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Last night at this time it was mid-40s F outside and I had a nice walk with my kid. Tonight it’s 15F and blowing 20+ mph. Guess winter’s back.
2025 Reads: The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell 📚
Beautiful essays capturing portraits of a people and place long lost to history and urbanization.
2025 Reads: The Spirit of Hope by Byung-Chul Han 📚
There’s a lot to chew on here. Hope as an opposite of anxiety and as something more grounded and realistic than optimism… I am here for it. “The spirit of hope seeks out in the past the traces of what is coming.”
2025 Reads: The Alteration by Kingsley Amis 📚
Not really reading this on Christmas Eve night… just catching up posting. 😂
Imaginative alt history, but why oh why must it be centered on testicles?
So far today I have procured breakfast, hit the gym, read a book, eaten lunch, watched a Christmas movie, done some miscellaneous chores… and it’s 3:30 pm, which means I still have 7 hours before I need to be to church for the late Christmas Eve service. May resort to caffeine. Oof.
Listened back to a podcast discussion I was on and realized how frequently I’m using the word “right?” as a punctuation at the end of a thought. Now that I’m aware I’m hearing it among a lot of my coworkers, too. Where did that come from? Gonna have to work to stomp it out of my speech patterns.
Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for making me aware of this: a new Sixpence None the Richer Tiny Desk Concert!
I am a couple years behind on this one, but Sufjan Stevens’ instrumental album Reflections is my favorite new discovery in a while.