Beautiful mist on the lake this morning.

Big leaf pile, beautiful day

The wonderful Andrew O’Hagen on literature vs. “the dark babble of social media."

The London Review of Books has a new podcast up, on Auden. It’s excellent. Supplement with Alan Jacobs on “The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden”.

Current listening: two albums from London’s jazz scene: Nubya Garcia’s Nubya’s Five (check out her cover of “Contemplation”); Alfa Mist’s Antiphon.

If forced to pick the greatest song of all time, I might choose “I Want You Back”. That bass line…

Turns out things are pretty much the same, except wetter, and Siri works better.

Captain Abemerica. Saving the world, and stopping to smell all the flowers.

So glad to be present at a very full @AnselmHouseUMN for a talk by Dan Siedell on modern art.

Current listening: Tyshawn Sorey’s Verisimilitude, a beguiling fusion of jazz & classical (a fusion that’s incredibly fertile at the moment).