Listen for …
2021-12-13 I’ve had my eye on this series at my local bookstore. They’re great books, obviously, …
2021-12-12 Went to see Over the Rhine - the best band in the world - at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater last night.
2021-12-12 For the last several months in response to all this, I’ve been reading about solitude and silence - …
2021-12-10 I love documentaries about extreme sports - probably because I am so unlike the people who do such …
2021-12-09 More from the Lilly Library: a 15th century missal and a Gutenberg Bible
2021-12-09 First illustrated edition of Canterbury Tales, 1484, at the Lilly Library
2021-12-09 Yellowwood Lake, September 2021