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@canneddragons Ha. Yeah, that could have been me as well…

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Deconstructed by frogs

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@canneddragons Love it. There was a horse barn built across the road when I was a kid. My cousin and I put a rubber frog in the top of the stem wall. I can’t believe it but I don’t think we ever named the little guy, but can still see his little head sticking out, looking southeast toward the brook.

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@writingslowly Ha! I hope @annahavron sees this

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@miljko Thanks for this. As someone who (thankfully only occasionally) has to splash through those “charts” of wordy Ishihara plates, whether it’s Epic or Cerner or Meditech, I see the slop. So much extra slop. Great post, and a good reminder: it doesn’t have to be this way.

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@apoorplayer ++

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Presented without comment:

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@jabel Wow, great essay! (And great visual reading on that site.) And, if I may be so bold as to say, it’s a perfect manifesto for you. I listened to it (love that option) on the way home tonight and it even includes an interaction with Siri not included in the written essay.

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@bbowman Haha. Love it

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Threshold

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@jabel !!! “The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goes, encounters only himself.” — Arendt

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Evermore true

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@isaacgreene Yeah. Fascinating to think about the gap between “preliterate/oral culture” and literate, and also the gap between literate and… whatever we are — the Nicholas Carr “someone has been tinkering with my brain and now I don’t read 2 gewd” culture.

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@jabel ++

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@dwalbert Good to know, thanks. I’ll check it out. Haven’t read any Harrington for a while, but that sounds better what I had been reading from her

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@canneddragons Yes! It’s wonderful

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@KyleEssary I am also glad I don’t live in Abilene anymore. Full stop. 🤓

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@manton What a human-stupid, but perfectly fitting, line: “That land, it wasn’t good for anything.”

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So, how would a preliterate person attain such deep biblical literacy in a way that a literate person today, even a person of faith, typically can’t?

I suspect the conventional answer would be something like, “they were more religious than we are.” Which isn’t wrong, per se, but also doesn’t identify a specific mechanism. Instead, let’s go back to the idea of names-as-mnemonic-devices and reframe the question this way: what if a preliterate person could remember Psalm 22, and in fact vast quantities of scripture, precisely because they couldn’t read? Because memorization, or being “off-book,” was the...

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@drwalt Ha. That actually sounds fun to me. But I think the vibe they’re going for is not Hardee’s but, uh, the front porch 🤓

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@joshuapsteele I was listening to a chat today and a related (if not more important?) question/phrasing came up: Do I/you/we allow people to change?

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@ericmwalk Botanical Gardens. Perfect day for it!

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@JohnBrady I have a hard time with Sebastion Maniscalco, but my sister loves him, and this bit on doorbells is one of her favorites. Also reminds me: When my wife and I first started reading Winnie the Pooh, she looked up one day and asked “Is it pathetic that I’m really jealous of their little friend group?” I was reading Pooh 20 minutes ago and I’m still really jealous.

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I take back my fandom. 📚

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I quit reading A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, round about page 100. At first, I thought “Perhaps I’ll set it aside and come back another time.” But the more I think about it, the more I doubt it.

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At one point, in the most memorable line of those hundred pages, Fermor...

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@ReaderJohn To be sure — notwithstanding my extreme dislike of his Gaza-Israel coverage, among a few other issues — I enjoy his witty snark, which I don’t entirely desire to “rise above.” (Even Jesus himself was not too holy for good snark appropriately directed, and Williamson is almost always appropriately directed.) But I also have to admit that he rarely offers much else.

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@ReaderJohn Your “morose thoughts” reminded me of my favorite Dispatch line this week, following a discussion of the Dems Autopsy Report That Wasn’t):

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Kevin: “But until [the Democrats] figure out what they actually believe, what their principles are, what their real values are, and how to use those to serve the constituents they actually have available to them, they’re not going to figure this stuff out. And the Republicans are the luckiest bunch of SOBs in the world because any other normal political party would kick the crap out of the current Republicans who are just useless as tits on a hog.”

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Steve: “Yes, well, tits on a hog is a good way to end that discussion.”

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@Miraz Yes! Absolutely

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@Miraz !!! — “efficient” has become one of my least favorite words, always disguising much more than revealing

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@markstoneman “soaring, roaring, oblivious” — Oof

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Presented without comment:

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@jabel <3

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You mean why are there utensils in the book drawer?

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Jack-dog has had a longstanding, cartoonish obsession with cats. We once sat outdoors at a winery in Jacksonville, OR where a cat slept on the steps and, for the better part of two hours, Jack did not blink. The cat rested; Jack stared with unwavering attention.

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Well, he finally got his wish. But it was not...

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@ReaderJohn If you’re interested, Poertry Unbound did an episode on that poem. And I second the Mandelstam rec. (Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoirs are highly recommended)

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Ordinary unplanned utterances • “What is that? Is that a booger on your face? Come here. Give me that. Is that your booger or your brother’s booger?”

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(We’ll never know.)

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January ‘26 • When was the last time you smelled — you just had to smell, couldn’t resist smelling — some morning sunshine on a wall?

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Kitchen Chalk Talk • Fuller context here, plus a poem to the same effect.

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Go pray outside

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“This is what free costs”:

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You have been on this page for 60 seconds. You scrolled 73% of the way down. You never left this tab. We would have noticed if you had. Your finger moved 181 times. You tapped 7 times. You paused once for 34 seconds — longer than anywhere else. We were not counting. We were always counting.

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For a long time I rocked the same bumper sticker on whatever car I was driving — Yaris, Tacoma, Yaris again, Focus, Crosstrek. And I just noticed one on the back of the ol’ bike rack.

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And a little fitting that I’ve been reading Auden’s “O Where Are You Going?” lately. If you ever see this bumper around town,...

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Presented without comment:

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Wisdom from Willington • When life offers you popsicles, stop what you were doing, sit down and eat popsicles.

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Who’s the real heretic? — On L. M. Sacasas’ “AI as Christian Heresy” and a follow-up on a comment made over a year ago.

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Taking a break from “workin’ things”

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Will Manidis:

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I do think the AI thing is the single greatest jump ball of meaning that we’ve ever had. The questions of how then do we live and how do we conduct ourselves are incredibly consequential over the next few years. And I just don’t think there are particularly good answers, secular answers to them that exist outside of religion.

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Got in the car this morning thinking Aside from the usual (and reliable) politics chatter, I haven’t heard a good podcast in a while, not one that actually gets your attention. Leave it to Demetri Kofinas to correct this.

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John Brehm’s poem “Over the Moon” — quite lovely. And I love love love that a poem about rain can have that title. (You’ll see.) And it made me think of Vasiliki Anastasiou and the Amalgamation Choir’s incredible performance of Ksenitia tou Erota.

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Conversations overheard from the kitchen

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Meghan: Whatcha doin’, Monk?

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Will: I’m just not.

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M: You’re just not? You’re just not what?

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W: I’m just not poopin’..

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A poem for Theo

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