Moment by moment by moment, lived gracefully and honorably, makes a life.
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Perfect Days
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Overwrought NYT This, from Adam Liptak and Jodi Kantor, strikes me as unwarrantedly high-strung. Read the SCOTUS memos: they’re pretty standard legal back-and-forth based on reasonable arguments on both sides. Nor does the Times show how this led to the Supremes’ “Shadow Docket.”
Chill, kids.
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Bring Me My Whangee Jeeves,’ I said.
‘Sir?’ said Jeeves. He had been clearing away the breakfast things, but at the sound of the young master’s voice cheesed it courteously.
“You were absolutely right about the weather. It is a juicy morning.”
‘Decidedly, sir.’
‘Spring and all that.’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove.’
‘So I have been informed, sir.’
‘Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.
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Home, Again Victor Lee Austin, April 2, 2026:
The resurrection of Jesus is the way God chose to give the created world back to us. The resurrection remakes the world into what God always intended it to be. Thus, God’s resurrection gifts include families and churches and hearts of flesh. Resurrection is God bringing us to home.
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RIP, Tracy Kidder His books, especially House and Mountains Beyond Mountains (and to a lesser degree, The Soul of a New Machine) enthralled me.
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Big Sniff My first job downstairs is to open the back door and get a big breath of fresh air - rain or shine, winter or summer - I just copy the cats and dog, that’s what they do - that’s how the ‘read’ the day, nose up, what’s in the air? What smells different? Clear out the night-lungs. Start again. Meanwhile the kettle is boiling. I grind the beans. That smell of fresh ground beans. Oh wow! Then I am at the back door again, or in the yard, in my pyjamas and wellies, just with a little time to align myself with myself - and to align myself with this different, new day. It’s a little bit of Tao. –Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter (Substack) - “Spring Equinox”. Hat tip to Austin Kleon.
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