{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Matthew Battles","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/mbattles","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1526187","username":"mbattles","bio":"Writer entangled in the nature of trees, meaning, memory, and deep time. Author of TREE (Bloomsbury 2017) among other books. Editor at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς·","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":42,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2023/49/1526187.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"96891079","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/overholt@glammr.us\" class=\"u-url mention\">@overholt</a></span> Last week I received this email from “an author”: “<em>Widener</em> caught my attention. The way the book traces the library’s life from its 1915 opening … made me curious: what led you to approach that particular arc through the lens of a ‘biography’ rather than … institutional history?”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96891079","date_published":"2026-09-03T13:56:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 13:56","date_timestamp":1788443788,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96706899","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/overholt@glammr.us\" class=\"u-url mention\">@overholt</a></span> Practice what he preach: <a href=\"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-50745-3_6\">link.springer.com/chapter/1…</a></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96706899","date_published":"2026-08-31T13:35:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-31 13:35","date_timestamp":1788183338,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96653572","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady\">@JohnBrady</a> There’s something to that!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96653572","date_published":"2026-08-30T12:10:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-30 12:10","date_timestamp":1788091853,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96651751","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady\">@JohnBrady</a> In a nice false cognate, YouTube’s captioning renders “Zion’s walls” as “science walls.”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96651751","date_published":"2026-08-30T11:04:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-30 11:04","date_timestamp":1788087893,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96650357","content_html":"<p>Sounds of the one who is sleeping in the corner room. A growl rises from deep in the vine: the whir of a hummingbird. Quiet everything that is restless within me.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmbattles.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fimg-2178.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/08/30/sounds-of-the-one-who.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T10:19:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-30 10:19","date_timestamp":1788085194,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96557786","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> I am looking forward to the algae blooms and the construction of waterfront UFC fighting venues.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96557786","date_published":"2026-08-28T15:40:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 15:40","date_timestamp":1787931650,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96552950","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/andrewz\">@andrewz</a> This makes sense—there is value in giving shape to attention! I wonder if there’s an expanded version that takes in patterns at neighborhood and community scale—perhaps you already had these patterns/factors sorted?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96552950","date_published":"2026-08-28T14:06:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 14:06","date_timestamp":1787926001,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96552269","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/andrewz\">@andrewz</a> Just seeing this—how cool!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96552269","date_published":"2026-08-28T13:49:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 13:49","date_timestamp":1787924992,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96546345","content_html":"<p>Catbirds are calling from deep in the rhododendrons; the fog is lifting out of the trees. The feast is upon us. Have I kept enough oil for my lamp?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/08/28/catbirds-are-calling-from-deep.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T11:09:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 11:09","date_timestamp":1787915344,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96513037","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/andrewz\">@andrewz</a> Doesn’t it!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96513037","date_published":"2026-08-27T20:47:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 20:47","date_timestamp":1787863642,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96497092","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mbattles\">@mbattles</a> (To be fair, last year I participated in a backward-design workshop run by MIT’s amazing ed-design team, all of whom are experienced pedagogues across disciplines. Most attendees were adjuncts. Such efforts could use a big boost!)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96497092","date_published":"2026-08-27T15:43:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 15:43","date_timestamp":1787845395,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96496916","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://micro.blog/natematias@social.coop\" class=\"u-url mention\">@natematias</a></span> I wonder how such an effort could support MIT’s “other academic staff,” who outnumber faculty roughly 4 to 1, and who mostly lack release time, offices, or sabbaticals, resources crucial to revising and innovating pedagogically.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96496916","date_published":"2026-08-27T15:39:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 15:39","date_timestamp":1787845178,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96483338","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> I’m going! And will try to write something about it if I can get thoughts to come together.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/96483338","date_published":"2026-08-27T10:26:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 10:26","date_timestamp":1787826414,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96483254","content_html":"<p>“Keep awake therefore…” I realize that I fundamentally misunderstand the nature of time.