What a Victorian Novel Teaches Us about Friendship and Civil Order
America has a crisis of friendship
Attending to Plants, People, and Place
My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t
It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone
But there still remains room for us to read books in community today
Cleaning an Empty Home
There is not a lot of time for sentimentality when you’re in the final week of madly preparing to list your empty, but very much “lived-in,” house
Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?
Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
Tolkien, Philosopher of War
Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.
Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored...
There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.
It Wouldn’t Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle
anyone sharing my Germanic inclinations—pecca fortitor!—is likely to embark upon the challenge.
Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go
After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden