Current listening: Arvo Pärt, Alina (30th Anniversary Edition). 🎶
Only and already 30 years old, it feels both ancient and immediate.
Current listening: Field’s Complete Nocturnes, beautifully performed by Alice Sara Ott.
I love listening to Chopin’s nocturnes in the evenings during bedtime reading; it’s delightful to go back to the OG. 🎶
It’s always a good day when Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, & Brian Blade release a blistering new single & announce a new album 🎶
Spend a few days camping with Sam at McCarthy Beach State Park near Chisolm. A beautiful spot, and perfect weather for mountain biking at nearby Redhead Mountain. 🏕️
Current listening: Aaron Parks / Little Big, Live in Berlin 🎶
Currently reading: All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart 📚
Finished reading: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi.
Some books feel like they’re written just for you. This one has some sections that I really needed to think through while reflecting on my life, the assumptions I tend to make about myself, & the way the world works in general.
Plus, I enjoyed learning about Alfred Adler, who was part of the same Vienna circle as Freud and his disciple Jung—but who reached very different conclusions about the human person & the role of psychology. 📚
Currently reading: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi 📚
Finished reading: The Son by Philipp Meyer.
This book is incredible—I see why some think it’s the novel of the century so far. It follows one remarkable Texas family for 150 years, telling the family’s story through the interwoven lives of, primarily, three of its members. 📚
Finished reading: Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner 📚
A clerihew for MacIntyre:
RIP, Alasdair MacIntyre, A Catholic who, with Marxist fire, Sought to heal the is/ought wound Inflicted by his fellow Scotsman, Hume.
Currently reading: Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner 📚
It’s the first day of summer break, & my kids just discovered Weird Al. So… it’s going to be a long summer 🫠
Finished reading: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis. Read this one, & Out of the Silent Planet, with my daughter. We’ve both loved both books, so it’s on to That Hideous Strength! 📚
Currently reading: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚
Currently reading: The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature & Ideas by Geoffrey Hill 📚
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