Christian Wiman on poetry against despair
suffering can suddenly catalyze an intimacy that ordinary life would have prohibited
Today I learned that http://httpforever.com in Firefox could fix the inability to connect to captive wifi portals on my Linux machine (whilst travelling)
On the Humans and Heroes podcast: The Diego Maradona story.
… the essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying that human urge so many of us feel - to not just live year by year but to capture a bit of that life….
Currently reading: Crafting The Personal Essay by Dinty W. Moore 📚
“His name is Joel Matip, he comes from Africa”.. In which Joel Matip, arguably one of Liverpool’s best ever free transfers, retires
Currently reading: Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Keith Miller 📚
The story behind the Panenka
Having just listened to Alan Noble and Rebecca McLaughlin talk depression through the lens of Christianity, I now want to read On Getting Out of Bed by Alan Noble 📚
The price for compliance from the three year old having spent two days alone without outside company for the first time…
Fascinating read on the decline/demise of search at Google and the folk who have failed upwards behind it.
#SlowReading: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 📚. I probably should re-read We Have No Idea right after this.
Writing as Thinking is a paradigm I feel like I have stumbled on intuitively and am glad to see touched upon elsewhere, including in academia
To the three year old, the past is yesterday, every other thing is today.. a fantastically reductive way of thinking about time.. but then I might be biased 🤗
The data on extreme human aging is rotten .Saul Justin Newman
Adieu to the man who in many ways defined my coming of age Football world cup.. So much so that every kid in our daily kickbouts sought to be named for him, Schillaci
