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Probably pecans. Walnuts are a close second. Acorns are fun to play with but weird to eat… though they are an indigenous staple in my area of the PNW.
September 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Probably pecans. Walnuts are a close second. Acorns are fun to play with but weird to eat… though they are an indigenous staple in my area of the PNW.
In other words, Christians must embrace some vision of apokatastasis, or universal restoration, or else warrant their own extinction through Trumpist soul rot.
August 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In other words, Christians must embrace some vision of apokatastasis, or universal restoration, or else warrant their own extinction through Trumpist soul rot.
Lol is that the exhaust hood for the stove upstairs beside the bed?
August 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Lol is that the exhaust hood for the stove upstairs beside the bed?
Your Young Idealist video on Hölderlin is excellent. One of my favorites. I have the audio saved for relistening!
July 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Your Young Idealist video on Hölderlin is excellent. One of my favorites. I have the audio saved for relistening!
Clara bears annual rereading, usually in the autumn.
July 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Clara bears annual rereading, usually in the autumn.
You get a remote job in tech, of course.
July 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You get a remote job in tech, of course.
Amazing image — do you know the artist?
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Amazing image — do you know the artist?
1, if I had to choose.
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1, if I had to choose.
The postliberal panic about voluntarism never seemed so disingenuous as it does now.
February 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The postliberal panic about voluntarism never seemed so disingenuous as it does now.
Haha point taken… I used to teach high school and wouldn’t have subjected those students to it, but if you want to hear thirty fourth graders hoot and holler read them Macavity! Also Murder in the Cathedral would’ve made a gnarly musical.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Haha point taken… I used to teach high school and wouldn’t have subjected those students to it, but if you want to hear thirty fourth graders hoot and holler read them Macavity! Also Murder in the Cathedral would’ve made a gnarly musical.
Au contraire! I teach elementary school — the poems are spectacular to read and recite with children.
February 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Au contraire! I teach elementary school — the poems are spectacular to read and recite with children.
True! I was being mostly tongue-in-cheek of course.
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
True! I was being mostly tongue-in-cheek of course.
Nero setting Rome on fire might be the closest analogy one can find.
February 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Nero setting Rome on fire might be the closest analogy one can find.
A genealogy of Trumpism via postliberal theology and reactionary conservatism — IOW, how we got from the Tractarians to Trump.
February 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A genealogy of Trumpism via postliberal theology and reactionary conservatism — IOW, how we got from the Tractarians to Trump.
I think this is right. There is gratuity but also a certain lawfulness in any act of creation. The analogy to theology and God as Creator would seek to be apt for those of us who object to a concept of God as pure will (or just whim, which is all an untethered will can ever be).
January 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I think this is right. There is gratuity but also a certain lawfulness in any act of creation. The analogy to theology and God as Creator would seek to be apt for those of us who object to a concept of God as pure will (or just whim, which is all an untethered will can ever be).
I read something years ago comparing DBH to GKC as a stylistic provocateur, among other things. It’s not an unmerited comparison, though I’d say DBH is fists where GK is knives.
January 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I read something years ago comparing DBH to GKC as a stylistic provocateur, among other things. It’s not an unmerited comparison, though I’d say DBH is fists where GK is knives.
Obviously not a name to throw around in mixed company! But anyway his philosophical lectures and essays interpreting Goethe are fascinating.
December 10, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Obviously not a name to throw around in mixed company! But anyway his philosophical lectures and essays interpreting Goethe are fascinating.
Often have I wondered this as well. After spending a while away, I feel the role of social media for me over the years has been fluid and never purely healthy or unhealthy. My engagement ebbs and flows like the rest of life’s goings on.
December 1, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Often have I wondered this as well. After spending a while away, I feel the role of social media for me over the years has been fluid and never purely healthy or unhealthy. My engagement ebbs and flows like the rest of life’s goings on.
What’s your favorite work by Cusanus?
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 AM
What’s your favorite work by Cusanus?