mumby road
  • Shadows and Knives
    Tiled kitchen backsplash with interesting indeterminate shadows and a magnetic knife rack on the right, with cleavers and knives, including a red-handled cleaver, which is the only strong color in a mostly black, white, and gray image📷
  • Carne
    "The way to battle abstraction in our time is to embrace the material, the incarnation of our lives, the fleshy, complicated, touchable realities right around us in our neighborhoods, churches, friends and families. And this enfleshed, incarnational part of ... life and work deserves some extra attention now, at least for a little while... " [Tish Harrison Warren, My Hope for American Discourse](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/opinion/saying-goodbye-social-media-prayer.html)

    (I am not oblivious to the fact that I'm sharing this advice via the very medium that's causing a lot of the need for this advice.)
  • Manly
    "As I get older, I find that I care more and more about being a good man and less and less about career stuff. I think a lot of it is just a product of age. But the fact that I’m the last survivor of the family I grew up in plays a significant part. When my mom passed away last October, the only guide for how I behaved was asking myself how my parents would want me to deal with it..." -- Jonah Goldberg, ["In Defense of Manly Tears," Aug 4, 2023](https://thedispatch.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=7fb8ceb3bd59c7956b1df66729296a4c.1661&nosocial=1) 💬
  • depends
    Pinkish-red brick wall with a vertical grout seam in white-cream beside the corner of a black table and green chair.
    "so much depends upon a green chair beside the brick wall ... "
    WCW kind of morning. 📷

  • 0.5 oz gin (Tanqueray)
    1.0 mezcal (Del Maguey Vida)
    0.5 dry vermouth (Dolin)
    0.5 (or less) Cocchi Americano

    I don’t know what to call it. And it’s a weird mix of 2 vermouths and 2 spirits. But… it’s really tasty!

  • Mini Goldendoodle dog asleep on a vibrant blue couch with a toy lamb it its mouth

    Archie’s binky. 🐶📷

  • Less is more; Not.
    Per my true love (via Robt. Venturi), "Less is a bore." Archie (and I) like it!

    bedroom with giant green leaves and pink flowers on the wall, a blue flowered bedspread, an orange small blanket, blue pillows, and mini goldendoodle dog sitting on the bed
    🐶 📷

  • June Wildflowers - San Juan Mountains, Colorado

    brown hand-thrown pottery vase placed on a window sill and filled with wildflowers: yellow flowers, blue lupine, and one blue wild iris
    📷

  • Concrete
    ... the presentation of our bodies is our spiritual act of worship. It is a significant Christian paradox. No worship is pleasing to God which is purely inward, abstract and mystical; it must express itself in concrete acts of service performed by our bodies. [John Stott
    Romans](https://www.ivpress.com/romans-jsbs) 💬
  • Felix culpa
    God can make good use of all that happens. But the loss is real. [C.S. Lewis
    Perelandra](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100924.Perelandra) 💬
  • Football can be fun. Who knew?
    Spurs v. Hammers: Lots of fun in the West Ham box (plus, great game by Fabianski); lots of terror in our own (esp. set pieces). But, to return to point 1: "lots of fun" has been in very short supply lately, and this was a nice change. ⚽
  • Rufus, John, and Peggy
    Enjoying Rufus Wainwright's Folkocracy -- especially, Peggy Seeger's "Heading for Home," sung by Rufus and John Legend 🎵
  • New gifts every morning
    sunrise on clouds, Dallas TX USA
  • Of blessed memory
    Cowboys entering a barbecue restaurant - Painting by Jon Flaming (Am. 1962-), Peggy Sue BBQ, Dallas, TX Jon Flaming (Am. 1962-), Peggy Sue BBQ, Dallas
  • Teachout on Stoppard

    Two-and-half years after his death, I miss reading new essays (and reviews and blog posts and tweets) by Terry Teachout. Here’s a good piece about Tom Stoppard, whom I also will miss profoundly, someday. (He said, perhaps naively).

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