Eucalyptus (regnans?) • Kalōpā State Park

There are about 13 rainbows a day in Waimea

“Mere life is interesting enough. . . . I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful.” – GK Chesterton

Messalonskee Lake - 21April2018 - at the Maine Arts Academy

Finished reading (2021): Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context by Peter Hooton 📚

As expected, this did not disappoint. I don’t remember the last time a book on theology so thoroughly resonated with me. Though it remains limited in definition and shape, I have to think that there is an abundant, and growing, number of people, especially those in the current “deconstruction” movement, hungry for exactly what Bonhoeffer had in mind, to which Hooton has done diligent justice. I will definitely have more to say.

A friend joined me for coffee this morning, though I didn’t have an extra chair

Hawai’i or Ireland?

Mary Oliver:

This 2019 essay by Zadie Smith is the best thing I’ve read in a while. More of us need whatever it is she has.

“I am fascinated to presume, as a reader, that many types of people, strange to me in life, might be revealed, through the intimate space of fiction, to have griefs not unlike my own. And so I read.”

Last flight for a while, I hope