The problem with ending your tour of Switzerland and eastern France with two meals out in Lyon is that you forget all the other nice meals out that came before them. Exquis !
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Just re-watched: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) at an open-air screening at Kocherpark in Bern. Darkly comic, peak indie-pop roadtrip quirkfest with a gooey caramel center. If only togetherness and courage rose this easily out of deep family dysfunction in real life. These characters are only pretending to be losers. Still, there’s enough nutrition in this R-rated, live-action cousin to Pixar to inspire, say, a merely ...
","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/05/just-rewatched-little-miss-sunshine.html","date_published":"2026-08-06T03:30:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-06 03:30","date_timestamp":1785987000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95845042","content_html":"Enough interiority! How shall I bless my daughter before we leave her in Europe? Write her a note.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/03/enough-interiority-how-shall-i.html","date_published":"2026-08-03T22:02:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-03 22:02","date_timestamp":1785794520,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94903703","content_html":"Just finished reading: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
\nAnarchy rules, maybe.
\nI think I ought to start steering clear of politically charged, interplanetary sci-fi. (I’m thinking here of how I couldn’t finish Dune.) The subgenre just doesn’t seem to do anything for me. It could be that I’m just not into politics, i.e., all activities concerning questions of who is in charge of what and how those people make the rules.
\nBut there were certain quotations I found beautiful or thought-provoking:
\nIt just registered with me that the shirt I just bought left off the God part. I confess I feel a little disappointed about that.
\n friend: \nI did notice that. And then I noticed that I actually like that. And then I spent some time pondering—feeling some shame for being negatively associated with bad...
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\nI lack the vocabulary and leisure to write much about the cracklingly alive music of the great 20th-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, seven hours of whose greatest music can be found in this playlist. But what I can tell you is that he comes across to me as an intensely focused...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/10/im-only-sitting-here-entertaining.html","date_published":"2026-07-10T10:45:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-10 10:45","date_timestamp":1783680324,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93662223","content_html":"It never occurred to me how head-turningly paradoxical this command from Galatians is: “Become slaves to one another” (5:13). The very nature of a slave relationship is that the power is unipolar. How can slavery be mutual? (There’s certainly an antisocial, obsessional, probably erotic way of interpreting...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/07/i-have-attention-surplus-disorder.html","date_published":"2026-07-08T01:37:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 01:37","date_timestamp":1783474670,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93556816","content_html":"Just finished reading (in one sitting): Miracles & Marvels: A Life-Long Love Affair with God (2024) by my neighbor Marie Hamilton. A brief, guileless, autobiographical and episodic account of thirty healings, improbable moments, timely pairings of prayer-and-answer, divine taps on the shoulder, audible...
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scottstilson.blog","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/07/03/charlie-carla-and-i-bumped.html","date_published":"2026-07-04T01:36:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-04 01:36","date_timestamp":1783128964,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93307814","content_html":"Just finished reading: Paul and the Power of Grace (2020) by John M. G. Barclay. A 70% reduction for laymen of Barclay’s well-received, paradigm-establishing doorstop Paul and the Gift (2015), which through a brief survey of the anthropology of gifts followed by close examinations of Paul’s letters to the...
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\n(It helped that she was wearing a one-of-a-kind, red-white-and-blue Free Subu button she had handmade last week. Appropriation of Old...
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\nBut I say to myself (as I’ve said before): I need to let go. It’s “do...
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\nBut to what?
\nIt’s easy picking
\nEasy sticking
\nWhen I have a calling. ✏️ 🎤 🎵
Theoretically, it’s not only possible to hold orthodox (or, if you prefer, traditional) theological views in one hand and progressive social and political views in the other, but also, in an abstract, platonic, logical sense, more probable than not, all else being equal. That the combination appears rare in...
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