Year: 2021

90 RESULTS
From the Horse Library to the Centipawn

From the Horse Library to the Centipawn

In central Java, Ridwan Sururi and Luna are the Kudapustaka -- the Horse Library. *** I do miss Christopher Hitchens: It is all there to emphasize the one central and polar and critical point that Dickens wishes to enjoin on us all: whatever you do — hang on to your...

Fake! (also, Advent!)

Fake! (also, Advent!)

Surely you all have enough of me, but … micro.blog, where I keep my digital scrapbook – photos and quotes and links, rather than full blog posts – has introduced a new feature that allows you to get a weekly digest of posts. You may subscribe to it here. *** The above...

Adventing

We have entered Advent -- that first and most curious season of the Christian church’s year, which simultaneously awaits Christ’s Second Coming and looks back at centuries of patient or impatient waiting for the Incarnation. Essential reading: Auden’s long poem For...

Texas, London, Wisconsin

Texas, London, Wisconsin

Recently, I was able to spend a few days at my great place of refuge, and also the co-sponsor of this newsletter, Laity Lodge. What a blessing. A few more photos are here. *** Kermit Oliver is a prominent and highly-regarded painter – and designer of scarves for...

The Library

The Library

World’s most beautiful libraries *** Alix Hawley on Twitter: Library patron of the week: the fella who came in, wandered around for a good while, then asked pleasantly, “What is this place?” When I was in graduate school at the University of Virginia in the early...

Prophets and Churches and a Table of Welcome

Prophets and Churches and a Table of Welcome

Please check out all the cool new changes at the Comment website! Among them: The Welcome Table, a second Comment newsletter, this one hosted by Greg Thompson: “a monthly column devoted to exploring the practice of hospitality as it has surprised some of our society’s...