: Won't You Join Me? In a world of increasing fragmentation, hostility, and disconnection, the paintings of Johannes …
: Vermeer, Learning to See, and the Moral Imagination I am moved to tears. I stand in front of a semi-circular balustrade. Before me hangs a small (21 ⅜” …
: Disenchantment and ReEnchantment What’s to love about an alienated existence on a dead planet? This question is part of a pervasive …
: On limits I’ve been reading Wendell Berry this week: The problem that ought to concern us first is the fairly …
: I learned a new word for a feeling that I’ve had for a long time: a Fine-Grained City. And I learned …
: Mike Sacasas on what we might gain and lose from LLMs: My contention, then, is that when we are …
: Currently restoring my wife’s grandmother’s pocket watch from 1889. I love how beautifully crafted …
: Robert Farrar Capon on peeling an orange: Peel an orange. Do it lovingly - in perfect quarters like …
: What a delight to find a review by Ali Holcomb of a book (The Supper of the Lamb) that I was gifted …