I don’t recall what brought it back to mind but today I’m listening to Hem’s album “Eveningland”. I haven’t listened to this one in years. Lovely.

Bookshop.org has zero information about changing your password. How is this possible? I had to send a support request about this most basic of account functions!

Dana O’Driscoll writes about “The Way of Wood”—about humanity’s interaction with wood, the loss of that interaction, and ways to find our way back to it.

The argument against conceptual clarity with regard to Ultimate Things:

The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao;

Names that can be named are not true names.

Sometimes I am so happy with the songs my brain brings up out of memory: “Rough Side of the Mountain” by FC and Janice Barnes.

Celebrating this kid’s 17th birthday today!

Excellent video of bobcats roaming the nature preserves stewarded by Sycamore Land Trust here in southern Indiana. (Sycamore is a great organization. Their properties are gems.)

My extraordinary wife Rachel has recorded a cover of “Oh Yeah by the Way”, a song from our favorite band Over the Rhine. It’s a very sad song to which she has attached some happy family pictures. 😂 She also has other covers there. And a few Battlefront videos.

Keep asking yourself: What sort of person do I want to be? You may fail to reach your goal. No one may ever notice your efforts. What you must not do, however, is allow others to steer your life, thoughts, decisions in directions that are in their—not your—interests.

When I saw that @ayjay was reading Matthew B. Crawford’s book Why We Drive, it inspired me to revisit Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft, particularly since I’ve started woodworking this year. I read the original article when it came out in 2006 (seventeen years ago!) and was thrilled by it and the book that followed. Rather than completing the re-read, though, I’m moving on to The Word Beyond Your Head, which may be more relevant to what I’ve been thinking about lately.