From the latest essay by Rhyd Wildermuth: Again, worlding is what we do and is not dependent on what we believe. This make the question not “what is true?” but rather “what do we include?” We already live in a world full of gods and spirits, but for the disenchanted mind, these are so distant in the background and so excluded from our consciousness that we can say “they don’t exist” without any feeling of falsehood.
It’s Hobbit Day, as all civilized Shirelings know. Specifically, it’s Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, as well as the autumnal equinox. I recommend shepherd’s pie and persimmon pudding, which is how we celebrated yesterday. (Leftovers today!) This morning I’m listening to the Weird Studies episode about Conan the Barbarian, mostly in preparation for an upcoming post. Of all the wonderful Weird Studies episodes, by the way, that is one of my favorites, both because it was a fun topic and because it bring back memories of one of my road trips, travelling between Corydon and Leavenworth.
Beautiful video: “Suzanne Lupien, a solo 70-year-old homesteader, uses draft horses, compost, and traditional tools to grow food for 20 families.”
I’m making persimmon pudding for an equinox meal today. There may be misappropriation of pulp going on here.
This looks like the churches I grew up in, with two differences:
Otherwise, totally us.
It’s especially important to remember that people love hating their enemies — they love that more than anything. So the worst thing you could do to them, as far as they’re concerned, is to diminish their hatreds. To those of us who don’t happen to share those hatreds, their behavior might look like wearying, pointless repetition. But from the inside, those hatreds are the primary instrument of myth confirmation. They give security, and people want security.
Jesse Welles has a new song about the death of Charlie Kirk 🎵
Another sign of the shift out of summer: we can hear the scrap yard a mile from here in the morning. Turns out, sound travels farther in cold temperatures.
Listening to the first episode of the Newkirks’ series on mediumship. Turns out there is an active Spiritualist camp in Indiana with a very colorful history. I know the destination of my next road trip!
One of the things I’ve learned since taking this new job is that the feeling of vague dread every time I think of work is not, in fact, necessary.