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Convalescence
I wandered and stood still.
Jan 16
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December 2025
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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November 2025
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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October 2025
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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April 2025
Reading Du Fu on a Spring Day
there will soon be lilies
Apr 1, 2025
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February 2025
Aloe Vera
A sort of love story.
Feb 15, 2025
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January 2025
Vision Board Edition
Berkeley and prayer, surrealism and dreams, Kandinsky and abstraction, the unlikely craftsmanship of a reborn Notre-Dame, and more.
Jan 4, 2025
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December 2024
Notes from Retreat
Reflections adapted from a week at Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira NY
Dec 12, 2024
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Incantation of Reason Edition
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Remembering Frank Auerbach, remembering the Florence of 1504, evaluating the UFO religion, and more.
Dec 2, 2024
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October 2024
Thrill of Sunlight Edition
Hopper and the mysteries of Nature. Donna Tartt on art and artifice, Daniel Mitsui on traditionalism, A.E. Stallings on the unexpected word, and more.
Oct 7, 2024
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