Gardening update. Moby Dick. A tiny update on the children. New bike.
Welp. Our tomato crop is blighted or something. Maybe they got too much rain, or the aphids did more damage than I thought. In any event, half of them are now composting. The others look like they’re...
View ArticleA little more bike nerdiness. Ashrayaparavrtti.
Took the bike out for 25 miles this morning. This was formerly my long loop, but in the current training schedule I’ve set for myself, it turns out to be the shortest. I’ve set my sights on a century...
View ArticleMay, we hardly knew you
Are we really at the end of the month? It’s been a busy couple of weeks around here. Thus: We hosted a Memorial Day cookout thing with a five other homeschooling families for a grand total of...
View ArticleThe roofs of ages come rushing down
This made for some interesting reading the other day. Our circle of homeschooling friends here in town include a lovely Orthodox family, the husband of which is also an Orthodox priest who is...
View ArticleWith labor heated sore
Then came the iolly Sommer, being dight In a thin silken cassock coloured greene, That was vnlyned all, to be more light: And on his head a girlond well beseene He wore, from which as he had chauffed...
View ArticleSo there’s this cat…
On Friday, I rode my bike for 16 miles, cleaned up, ate breakfast and then headed out for an early morning appointment with a partner of ours and (hopefully) a new customer. It’s a good 40+ miles into...
View ArticleThe 100 most beautiful words in the English language…
...according to the folks at alphaDictionary (via kottke). I am pleased to see tintinnabulation, pyrrhic and dulcet included.
View ArticleThe beginning and end and midpoint of times
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. -...
View ArticleA more mystical concept of animals
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass...
View ArticleKevin Kelly: Why Technology Can’t Fulfill
At the beginning of this summer an Amish guy I met online rode his bicycle out to our home along the foggy Pacifica coast. Online, is of course, the last place you’d ever expect to meet an Amishman....
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