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Rings in the New Age
It’s been some time since Amazon first announced their plans to adapt the stories by Tolkien that preceded the age of hobbits and the One Ring. This past Sunday, they finally released a teaser trailer for the September-premiering The Rings … Continue reading
A Tale of Time
I’m about 30 pages into Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties. Klosterman is one of my favorite non-fiction writers, especially when it comes to American pop culture. The book looks to be a 300-page dissection of what it was like to live … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Notes for a World's End, Teaching
Tagged Chuck Klosterman, Dave Eggers, Douglas Coupland
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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
Posted in The Long Story, Travel
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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
Posted in Faith, Friendship, Teaching
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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!
Posted in Television, Travel, Uncategorized
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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
