Sight.
Mechtilde of Hackeborn (died 1299) heard these words from the Lord: “I tell you the truth that I am very pleased when men trustingly expect great things from me. For everyone who believes that I will...
View ArticleProclaiming.
What [Adorno and Horkheimer] championed was neither high art or low culture, but art that exposed the contradictions of capitalist society rather than smoothing them over — in short, modernist art. —...
View ArticlePossessed.
Think how much any individual mind, any brain, is enlarged by what we can know through books and through literature — places, people, ideas that we would never otherwise experience, things much larger...
View ArticleBooks I’ve Read in 2018
I’ve begun the habit of listing each book I read in posts by year. I like the sense of accomplishment from uploading and watching each thumbnail appear, and I like skimming over and remembering what...
View ArticlePrimers on Israel-Palestine
Well, first off, I don’t know why pasta alla boscaiola isn’t all over all the food blogs. I made it for the first time this winter, and couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of it earlier. The olive oil,...
View ArticleWave.
Hey there. It’s been a while. I’ve got some thoughts about returning to writing and taking pictures again soon, but they’re still only thoughts. For now, I can tell you that Fleming Rutledge’s The...
View ArticleBooks I’ve Read in 2019
Last year, someone said to me, “but the point of reading a book isn’t to finish it and put it on a list of books you say you’ve read!,” and I thought “oh, you have no idea that that’s exactly what I...
View ArticleBack to school.
What was supposed to be a fourteen-month stint has turned into two-years-and-a-bit, so this weekend I’m packing up to return to the Middle East after a few months in the States. I am tearful and...
View ArticleIdentity, Part 1/Many.
Living in Israel has impelled me to write. Not since I was in middle or high school have I felt the need to write. I don’t like it. I don’t like it, because I’m not happy with my writing. My writing...
View ArticleThings I’m Super Into at the End of 2020.
The main reason I’m thinking about opening up the blog again was that I want a place to talk about all the things that I’m enjoying and that nobody wants to get texts from me about. For instance,...
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