Thoughts from Jack • “You must change your life.”

Finished reading (2021): Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 📚

A fascinating and easily readable philosophical look into cultural vulnerability. It’s hard to imagine this book being irrelevant for anyone. Lear asks what it might mean to really listen and take seriously the experience of an end to a history for a people like the Crow—and for them to have hope nonetheless.

“It is one thing to dance as though nothing has happened; it is another to acknowledge that something singularly awful has happened—the collapse of happenings—and then decide to dance.”

Good weekend

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First view of Crater Lake (03Aug22)

Mt. Joy • Britt Festival, Jacksonville, OR

The Official…

<3 • Hobbit Beach—first time on the west coast

Finished reading (2021): Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman 📚

Not as deeply thoughtful as I had hoped. In fact, Lightman’s reflections are often quite simplistic. But, as someone who has also spent a good amount of time looking up at the stars in Maine, I sympathize with the sentiment of the book. Ultimately, I think he asks the exact right question in an early chapter: “Do I know too much, or too little?”