Douglad Hine:
In its attention to whatever is missing or taken for granted, art can lead us upstream.
“The power of art to reveal the dominant consciousness and challenge it.” — This subtitle done gimme goosbumps.
One of Dougald Hine’s more hilariously good lines is when he admits not having any idea how to respond to someone who I can only describe as having outrun the use of meaningful conversation: “I couldn’t even find the energy to reply with a link to a talk that might give him a clue where I was coming from.”
I could take that in a few different ways for a fair amount of time. But for now, I’m thinking of Thomas Merton:
Light Phone asks, “How much is you time worth?”. Refreshing. Excited for January
Headline o’ the Day
I confess I have never gotten around to reading Jedediah Jenkins’s books. But Meghan has loved them, and she sent me this screenshot about his new book, which I believe should be shared.
(I also confess to being jealous. I too would like to be shut up in a cabin. Not because of the election, but just because I like being shut up in cabins.)
Eli Lake’s short dive into Democratic Party history is a decent start on the kind of thing I meant with the Noonan post.
And so, from the point of view of Adams, our republic is both upside down and out of balance: We are using the brake for an accelerator and the accelerator for a brake. And such a brake as Congress can provide is not a thoughtful or deliberate one but only friction and confused inaction—less a brake than sand in the gears or a monkey wrench in the works. […]
The people, of course, are still the people, and still the same mob they’ve always been.
Currently Reading: At Work in the Ruins by Dougald Hine 📚
People are going to have to stop setting the bar so high with these killer introductions.
Watch out for leaf weasels
