I’m (finally!) getting a little better at noticing the mundane causes of my mood. Today I feel extremely bitter and uncaring. Eventually, I realized that I also feel very tired, and then remembered that I went to sleep later than usual, and in a bad mood. A midday nap will fix a good deal of this.
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A border collie running an agility course is a being happier than which none can be conceived.
Prayer before a fire (stealing lines from both Gandalf and Gordon White):
I am a servant of the secret fire,
The fire of creation.
All fires are the one fire,
And blessed be its flame.
I finally read that Kingsnorth essay “Against Christian Civilization” and, yeah, it’s a banger.
Rebecca Solnit very effectively satirizes a prominent model of online activism.
Wisdom from Gabor Maté on healthy anger, and how to process unhealthy rage.
“Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison.” General Ludd, we need you now more than ever.
It feels sometimes that critics of euthanasia laws–see the closing paragraphs here–expect everyone to die like Christ on the cross. Why should we force people to endure a death that can only be endured gracefully by saints and martyrs, but which is slow torture to regular mortals?
I’ve been enjoying the Axe and Anvil blacksmithing YouTube channel, though he doesn’t seem to be active there anymore. I found out about him because he’s teaching an upcoming Mortise and Tenon course.
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Apparently, give too much attention to one of the people least deserving of such attention.
Does anyone else feel like they–along with most Americans–are subject to some strange bewitchment? Is it some kind of New Thought glamor magic that compels so many of us to obsess over him? Is it some kind of magnetism generated by an uninhibited narcissism?
What if we just didn’t? What if we just stopped clicking on news stories about him and trust that if something is important enough, it will find its way to our attention? What if we just nope out of voluntarily surrendering to a man so deeply desirous of having all eyes on him?