Simple things

Mornings are the best

Pioneer Falls

Finished Reading: Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person by Gilbert Meilaender 📚

Thoughtfulness is an understatement when it comes to Meilaender. In each of his books, I always appreciate his nonrelativist, both-and approach.

Thinking seriously about human dignity should compel us to ask whether freedom and consent are really all we ought to care about—to ask whether being human means nothing more than the freedom to shape and reshape ourselves, or whether it also means honoring the embodied character of our life and affirming some of its limits.

This is how much Jack enjoys TV

Finished Reading: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 📚

Third time in this book, and I love it equally each time — its meditative depths of simplicity, or some such paradox.

Nan Shepherd said that “simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.” I can think of no better description at the heart of this book, and of Robinson’s writing in general.

I love biking to and from work every day. Every time, it reminds me of my home state slogan, “The Way Life Should Be.”

One of my favorite things about weekends/days off is the tempo: the no-rush sips of coffee over a book, the slow morning pace to breakfast and the front door.

This is not Jack’s favorite thing.

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