…the discomfort with temporal uncertainty that manifests as false certainty about the future has, I’ve come to realize, an equivalent in the unease about ambiguity, complexity, contradiction, and opacity that manifests as the urge to stuff reality into airtight categories. Categories are inevitable—language itself is a collection of categories—but their leakiness and limits should be…
(1,910) (2,002) The browser tab’s title on Madeleine’s 7-year-old laptop dutifully ticked up. Checking on my order from July 20th… Just wanted to find out if my order a month ago went through or if I should try again. It showed up on my PayPal. Madeleine’s muffins were made in a small commissary space well outside the purview of the health department. It had two main doors with keypad locks, and…
I meant to write something else and this is what came out. It is very weird to be writing about this again. 1 Title from The Homebound Symphony’s sprawling along the way: a polemic and an exhortation What characterizes the hopeful Christian, Thomas says, is the status viator – the state of being a wayfarer. Thus Josef Pieper refers to “the wayfaring character of hope.” Wayfarers know their…
Notes MRM. We’re in this liminal space between the date Margot Rose was born – July 23rd – and the date she died – August 13th. July 23rd we arrived at the lake . Carissa brought mini cupcakes and we had cupcakes and sang happy birthday on the dock at sunset. I said, “Are we going to sing?” Carissa said, “I don’t really want to,” but then led the singing. Grief is so multivariate, but it is almost…
I like my family. Even when I can’t participate in all the fun. I can play plenty of pool. 🎱
I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore The ideal person under capitalism is tireless, independent, resilient, endlessly capable of overriding their own limits in service of output. You may be severely injured and anemic but don’t you dare skip gym day. When you become chronically ill or disabled, you begin to understand how deeply this ideology has embedded itself into the psyche. The shame of…
Inspired by Robin Rendle’s post Sinistral Hands , I made my titles left-leaning italics. Since I use free fonts from CDNs, I did it with CSS transform: h1 { font-size : 2.1rem ; transform : skewX ( 12deg ); font-style : normal ; font-weight : 700 ; } I don’t know how many browsers this will work in. I switched the font while I was at it. I tried Geist for a minute but ended up choosing Bitter ,…
It started from a newsletter from the beautiful, kind Lowland Hum , who have done an episode of the new-to-me podcast Podsongs , an episode I still haven’t watched/listened to because I immediately noticed an episode with Peter Rollins, and I’m a big fan and still maybe two degrees of separation from based on my intense (pushy, IRL) research into the UK-and-adjacent alt-worship scene of the early…
😫 🤷 😡 😭 🫠 It has been 202 days since I broke my hip in a freak bike accident . 6 months, 2 weeks, 5 days. My last update on this series of unfortunate events was at 80 days on March 13th. That is because not much has changed. I gave up on the original orthopedic surgeon’s office, Texas Joint Institute, the one I had three or four appointments with over the course of the first few months of…
I haven’t finished many posts lately, but I have been deploying small style updates the last few weeks. I had updated the background of the header/menu a while ago with this vector leaf pattern, and changed the highlight colors from a green palette to a pink one. Then I changed it to cover the whole homepage. It was actually the pink in this image that inspired the color change. I’ve removed…