Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚
'What man needs is silence & warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.' ~Simone Weil
Reading
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Currently reading: A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor 📚
Currently reading: Aspects of Truth by Catherine Pickstock 📚
I think this year would be a good year to listen to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers straight through chronologically.
There’s a zillion albums, so I might not make it. But I can start. Tonight: Live at the Cafe Bohemia, volume 1. 🎶
Exodus 90: Mental prep ✝️
I have a very general, easy schedule of readings for the next 12 weeks. A few chapters each week—it won’t be a problem with all the new non-phone time you’ll have each day 🫠
Having done this twice before, I think the most helpful thing …
Currently reading: If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino.
Christmas: the perfect time to reread old favorites. 📚
Finished reading: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Another Penelope Fitzgerald book I love.📚
Currently reading: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 📚
Exodus 90: spiritual discipline between New Year's & Easter ✝️
Several times in the last five years, I’ve participated in Exodus 90, a 90-day program of spiritual disciplines and practices.
This year, Exodus 90 starts right on January 1, and goes through Holy Saturday (March 30). I’m especially …
Current listening: *The Incomparable Bola Sete 🎶
Sure, it’s just a live recording, but I’m here all day for this one. Heck, here all year. 🎶
Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
I’ve been working on an essay on Sam Bankman-Fried and Sam Altman for a couple weeks now. Today seemed like a good day to finish it.
Why are the traits they share—among others, naiveté, narcissism, love for humanity but only in the abstract, …
Finished reading: *The New Leviathans* by John Gray
Finished reading: The New Leviathans by John Gray.
A book with no single overarching thesis beyond an examination of how liberal democracy is in crisis in the West, and how the alternatives at the moment, primarily Russia and China, are… …
Current listening: a new Arvo Pärt album, Tractus, featuring a new, chamber-choir arrangement of Pärt’s setting of words from a sermon of John Henry Newman. 🎶
Rest in peace, Terence Davies. 🎞️
The first film I saw of his was his relatively recent documentary about Liverpool, Of Time & the City—a film of great beauty, full of profound reflection on memory & how profoundly the world has changed since …
Currently reading: Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill 📚
Currently reading: Toward the Winter Solstice by Timothy Steele 📚