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/08/27/keep-awake-therefore-i-realize.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T10:24:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 10:24","date_timestamp":1787826268,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96463519","content_html":"<p>Intrigued by the Malcolm Guite (and Dr. Martin Shaw) show that’s <a href=\"https://register.hopewords.org/liftingtheveil\">coming to Boston in October.</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/08/26/intrigued-by-the-malcolm-guite.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T01:09:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 01:09","date_timestamp":1787792992,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96421548","content_html":"<p>Her vast artistry was rooted in family, and place, and time, and time <a href=\"https://vimeopro.com/dollyparton/dollyparton/video/123437343\">vimeopro.com/dollypart…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/08/26/her-vast-artistry-was-rooted.html","date_published":"2026-08-26T10:48:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-26 10:48","date_timestamp":1787741318,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96420265","content_html":"<p>I’m always renewed by the vast animacy and gentle embrace of the sea. 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Congratulations to you all.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/89187464","date_published":"2026-04-28T18:13:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 18:13","date_timestamp":1777399986,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88944195","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Yes! The container is crucial, one wants to say. And sharing a sense of building/Bildung, a trajectory or way, feels right.</p>\n<p>When I think of all I don’t know about my students’ tissue of attention in any given moment, I’m filled with a wild wonder.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88944195","date_published":"2026-04-24T17:50:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 17:50","date_timestamp":1777053027,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88928595","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> I’ll admit to curiosity about the invitation to cultivate of habits of attentive work described at the top, however. I’m not sure it’s beyond assessment—or anyway, that its possible effects aren’t observable in shifting qualities of response. (The prompt-grooming bit is so much stuff.)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88928595","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:58:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:58","date_timestamp":1777039112,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88928059","content_html":"<p>Stumbling out of inspired/dismayed encounter with Whitehead this morning into <a href=\"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/24/from-wendell-berry-a-small.html\">Wendell Berry</a>, a balm.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/24/stumbling-out-of-inspireddismayed-encounter.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:49:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:49","date_timestamp":1777038546,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88931336","content_html":"<p>From Wendell Berry, A Small Porch (XI): <a href=\"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/24/from-wendell-berry-a-small.html\">mbattles.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/24/from-wendell-berry-a-small.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:42:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:42","date_timestamp":1777038178,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88926819","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> Nice! What a world she makes in voice.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88926819","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:28:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:28","date_timestamp":1777037331,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88873709","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> This recording (on cassette, natch) is one of dozens from Aadam Jacobs, who worked sound at shows around town from the eighties through the aughts, which the IA is digitizing. I wonder if Brian ever ran into Jacobs back in the day.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88873709","date_published":"2026-04-23T18:58:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 18:58","date_timestamp":1776970737,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88873507","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Ha, that’s a wonderful detail. I wasn’t there, but gosh I should’ve been.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88873507","date_published":"2026-04-23T18:56:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 18:56","date_timestamp":1776970566,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88870050","content_html":"<p>Joyous at the rediscovery that any given string of words might stir deep wonder at the gift of having been alive in time and place. A string of words like, “<a href=\"https://archive.org/details/ajc02870_tracy-chapman-1988-05-07/TracyChapman1988-05-07t07.flac\">Tracy Chapman Live at Cabaret Metro 1988-05-7</a>,” for instance.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/23/joyous-at-the-rediscovery-that.html","date_published":"2026-04-23T17:54:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 17:54","date_timestamp":1776966885,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88792073","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> May it be the breaking open of something beautiful!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88792073","date_published":"2026-04-22T16:49:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-22 16:49","date_timestamp":1776876589,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88778949","content_html":"<p>Grateful for @willowbl00 <a href=\"https://blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/04/the-beauty-of-impermanence/\">on the beauty of impermanence and the horror of being turned into an LLM</a>. It takes me to <em>Middlemarch</em>: “that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/22/grateful-for-willowbl-on-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-22T13:37:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-22 13:37","date_timestamp":1776865062,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88737486","content_html":"<p>Iris Murdoch: “Our ability to act well ‘when the time comes’ depends partly, perhaps largely, upon the quality of our habitual objects of attention.”