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Gas in the Tank
One of the questions you are asked when renting a car is whether or not you want to prepay for gas or if you’d rather fill it up right before you return it. Over the years, I’ve settled for the … Continue reading
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Self-Knowledge and Systems
Self-knowledge is almost meaningless if a system is indifferent and unresponsive. That’s one of my big take-aways from the last couple of years. Self-knowledge is a good thing. Not everything, mind you. But it’s something. Observation of what makes you … Continue reading
Posted in Notes for a World's End, The Long Story
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Halfway Through
About fifty days ago, I started a journey that I had thought about for some time but ever gotten around to: I started reading Dante’s Divine Comedy. I did it because one of my favorite newsletter-writers, Matthew Lee Anderson, promoted … Continue reading
Last Chance to Breathe?
For those keeping up, yesterday’s Covid test came back negative. So yesterday afternoon included a basketball game and time with the neighbors. But today? That’s the million-dollar, end-of-vacation question. This semester will be an ending of sorts, mostly by choice. … Continue reading
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Return to the Lake District
I’m almost a little ashamed at how excited I was to see this today: Between this and the new Around the World in 80 Days series that starts this Sunday, there’s a good bit of British television to enjoy!
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Itinerant Itinerary
My day started yesterday around 4 in the morning with an email from Delta that my flight out of Nashville had been cancelled and that they had already rebooked me: later flight out of Nashville and then connections in the … Continue reading
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Learning about Learning
Even when I’m on break, I think a good deal about the classroom. This break I’ve been reading Matthew Mullins’s Enjoying the Bible, which is a nice literary approach to the Bible that doesn’t land in some soft “Bible as … Continue reading
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Time’s Fullness
One of the best essays that I read this year was this one by Paul Kingsnorth. It stands well on its own, even as it also serves as a necessary coda to his most recent (and wonderfully written) book, Savage … Continue reading
“I Will Find a Way”
It’s almost Christmas, so it’s time to repost one of my favorite Christmas songs. It’s an odd one, more difficult than most Christmas songs. Gullahorn explains a bit of the song’s origin here. Whatever else it is, it is a … Continue reading
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A Reading for Today
One of the things I like most about using the Daily Office as my Scripture-reading guide is that it often ties things together thematically (especially during seasons like Advent and Christmas). Here’s today’s selection from Paul’s letter to Titus (some … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 