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@jabel “My desire to make a point transcended time and space” is one of the funniest lines I’ve read recently. Spot on.

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@jabel Ah, the phone call. Inter-library loan is one of the greatest forms of technology. Last week my wife requested a book from our local library and it came…from my university library. Will make the renewal easier.

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@dwalbert This was definitely a pizza-worthy read. I’ll have to treat myself (or convince Pizza Hut my kid read it).

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My working hypothesis is that our culture has been in decline since we stopped checking out library books like this.

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@bethanyh Beautiful shelving unit! I have one about that size in my dining room. Similar style, but I love the shelf and cabinet layout on yours.

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@dwalbert I don’t expect O Brother to be supplanted as my favorite film adaptation (such an incredible film). I’m going purely in hopes for a visual spectacle. I think the best case is this is Nolan’s Ten Commandments.

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@andrewz Love that, thanks for sharing. Mine has marginalia as well, but I’m pretty sure I picked it up at a used book sale so I don’t know whose. Some of the notes were actually pretty helpful!

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@JohnBrady I liked it enough to consider another translation (probably Wilson, I’ve read some very interesting essays of hers), but that’s a ways off. I think I’ll reread Beowulf now that it’s Epics Summer for me.

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@apoorplayer my Greek is just good enough to sound out the words. In some of the translators notes I did and even doing that you can hear you can hear what wonderful language it must be.

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📚Finished Reading: The Odyssey, Homer (Trans. Robert Fitzgerald)

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Great book, you should read it.

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Not sure what I expected, but this was just pure fun. It’s the original fun summer read. And yes, I do have IMAX tickets later this week.

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@dswanson in line for it at the library. Thank you!

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📚 Finished Reading: The Psychology of Imagination, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Several books I’ve read recently interacted with portions of this so I decided to go to the source. A bit of a chore to read (definitely out of my wheelhouse) but lots of insightful bits as well.

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Jean-Paul Sartre demonstrating he knows his audience:

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But since the idea…is still repugnant to many French readers, we shall resort to a subterfuge, that is, to a method somewhat more complex.

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@JohnBrady Students who can play what they hear are often good at it, as long as they are proficient note readers as well. If they only play by ear or only play by reading they tend to struggle. We want them to be able to do both of course, which is why they all have to take my class :)

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The Word and The Shape: isaacgreene.com

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Got started on the dadoes today. On small projects I’ve been known to cut these by hand but life is short and summer shorter, so I used the tracksaw. It does a nifty job and doing the sides clamped together means everything lines up.

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@dswanson I would love to know the title of the book about Oak trees. Sounds exactly like something I would enjoy.

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@miljko The speed that google searches went from almost-always-useful, to usually-not-useful, is really incredible.

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Stuff Music Campers Say: isaacgreene.com

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📚Finished Reading: 1,000 Chairs.

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Not a book you might say you read, exactly, but I did read every word. Conclusion: being in a book does not make you a good chair. At least 500 were hideous, less than 100 I thought were worthwhile. Also confimed my dislike of Italian Modernism.

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@JohnBrady Seems like an awful lot of money for a phone that purports to do very little as a design feature.

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Teaching high school guitar camp this week. One of my favorite weeks of the summer surrounded by kids who absolutely love playing music.

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@writingslowly I’ve been in my shop building an 8’x6’ set of bookshelves since we’ve overflowed all our current shelves. Here I stand!

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@dwalbert It certainly felt like work. Would love to take a class with Roy sometime, what a character.

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Aftermath from flattening about 50 sq ft of Poplar panels for a huge set of shelves im making.

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The Price of a Name in the latest issue of Plough is don’t miss reading.

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@jabel I don’t think I realized they wrote a book! Definitely one I’ll put on my list.

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Day trip to the Georgia Aquarium today. The kids absolutely loved it. There were a lot of people.

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@gbosarge I’m glad they still do that! I figured it had gone away, I’ll have to enroll my oldest now thats he’s reading a bit.

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Say want you want about FIFA, but the Treaty of Tourdesillas has been honored.

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@dwalbert When I was a child I got free pizza for reading (my parents also paid a per page bounty). Posting here is all I have left!

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@davoh Such a good word. I used to teach guitar lessons to lots of adult beginners. Eventually I developed a little speech/pep talk about embracing being bad at something in an otherwise high-functioning adult life. Somewhere I picked up the phrase “oasis of incompetence,” which I loved. It’s refreshing even though you’re not good at it.

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The last time I saw a praying mantis was in my house in Baltimore. She in fact, as the hymnwriter once said, “came in through the bathroom window.”

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True to its name, this one was observing the sabbath with great piety.

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@ReaderJohn It was so much fun! Got me in the mood for more epics so I’m reading The Odyssey now. (Not much further to read upstream after that…)

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@dwalbert @jaheppler Thanks! The layout gobblins were on my side this time, everything worked out great.

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Quick backsplash project for my in-laws. If I set any more tile this summer I’m going to have to change careers.

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@jaheppler Housekeeping is very good. The rest of the books set in Gilead are also remarkable. Jack is a particular favorite, about Broughton’s son.

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@manton The name also… leaves something to be desired 🙃

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@jaheppler First time? How you holding up? (That book really did a number on me the first time I read it).

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@elliotlovegrove I thought you would enjoy this! He’s a treasure, I love basically everything he does (the songs with Kronos Quartet especially). It’s a great take of the CarolineShaw piece too.

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Now that my bathroom remodel is done I have some time to practice again. Working on a program of three sonatas for the fall, including this beautiful piece by Mauro Giuliani. It has two absolute knockout tunes, this one being the second theme of the first movement.

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Music is: isaacgreene.com

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Went searching for an old Sam Amidon album and found this brand new one instead. I am exactly the intended audience for this kind of project, I’ve listened about 10 times now.

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Contrasts in Sound: isaacgreene.com

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My son rendered me as a minifigure. This is a proud father moment.

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I cannot enhance what little skills I have by criticizing others.

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📚 Finished Reading: Theo of Golden, Allen Levi.

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Lovely, but not my cup of literary tea. I think this says more about my own difficulty being warmed and filled than anything else. Bigger hearted friends love this book and I completely get it.

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This sensible piece by @bradeast has given me the literary metaphor I’ve needed. When it comes to AI, I’m Bartleby, and I would prefer not to.

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Two poems I often return to on Father’s Day:

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Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden. When this poem found me I needed the phrase “love’s austere and lonely offices\" so much.

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my father moved through dooms of love, e. e. cummings. I get more from this every year, but the music and rhythm is enough.

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📚Finished Reading: Places I’ve Taken My Body, Molly McCully Brown.

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Great book of essays on her life with cerebral palsy, including one of my all-time favorites, Bent Body, Lamb. Which you should read, but only when you have the time and space to digest it.

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