from The Hungarian Confessio Catholica (1562): lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/03/23/from-the-hungarian-confessio-catholica.html","date_published":"2026-03-23T21:15:13+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 21:15","date_timestamp":1774300513,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86674042","content_html":"Saturday Links & Quotes - 3/21/26: lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/03/21/saturday-links-quotes.html","date_published":"2026-03-21T15:12:46+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-21 15:12","date_timestamp":1774105966,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82386417","content_html":"Der Blaue Reiter (1903) by Wassily Kandinsky
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Flignified.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fwassily-kandinsky-1903-the-blue-rider-der-blaue-reiter-oil-on-canvas-52.1-x.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/01/19/der-blaue-reiter-by-wassily.html","date_published":"2026-01-19T13:55:25+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-19 13:55","date_timestamp":1768830925,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"78813885","content_html":"“See, if I was big into the devil, I would have spelled it right.”\n\n
Grimmness - Hitchcock vs. Wertham\n\n
vacancies, absences: lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/09/07/vacancies-absences.html","date_published":"2025-09-07T22:38:15+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-07 22:38","date_timestamp":1757284695,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70426094","content_html":"Finished 2025: Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian 📚\n\nI don’t know why I can’t accept anything about this book. I can accept all sorts of weird plots and characters, but it’s a bridge roo far for me to accept that a pea, a bee, and a jay could be friends. I’m slightly offended by this book! It’s r... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/08/03/finished-pea-bee-jay-stuck.html","date_published":"2025-08-03T20:39:45+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-03 20:39","date_timestamp":1754253585,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70425936","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780895266385/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson 📚
\nOne never finishes this book.
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Finished 2025: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 📚
\nAnother re-read.
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Finished 2025: Lady into Fox (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantas… by David Garnett 📚
\nI’m grateful that this gem was called to my attention. Since reading it last week, I have been recommending it repeatedly!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/31/finished-lady-into-fox-dover.html","date_published":"2025-07-31T17:12:27+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-31 17:12","date_timestamp":1753981947,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70227728","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781528767491/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚
\nRe-read. Always a joy to re-read.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/31/finished-treasure-island-illustrated-by.html","date_published":"2025-07-31T16:36:06+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-31 16:36","date_timestamp":1753979766,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69915918","content_html":"Sørina Higgins is starting a podcast! She has no idea who I am, but I have been a reader of her Charles Williams blog for over a decade now. I listen to very few podcasts; this is one that I’m excited about.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/27/srina-higgins-is-starting-a.html","date_published":"2025-07-27T14:19:09+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-27 14:19","date_timestamp":1753625949,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69885300","content_html":"Confirmed: Kierkegaard was a smoker.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/26/confirmed-kierkegaard-was-a-smoker.html","date_published":"2025-07-27T00:09:30+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-27 00:09","date_timestamp":1753574970,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69478656","content_html":"When 'academic' is another word for 'detective': lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/21/150032.html","date_published":"2025-07-21T19:00:32+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-21 19:00","date_timestamp":1753124432,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69462898","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781527110694/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: Shared Life by Donald Macleod 📚
\nGood enough for what it is (a slim introduction to the topic for beginners), I guess.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/21/finished-shared-life-by-donald.html","date_published":"2025-07-21T15:31:00+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-21 15:31","date_timestamp":1753111860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69293685","content_html":"read fewer books but read them with greater care
\n\n\nThere are many valid reasons to read, but if you’re about self-improvement in one way or another — an increase in knowledge or insight or, hey, even wisdom — then one of the most reliable ways to become a better reader is to read fewer books but read them with greater care. If you would be wise, an essential book you know intimately — through slow reading or repeated reading — is of more use to you than a dozen lesser books that you know only casually.
\n
https://blog.ayjay.org/getting-through/
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/18/read-fewer-books-but-read.html","date_published":"2025-07-18T22:43:56+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-18 22:43","date_timestamp":1752878636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69256316","content_html":"Finished 2025: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📚\nMy first Morrison (and Morrison’s first novel), past due.\nThe writing is lovely. Characters are (mostly) fully realized.\nWhat I wasn’t expecting was the degree to which this novel is about mass media and the ways in which 20th century mass media shaped cultu... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/18/finished-the-bluest-eye-by.html","date_published":"2025-07-18T13:50:46+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-18 13:50","date_timestamp":1752846646,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68413990","content_html":"The Maverick Animator of Chaos\nAbout Shinya Ohira.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/07/the-maverick-animator-of-chaos.html","date_published":"2025-07-07T17:42:56+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-07 17:42","date_timestamp":1751910176,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68397100","content_html":"\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/07/kayaking-manhattan-journalist-eliot-stein.html","date_published":"2025-07-07T13:46:06+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-07 13:46","date_timestamp":1751895966,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68092012","content_html":" \n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/02/202553.html","date_published":"2025-07-03T00:25:53+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-03 00:25","date_timestamp":1751502353,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67996022","content_html":"Journalist Eliot Stein takes us along on the unique adventure of kayaking the perimeter of Manhattan Island and observes some of the pockets of nature that persist within New York’s concrete jungle.
\n
Note to myself. Read this: \nANTIQUA ET NOVA
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/01/note-to-myself-read-this.html","date_published":"2025-07-01T20:38:25+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-01 20:38","date_timestamp":1751402305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67721789","content_html":"Le Cyclope (c. 1914) by Odilon Redon
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Flignified.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F1914-redon-zyklop-anagoria.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/06/27/le-cyclope-c-by-odilon.html","date_published":"2025-06-27T10:09:23+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-27 10:09","date_timestamp":1751018963,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67721623","content_html":"Demons and ChatGPT\n\n\"The Christian must practice spiritual watchfulness and custody of the eyes. In our time, this means treating AI not as a source of authority or personal significance, but as a tool with no inherent claim on our attention or trust. Athanasius writes: “Where Christ is named, and his faith, there all idolatry is deposed and all imposture of evil spirits is exposed, and any spirit is unable to endure even the name, nay even on barely hearing it flies and disappears.” So too here. Clarity begins when we name the thing rightly. AI does not possess insight. It cannot judge. The only rea... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/06/27/demons-and-chatgpt-the-christian.html","date_published":"2025-06-27T10:05:34+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-27 10:05","date_timestamp":1751018734,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67181922","content_html":"Finished 2025: Under the Dome by Stephen King 📚\n\nSo many things wrong with this stupid book… but it was also a surprisingly compelling page-turner. It doesn’t matter if I rolled my eyes each time I turned a page. I kept turning the page.\n\nThe best thing I can say about this big book is that it made me want... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/06/19/finished-under-the-dome-by.html","date_published":"2025-06-20T01:03:44+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-20 01:03","date_timestamp":1750381424,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"66881713","content_html":"Katherine Dee:
\nLet’s Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis
\nThe Internet as the Astral Plane. The Internet as Fairyland
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/06/16/katherine-dee-lets-talk-about.html","date_published":"2025-06-16T11:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-16 11:00","date_timestamp":1750071600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"61539818","content_html":"@Mtt This looks neat, but… I can’t find any photo or video review that actually shows what this wallet looks like in a pocket!
\nOne of the reasons I use a really thin wallet is because I dislike pocket bulge!
\np.s. I’m here because I appreciate your Sumo theme and wanted to see who was behind it! Thank you!