Parables of the Present
Started Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) 📚 this morning. Right away, I think: What do people think they will gain when society collapses? There̵...
Started Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) 📚 this morning. Right away, I think: What do people think they will gain when society collapses? There̵...
ZoĂ« Keating‘s cello loops and Imogen Heap‘s witchy gloves remind me that computers can also be playful extensions of human creativity, not just mach...
Perhaps my favorite element of working overnight with folks from India, now that we are all working from home, is the small audio intrusions from my co-workers’...
Many folks have mocked Mr. Trump for his frequent golf outings, on the one hand because he did the same to Mr. Obama, and on the other because they think he sho...
Someone I follow on Twitter shared Elizabeth Kingston’s discovery of sea chanty TikTok and I fell down an audio rabbit hole because TikTok has a handy fea...
When the pages in the calendar turn, I take some time to revisit the accumulations with which I clutter my days. It’s not you; it’s me. And time.
A hazy morning today, like yesterday, here in New York, on the eastern coast of North America. The smoke from the wildfires along the western coast of North Ame...
I turned off the air-conditioner and opened the windows letting in the air and sounds from outside. The day grew warmer and the house grew hotter, until at nigh...
Across the street from where No. 1 Daughter lives, two dogs sat in a closed car. They barked at her when she left for work. They barked at her when she came hom...
My youngest (12) asked, out of the blue, why do some people want a monarchy when they can’t be the king? I’m not sure. Maybe we should ask the British. I ...
Here is a sad and hopeful story of the church forests of Ethiopia. The land outside the church forest looks like desolation to me. So stark. Where’s the g...
The first was that I was very busy.The second — I was different from you: whatever happened to you could not happen to me, not like that.…. “Magdalene — T...
Tonight’s film was Romero (1989). Earlier this year my eldest and I were talking about a paper due for her international politics class on the Middle East, the ...
Over time I have lived on the lands of Lenape, Mohican, Wappinger, Manahoac, Piscataway, Powhatan, Monacan, Osage, Shawnee, Miami, Adena, Hopewell, and the Chic...
I have been joining in the morning and evening prayers from the garden of Canterbury Cathedral these past several months. Because this is the Internet, and we a...
My mother admonished me to think before I speak, and now sometimes I do. Sometimes I even think before I write, and take a breath, which was good advice I was g...
Every budget is a document of priorities filled with moral and ethical decisions. Every budget is the result of political wrangling over who and what matters. W...