📚 I feel like I enter a dream-state — a wonderful but nevertheless enigmatic one — whenever I read Fanny Howe:

Blessed is the person who shall find her own special function flowing from one remarkable notion, and who shares it. But even in this fortunate case the ego behind the ego is unable to identify the consciousness that had the sense to follow that notion through! Only the sharing is a comprehensible form of seeking the answer to this remarkable event.[…]

The world rolls around and around, and each day I take a walk with the weight of a man’s spirit which pines for worldly success, but crying out, I must help others!

Today seems like an appropriate day to revisit this memory from last May.

And only by doing this are you able to transform the jangling discords of society into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood and understanding.

Thank you for the information concerning prospective American publication.…

…But I could not promise anything for some time. Perhaps the matter does not allow of much delay? It might be advisable, rather than lose the American interest, to let the Americans do what seems good to them — as long as it was possible (I should like to add) to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing).

—J. R. R. Tolkien, letter to C. A. Furth, 13 May 1937

Real fresh, local eggs come with accessories. #donteatthegarnish

The pile grew 3x after this. Also, kudos to Sacred Profane for being a great space to chill with boy-o and dog-o

Callum Robinson and the Ethics of Elmland

If I were more heady and conversational on here, I would pin this line from Augustine to the top of this page in the form of a micro.blog catechism:

Q. 1. What is the chief end of online discourse?

A. That we may together scrutinize our souls and God, so that whoever discovers anything can help the others to it more readily.

Sunita Narain:

I’ve always been a critic of [EVs], because, for me, electrifying the cars of rich people is not the answer to climate change.

Imagine Simone Weil listening to Spotify. Can’t do it? Me either. 🤓