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