</p>\n<p>Beyond cognitive surrender, I wonder about a kind of moral surrender in turning over to chatbots innumerable tiny, everyday moments of discernment</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/21/iris-murdoch-our-ability-to.html","date_published":"2026-04-21T21:43:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-21 21:43","date_timestamp":1776807780,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88312571","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Doing a dive on this question, stumbled across <a href=\"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/70171453\">Edgar Miller’s remarkable sculptural program for Jane Addams House in CHI</a>—for the children’s wading pool!—<a href=\"https://nphm.org/exhibition/animal-court/\">recently restored for the National Public Housing Museum</a> (which I didn’t know), and which seems remarkable, too).</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88312571","date_published":"2026-04-15T16:01:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 16:01","date_timestamp":1776268907,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88308322","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mbattles\">@mbattles</a> The interiors of these post-office lobbies are wonderfully similar, which suggests there was a pattern book or published specification for post-office interiors in this time frame.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/88308322","date_published":"2026-04-15T15:05:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 15:05","date_timestamp":1776265530,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88308222","content_html":"<p><em>Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois</em>, WPA mural inside the post office in my hometown of Petersburg, IL (62675), painted in 1938 by John Winters; The Reverend John Eliot Preaching to the Indians, painted by William Abbott Cheever in 1941, in the post office in Chestnut Hill, MA (02467).</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmbattles.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fimg-1461.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmbattles.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fimg-5175.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/15/lincoln-in-new-salem-illinois.html","date_published":"2026-04-15T15:03:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 15:03","date_timestamp":1776265416,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://assemblag.es/@matthewbattles/116409331550330965"]}},{"id":"87695961","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> 👐</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/87695961","date_published":"2026-04-06T13:20:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-06 13:20","date_timestamp":1775481617,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87695909","content_html":"<p>Before the Vigil on Saturday, we saw <em>Sirāt</em>, which is brutal and so, so beautiful; last night, I watched <em>Mary Magdalene</em>, with Rooney Mara (excellent) and Joaquin Phoenix (a strange choice, but he won me over in the end).  I’m haunted by their strange complementarity. Anyone else seen one or both?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/04/06/before-the-vigil-on-saturday.html","date_published":"2026-04-06T13:18:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-06 13:18","date_timestamp":1775481532,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://assemblag.es/@matthewbattles/116357957956448994"]}},{"id":"87395554","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> I love the Tolkien connections; Rilke, too, intersects with these energies in his Marian poems.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mbattles/87395554","date_published":"2026-04-01T14:46:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-01 14:46","date_timestamp":1775054799,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84150430","content_html":"<p>How excellence can be a kind of cruelty.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/02/12/how-excellence-can-be-a.html","date_published":"2026-02-12T21:34:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew 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Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-05 16:49","date_timestamp":1770310184,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":true,"note":"","syndication":["https://assemblag.es/@matthewbattles/116019055579733328"],"audio":{"url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/uploads/2026/great-hare-excerpt.mp3","duration_seconds":59,"duration_display":"00:00:59"}}},{"id":"83646620","content_html":"<p>A bit of the song we made from this striking passage in WALDEN: <a href=\"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/02/05/a-bit-of-the-song.html\">mbattles.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/02/05/a-bit-of-the-song.html","date_published":"2026-02-05T16:32:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew 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etc.?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2026/02/04/are-other-authors-receiving-these.html","date_published":"2026-02-04T14:53:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-04 14:53","date_timestamp":1770216803,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://assemblag.es/@matthewbattles/116012928963817997"]}},{"id":"83280753","content_html":"<p>Looking for a photo, I ran across this early demo of Sonnet 32 from my project setting the sonnets to song. Was playing around with iMovie for iOS, hence the strange crop (I couldn’t get it to do otherwise). I didn’t have the sestet yet. 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This morning’s message, delivered by willow leaflet: water is magnificent.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmbattles.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2023%2Fimg-7335.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"600\" alt=\"a blade-shaped leaflet, face-up, on a water-coated iron railing, with several droplets of clear water magnifying the leaflet's pattern of veins\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/2023/12/04/hello-world-this.html","date_published":"2023-12-04T18:33:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Matthew Battles","url":"https://mbattles.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F49%2F1526187.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mbattles"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-12-04 18:33","date_timestamp":1701714805,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}