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From LaGuardia tonight

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@ReaderJohn How great. Art transports us to other times and places.

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@dwalbert I went for the Krasner/Pollock show, which is great. But I just cannot bypass the American wing when I’m here.

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@dwalbert Sargent on the left and Thomas Eakins on the right.

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NYC

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Possibly my favorite corner in this big city.

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RIP, Patrick Stewart

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In 1978, as a college junior, I saw Patrick Stewart as Enobabus in the RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra. Glenda Jackson played Cleopatra. She was good; Stewart was masterful. After almost 50 years, it’s Patrick Stewart whom I remember.

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Here he discusses the role.

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And here is a sample.

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@frjonjordan If it weren’t a lie (which I believe is frowned upon in both the church and the academy), you should’ve told them you practiced very hard every day making letters, and eventually the rhythm of that just became a habit.

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Before the crowd

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Truck Yard, Dallas

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@dwalbert I hope you enjoy it.

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@isaacgreene This one’s less a character and more a sweetheart, but lots of fun to listen to.

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This is Happiness by Niall Williams

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There was no reason to suppose the fine weather had only come for Easter, but if reason accounted for all that human beings did the history of the world would be a straightforward telling.

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What’s It Like to Be …

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The podcast What’s it Like to Be … with Dan Heath is a real treat. Especially great is “What’s It Like to Be a Piano Tuner,” which is a conversation with a master piano tuner at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall. It’ll make you smile.

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@frjonjordan THAT was a complete win! I loved how they played through the press, both through the middle and down the sides. The beautiful game indeed. #coys

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I dwell in possibility

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This poetry project by A.O. Scott of the NYTimes is lovely. And the latest offers a wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson:

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I dwell in Possibility -
\nA fairer House than Prose -
\nMore numerous of Windows -
\nSuperior - for Doors -

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Of Chambers as the Cedars -
\nImpregnable of eye -
\nAnd for an everlasting Roof.\nThe Gambrels of the Sky -

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Of Visitors - the fairest -
\nFor Occupation - This -
\nThe spreading wide my narrow Hands.\nTo gather Paradise -

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@tinyroofnail I LOVE, “to moderate grim vigour /
\nwith the knobble of bare knees…”

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There’s no way grim vigor can stand up unmodified to knobbly bare knees.

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@annahavron Yep, it’s a good one. I cannot remember where it’s from, but it’s Texas, so not that rare.

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Tasty

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@frjonjordan So so so so good! I actually was watching on my phone while at the gym, and let out a whoop, punched the air, and stamped my feet. No one seemed to notice, but of course, I wouldn’t have cared!

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@lukemperez Breakfast of Champions. (Or lunch.)

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Currently reading. And enjoying.

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He had the wan face of a farmer in calving season, eyes small from lack of sleep and close encounters with viscera.

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“like shining from shook foil”

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A Half-Dozen Feel-Good Movies

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  1. About Time
    2. \n
  2. The Shop Around the Corner
    3. \n
  3. The Tao of Steve
    4. \n
  4. Casablanca
    5. \n
  5. Cold Comfort Farm
    6. \n
  6. What’s Up Doc?
    7. \n
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Feel like sharing some of yours?

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@tinyroofnail I’ve ordered it from the wonderful Abe Books.

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Presented without comment (because none is needed) to my fellow Texas voters:

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From the WSJ:

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Elon Musk Pours a Fortune Into Saving Texas for Republicans\nThe world’s richest man donated $158 million to an effort backing state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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@KyleEssary We had a fun time!

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@ReaderJohn I can confirm that those wind arrows are blowing down into Texas. Very blustery this morning.

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@tinyroofnail Me too. I believe I first learned of him through the Mars Hill recordings.

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@ReaderJohn @tinyroofnai I will look for that Meilander piece. Thanks.

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@tinyroofnail Thanks for pointing me to that piece.

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At the State Fair

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Can you guess which state? It’s a toughie.

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Retirement Day + 10 months

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  1. At first, you still wake up thinking, “What do I have to do today?” Followed by the nice realization: “I don’t have to do ANYTHING today!”
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  2. Eventually, though, there’s the even better wake-up thought: “What do I GET to do today?”
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How surprising.

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From the Texas Tribune:

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Since assuming office in 2015, Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million….

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Records detailing the purpose of Paxton’s visits to 36 states and 19 countries do not appear to exist in most cases. These include a trip to a small town in Hawaii months before his family’s blind trust bought land there; 24 trips to Utah, where the trust owns five properties; and 53 trips to Florida, where Paxton and the trust have two houses and a townhome.

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Moonrise at Sunrise

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08 Oct 2026

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@DandelionUtilitarian I’m with you. It never gets stale.

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Reminds me of elections in a Trollope novel

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Per CNBC:

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The Trump administration began sending $500 refunds1 on Wednesday to more than 950,000 Obamacare enrollees… Recipients are largely those earning more than 400% of the federal poverty line…

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1Not really a refund; just a payment dictated by the WH.

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In other words, a bribe to many folks who don’t need the money.

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He’s also sending $90 checks to 20 million folks on Medicare. “Not eligible are … millions of … people with disabilities and low-income[s].”

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When that $90 comes in, I’m sending it straight to the Talarico campaign.

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@manton I hope.

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@KyleEssary Paxton is flooding TV and the internet with ads that I think are having an effect. Folks, remember, Paxton is a criminal and an adulterer. We already have one of those in the White House. That’s more than enough for one country.

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@frjonjordan FYI, when Megan saw the book, she said, “Oh, what a beautiful cover!” Tell Viv.

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@frjonjordan, excited that my copy of Rhythms of Habit just arrived. I look forward to reading it. I’m highly impressed, even before p. 1, by blurbs from Malcolm Guite, Victor Lee Austin, and most magnificently, of course, Dr. E. R. Kincaid! High praise, indeed.

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Seriously, congratulations.

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Gilead

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I finished reading Marilyn Robinson’s Gilead. I have tons of thoughts about this wonderful novel, but they’re jumbled. For now, I think I’ll leave them that way. It’s wiser simply to be with this book for a while than to dissect it.

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@ffmike Hmmm. Thanks for the link!

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Crazy thought

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Even if the GOP barely keeps the Senate in November, is it possible that an impeachment trial in the next two years would convict Trump with some GOP votes, on the theory that kicking him out could help them in the 2028 elections?

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@frjonjordan I’m not giving up on Spurs. That would just be wrong.

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But I’m switching to supporting the women’s team. (Maybe. At any rate, I will start paying attention to them.)

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Interesting Point About Trump’s CNN, et al., Ban

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Someone on the PBS Newshour noted that Trump’s banning of news agencies he doesn’t like is of a piece with his gutting of government inspectors general. Anyone whose job is to hold him accountable is his enemy.

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@jaheppler I loved the Nano, too.

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Spurs, here’s a reminder.

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@frjonjordan, if this helps, I’m all for it.

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Oh, boy.

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Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard so close together. I am so grateful for both of them. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

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I’m a lamp.

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I love the quiet humor of “Poorly Drawn Lines” by Reza Farazmand.

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Benefits of Age

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Jonah Goldberg:

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I often roll my eyes when young people claim that older people “just don’t understand” this or that. We know what it was—what it is—like to be young; we just also know what it’s like not to be, too.

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I’d say, “We know what it was like to be young when we were young. We know – in part – what it’s like to be young today”

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9/11

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All changed, changed utterly…

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Too long a sacrifice
\nCan make a stone of the heart.

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– W.B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916”

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O, God, our times are in your hand…

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– Psalm 31

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