Enjoying my glass tea mug.
Front Porch Republic does a Saturday roundup of articles that’s always worth checking out.
post: All flame.
I always enjoy Poorly Drawn Lines though I’m often not sure why.
reading: Matthew the Poor, Guidelines for Prayer.
reading: Neil Postman, Technopoly (for the first time!)
At long last, the HTM/SVS Psalter is in print. It’s beautiful and excellent. Review to follow soonish, when I’ve read through it.
(re)reading Tito Colliander, Way of the Ascetics. Short, very strong medicine.
A word of appreciation for Bonnie Kristian, whom I’ve been reading for years. She’s the only online Christian libertarian pacifist writer I know of, so for me she makes the internet feel a bit less lonely.
A conversation about the Olympic surfing event (there’s an Olympic surfing event?!) led me to remember this great piece of music from 1963. Spooky. Legend has it that the bass-forward sound was a mixing error. O felix culpa!
post: Rich Gifts.
Finished reading Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1. Very engaging, but in the end it felt gimmicky and pointlessly clever. Now reading Trollope, Barchester Towers, #2 of the Barsetshire novels.
Just went to the local Speedway to buy gas. There were CASH ONLY signs on all the pumps because of the internet crash. Happily there was a working ATM inside and I was able get some cash and pay. Even the attached Dunkin Donuts was CASH ONLY. We really have set up a system where much of the modern world can be shut down all at once.
@chrisaldrich Maybe you should add some mechanical cash registers to your collection.
Because of the big Machine Stops event, local Dept of Social Services announced that they can’t process “online paperwork” at this time, or for who knows how long. My first thought: If it were paperwork, this wouldn’t be happening. Naive, I know.
I just did a search for the book Outrage Machine on my library’s online catalog. The only result it returned was Adrienne Rich’s Collected Poems. Are they editorializing? :-)
Bonnie Kristian is excellent, partly on the “security dilemma,” usually applied to international politics, plaguing our nation. But even more so: “Political violence is off the table for Christians, full stop.” This will distinguish (say I) the Christians from the Christianists.
Grandpa & grandkids.
