You know those paragraphs of SEO pablum on recipe sites these days? Annoying. But a garlic bread recipe flavored with leftist politics? I’ll take it.
A Fragment of the Creation Story
… And the Mother of All gave to another of her children the gift of storytelling. “With this gift, you will be able to remember me and your siblings to your own children. You and your children will dream whole new worlds. With the skills that come with your gift, some of your children’s dreams will become real and they will make things never before seen in this world. “But your gift comes with unique dangers.
I’ve created a linkroll page–a sort of directory to my favorite places online.
What is the point of poetry?
Bless the English teachers hearts, but the most boring question you can ask about a poem is “what does it mean?” It’s why people hate poetry. Such a question assumes a poem is a riddle. That, for some reason, this writer decided to eschew plain speech in favor of “sounding smart.” That, if the writer wanted to, they could have simply used other, clearer words to say exactly the same thing.
Ideology is too narrow
Jack Leahy: [All ideologies seek to] contain the uncontainable cosmos in rational, propositional thought in order to fix it. But the cosmos and the earth are not flawed systems that can be reduced to their atomic parts and then rebuilt perfectly to our own ever-changing and unstable desires. In our attempt, we must reduce the mind-boggling complexity and vastness of reality to a set of knowable propositions. Everything, therefore, will be reduced in order to be comprehended.
“The Deer’s Cry”, Arvo Pärt
I’ve decreased my Spotify usage this year—moving more toward Bandcamp, vinyl, and even CDs. That said, this top five sounds right for Spotify listening. If you were to include those other listening methods, Heilung might take the top spot.
Distraction is nothing other than a way to avoid, in the short term, the radical discomfort of the necessary spiritual growth beyond this predicament. Distraction is now a very normal way of negotiating life.
Good news: Tribes celebrate plan to remove dams on Klamath. “The Klamath salmon are coming home,” Yurok Chairman Joseph James said in a statement after the vote.
Floofy Pie
Rachel and I made Julia Child’s “Fluffy Pumpkin Pie”—which will forevermore be called Floofy Pie in our house. Rachel used Julia Child’s pie crust recipe and it was outstanding. We used fresh pumpkin instead of canned and this, I believe, was the source of the only problem we had: too much liquid. The pie did firm up but the bottom crust wasn’t as dry as we’d like. Cooked, not raw, but also not dry.