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Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice
Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about…
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October 2023
Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning…
Oct 7
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August 2023
[subscribers only] Ask me Anything
And I thoroughly understand that the god is this way: To the wise, always a poser of riddles in divine speech, but to the foolish a teacher of l…
Aug 13
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July 2023
Reading Well
Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media…
Jul 17
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Everything I know about gardening
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have…
Jul 2
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June 2023
Agency and Schooling (and gardening)
Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar to some readers, the post is an elaboration of my…
Jun 7
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April 2023
Sympathies (influences pt. 1)
One of my goals in life is to become head waiter of a refined cafe (white apron, silver tray), with tables set in a quiet and shaded garden. The patrons…
Apr 24
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Designing a New Old Home: Light
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. — Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed…
Apr 12
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March 2023
A lot with a little
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool, King Lear Some works are better for their brevity. Fan…
Mar 10
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February 2023
Dispatches from childhood
Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way…
Feb 23
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January 2023
The Oak and the Reed
Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse nature — A simple sparrow for you is a heavy burden. The…
Jan 8
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December 2022
How to Cook for Odysseus
Health is not merely about one’s diet, but it feels like a natural place to start. What follows are a few beliefs of my own.
Dec 30, 2022
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