“The tree is really rooted in the sky.” – Simone Weil

Finished Reading: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 📚

I need more fun novels like this in my life.

Oh Tetons, you big, beautiful rocks • Sighting on the road south to Salt Lake

New banner for the (s)newsletter. Planning to give Buttondown a try going forward

Keep the rain coming

Finished Reading (2023): The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 📚

Ten perfectly and wonderfully thoughtful reflections on “the surprise of poetry as well as its reliability… its given, unforeseeable thereness.”

"To redress poetry... is to know and celebrate it not only as a matter of proffered argument and edifying content, but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul. And this is why I have tried to profess the pleasure and surprise of poetry, its rightness and thereness, the way it is at one moment unforseeable and at the next indispensable, the way it arrives at something unhindered and self-directing, sweeping ahead into its full potential."

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Triple Tree Trail, overlooking Gallatin Valley

Mountains Walking Brewery • The tater tot nachos were placed before me, I blacked out, and now they are gone. 😋

Fun time last weekend with my parents visiting from Maine during their road-trip vacation. Touring Yellowstone, walking around Bozeman, hunting for bucket hats, eating all the good foods, and playing (very serious) games of Scrabble and cribbage