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Notes from Retreat
Reflections adapted from a week at Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira NY
Dec 12, 2024
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Travel Guide: Portugal
tips and recs for your next getaway
Sep 9, 2022
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When Paolo Met Flannery
What can the black sheep of Southern Gothic literature tell us about the irreverent Italian director?
Sep 19, 2021
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Aug 9, 2024
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Mar 4, 2023
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May 27, 2022
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I wandered and stood still.
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Pious Cunning Edition
The Anxious Psalmist; Thaulow, Halonen, Homer, Klimt, and Rubens; Yudkowsky's Demon; the Creed celebrates a big birthday; and more.
Dec 16, 2025
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The Prefect of Judaea
He lifts his hand, he speaks, he writes.
Nov 18, 2025
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Love in the Machine Edition
A field report from among the Doomers and the Optimists; dark flow and the language of love; coal miners and activist nuns; Dostoyevsky, Heaney, Weil…
Nov 15, 2025
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Canis Felixianus
A fond farewell to a friend.
Oct 27, 2025
Mountain Man Edition
Into, out of, and back into the wilderness; Krasznakorhai, language, obscurity, and Auden; Homer, Orozco, and Blumenschein; Greer, Kingsnorth, and…
Oct 23, 2025
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Reading Du Fu on a Spring Day
there will soon be lilies
Apr 1, 2025
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