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@antonzuiker I go to the Discover page, search, “from78”, and that shows a profile I can open and follow

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@dwalbert I do miss the film camera days. And, wait a sec, that was you?!

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Very much looking forward to One in a Million when it airs on PBS Frontline.

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@ReaderJohn Congraulations 🥳

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@jabel I was a loyal 99er (barside) for years. Drank the same beer (no need to order), alternated between the same three dinners, tipped the same bar tenders every time. One of them even brought me leftovers from home a few times. Good memories

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Hölderlin! You get me every time!

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@JohnBrady @dwalbert Ha. I did consider cropping it down to at least exclude the telephone pole but thought better of it.

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Nora Bateson:

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The impulse is to imagine a utopia and then back up from that into some sort of organization of how do we get there. And the minute that that happens, that utopia is kind of like a thief because it robs us of all of the possible complex, emergent relational chaos that actually is filled with possibility.

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(NB: Goals like this — utopian or otherwise — should not be mistaken for those quintessential banners.)

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@canneddragons Wow. I just learned a lot about the tradwife thing. I was going to just sarcastically reply “Why can’t I get regular conservatives to read the Atlantic? 🤔” Then I went and read the first two. I have many bones to pick, but they were largely interesting pieces. They didn’t do quite what I expected, but they rely heavily on exactly what I expected. So that comment probably still stands.

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@jabel Zinger at the end there. I recently picked William T. Cavanagh’s The Uses of Idolatry back up and he is retracing this exact thing. Protestantism’s ironic “reduction”

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The Trump administration has brought back the entire 14th Amendment into our discourse.

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Interview with David W. Blight • The 14th Amendment as an answer — a Republican answer — to the Dred Scott decision and to the waves of immigration of the 1840s and 1850s.

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@markstoneman This does look like a fun one

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Several times in the last week I’ve been reminded of Kosuke Koyama and a book I’d like to get back to this summer.

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Nice conversation between Jonah Goldberg and Luke Burgis about his book The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion.

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Three things that stuck out toward the end:

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@jabel Forgot to say so but loved this. And reminded me of the subterranean rivers of London

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@ablerism Love this. My current good fortune involves the two-year-old walking out of his room sometime between 4:30 and 7:30 (he’s inconsistent) and waddling over in his sleep sack straight to the rocking chair to give a hug to me and his little brother. I could not possibly get tired of it.

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All of our biblical knowledge, doctrinal articulation, and apologetic prowess fail to resist the lure of cultural liturgies that so often bypass our intellects and shape our imaginations.

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Excellent short foreword by James KA Smith for the German translation and ten year memory of his book You Are What You Love.

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@ablerism Not sure what the errors are but they’ve had me go to the logs page and press “rebuild” to solve little issues before. @help

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@ablerism austinkleon.com/2017/11/0…

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@canneddragons Ha. Yeah, that could have been me as well…

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Deconstructed by frogs

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@canneddragons Love it. There was a horse barn built across the road when I was a kid. My cousin and I put a rubber frog in the top of the stem wall. I can’t believe it but I don’t think we ever named the little guy, but can still see his little head sticking out, looking southeast toward the brook.

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@writingslowly Ha! I hope @annahavron sees this

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@miljko Thanks for this. As someone who (thankfully only occasionally) has to splash through those “charts” of wordy Ishihara plates, whether it’s Epic or Cerner or Meditech, I see the slop. So much extra slop. Great post, and a good reminder: it doesn’t have to be this way.

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@apoorplayer ++

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Presented without comment:

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@jabel Wow, great essay! (And great visual reading on that site.) And, if I may be so bold as to say, it’s a perfect manifesto for you. I listened to it (love that option) on the way home tonight and it even includes an interaction with Siri not included in the written essay.

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@bbowman Haha. Love it

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Threshold

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@jabel !!! “The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goes, encounters only himself.” — Arendt

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Evermore true

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@isaacgreene Yeah. Fascinating to think about the gap between “preliterate/oral culture” and literate, and also the gap between literate and… whatever we are — the Nicholas Carr “someone has been tinkering with my brain and now I don’t read 2 gewd” culture.

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@jabel ++

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@dwalbert Good to know, thanks. I’ll check it out. Haven’t read any Harrington for a while, but that sounds better what I had been reading from her

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@canneddragons Yes! It’s wonderful

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@KyleEssary I am also glad I don’t live in Abilene anymore. Full stop. 🤓

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So, how would a preliterate person attain such deep biblical literacy in a way that a literate person today, even a person of faith, typically can’t?

I suspect the conventional answer would be something like, “they were more religious than we are.” Which isn’t wrong, per se, but also doesn’t identify a specific mechanism. Instead, let’s go back to the idea of names-as-mnemonic-devices and reframe the question this way: what if a preliterate person could remember Psalm 22, and in fact vast quantities of scripture, precisely because they couldn’t read? Because memorization, or being “off-book,” was the...

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I take back my fandom. 📚

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I quit reading A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, round about page 100. At first, I thought “Perhaps I’ll set it aside and come back another time.” But the more I think about it, the more I doubt it.

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At one point, in the most memorable line of those hundred pages, Fermor...

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Presented without comment:

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You mean why are there utensils in the book drawer?

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Jack-dog has had a longstanding, cartoonish obsession with cats. We once sat outdoors at a winery in Jacksonville, OR where a cat slept on the steps and, for the better part of two hours, Jack did not blink. The cat rested; Jack stared with unwavering attention.

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Well, he finally got his wish. But it was not...

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Ordinary unplanned utterances • “What is that? Is that a booger on your face? Come here. Give me that. Is that your booger or your brother’s booger?”

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(We’ll never know.)

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January ‘26 • When was the last time you smelled — you just had to smell, couldn’t resist smelling — some morning sunshine on a wall?

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Kitchen Chalk Talk • Fuller context here, plus a poem to the same effect.

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Go pray outside

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“This is what free costs”:

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You have been on this page for 60 seconds. You scrolled 73% of the way down. You never left this tab. We would have noticed if you had. Your finger moved 181 times. You tapped 7 times. You paused once for 34 seconds — longer than anywhere else. We were not counting. We were always counting.

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For a long time I rocked the same bumper sticker on whatever car I was driving — Yaris, Tacoma, Yaris again, Focus, Crosstrek. And I just noticed one on the back of the ol’ bike rack.

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And a little fitting that I’ve been reading Auden’s “O Where Are You Going?” lately. If you ever see this bumper around town,...

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