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@isaacgreene reading this to my sons (12 and 9) right now! We just arrived at CENTRAL Central Intelligence.

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Our youngest was just introduced and read all of the them (and I read Witches and BFG aloud to him) over the last few weeks. Except for Boy, which he thought might be too different/boring. @johnbrady do you recommend it?

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@bethanyh I had that same thought . . . almost added “Replace ‘students’ with ‘children,’ and ‘classroom’ with ‘home,’ and it hits even harder.

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“If our lives do not somehow witness to the truth, somehow reflect and attest the truth in our own limited ways, students will not find us credible, no matter how impressive our theological reasoning happens to be. In the classroom, we are never not teaching. Everything we say and do (and do not do)...

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@isaacgreene Yes, my interest in the topic of limits (thanks to Wendell Berry, Ivan Illich) has had me aware of/interested in Schumacher for years, but I finally just took the plunge and ordered a copy. Much of what he wrote here in the 70s (esp. re: natural capital/ecology/technology) feels prophetic when looking at the subsequent 50 years and the climate crisis.

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@isaacgreene I appreciated these reflections - thank you! I recently reread Blaise Pascal on distraction, and he would agree that the market for distraction is deeply rooted in the human condition.

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Edit: I clicked through your link to L. M. Sacasas’s article to see him building significantly on Pascal. Apparently we’re all just putting Pascal on repeat these days! And for good reason. :)

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For Schumacher, “Small is Beautiful” only when in the right proportion/relationship to the large: “What I wish to emphasize is the duality of the human requirement when it comes to the question of size: there is no single answer. For his different purposes man needs many different structures, both small ones...

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Schumacher on Scientific and Humanistic Education: tasteforsigns.micro.blog

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@ablerism @mbattles Agree as well, and I don’t think love shows up later in the book, either. It’s our inconsistency in love (part of the “crooked timber” of humanity) that both inclines me toward the anarchist squint (distribution of power as means of preventing its abuse) and keeps me at only two rather than three cheers for it (since only if men were angels would no government be necessary).

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@ablerism Interesting! I found Two Cheers a bit uneven (I loved Seeing Like a State, so had high expectations), but still good. My headspace (so far as I’m aware) comes from seeing the remarkable neighborhood resistance to Operation Metro Surge up here these past weeks, which has me following several threads related to localism.

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@isaacgreene Yes, it’s been on my list for a long time but I just finally got a copy. I find myself wishing intensely that this perspective had been heeded in the 1970s instead of just barreling forward on the current trajectory for another 50+ years.

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“You cannot spill one drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a narrow tribe of men . . . our blood is as the flood of the Amazon, made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one. We are not so much a nation as a world.” Hermann Melville, Redburn

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This one’s on repeat for Christians in the Twin Cities.

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Favorite vinyl find in the last weeks

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Standout track: “The Lakes of Ponchartrain”

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He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
\nhe breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
\nhe burns the chariots with fire.
\n“Be still, and know that I am God.
\nI will be exalted among the nations,
\nI will be exalted in the earth!”
\n-Psalm 46

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youtu.be/eooL5V1QL…

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“If intellectual life is not left to rest in its splendid uselessness, it will never bear its practical fruit. Likewise, the struggle for a just society is worthless if it costs us the fruit of justice.” Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

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Coleridge, on the function of poetry (specifically Wordsworth’s task in his contributions to Lyrical Ballads): “awakening the mind’s attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us.” Biographia Literaria, ch. 14

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More from Lewis on attention: “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” (The Magician’s Nephew)

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Now spinning 🎵

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First habanero harvest. 🌱

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@mjkaul Yes, it’s the only LeFaro I’ve heard but quite impressive. In honor of your comment, the Complete Village Vanguard recordings made my full morning work session soundtrack.

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@mjkaul Looks amazing! I need to visit some of these northern state parks.

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@mjkaul Loving it. Bill Evans’s Village Vanguard recordings are among my favorite jazz albums, and this might be moving ahead of them for me. Also, I can’t get enough of these Kevin Gray remasters. They all sound fantastic. (BTW I found this interesting interview with Kevin Gray, where he discusses his profound conversion, among other things.)

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@bethanyh Ha! An amazing resemblance

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@mwerickson I’m glad to know this is in the works, and I look forward to reading it! I wrote this reflection a few years ago about the impact of gardening on my own work, first as a grad student and then as an educator. The agricultural world furnishes us with a much better set of metaphors for thinking about human formation than does the industrial!

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🎵 New vinyl find: Doc Watson’s Southbound

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Crisp guitar and a nice variety of songs

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Celebrating Bill Evans' birthday with a great new vinyl acquisition 🎵

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@mjkaul Interesting! Will add to the ‘to read’ list.

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@paultibbetts The Dingle Way will be a piece of cake by comparison (and a lot of road walking). But really gorgeous coastal views the whole way. Glad to hear TMB highly recommended!

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🎵 Currently spinning:

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Mr. Beaver’s wise counsel for the age of LLMs: “But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.”

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@paultibbetts On my bucket list, after hiking the Dingle Way a couple summers back and looking for other long routes. This looks absolutely incredible - enjoy!

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