Fig tree is showing some fruit! It’s grown like crazy this year - easily over 7’ as of today. I expect most of it will die back in the winter but it really seems to like the location. This is a Brown Turkey Fig, btw. 🌱
Took a small break from studying to dip into Emergence Vol 1 and devoured Winds of Awe and Fear by Nick Hunt:
All my journeys into wild winds began with names. I saw them on a map of Europe made unfamiliar by arrowed lines—swooping north, south, east and west, down rivers, through mountain ranges, over seas and national borders—depicting the seasonal corridors of these great unseen forces that shape the continent and its cultures, often in unexpected ways. The names had a fairy-tale quality—the Bora, the Foehn, the Sirocco, the Helm, the Mistral, the Levanter, the Meltemi, the Kosava, the Lodos, and dozens more—which suggested invisible roads to follow, connecting regions that seemed quite separate in my mind. I wanted to see the effects they had on the landscapes, and the living things, over which they blew.
It's wonderful stuff. I started Fred Bahnson's On The Road with Thomas Merton last night too, but am going to try to stretch that one out a bit.
Beautiful mild afternoon with low humidity here. Chipotle chicken on the grill for tacos. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
I am flexing some essay-writing muscles I haven’t had to use for 30+ years, and this as part of the admissions process. I still have the first reading assignments hovering before me.
We attended the first formal meeting last night in the diaconate formation program. It was great to meet the other men and their wives. Also got a chance to mingle with a class-in-progress and get some of their reflections and reactions. The next few years are going to be really, really interesting. Very excited.
Jumping spiders - new phone does pretty well with macro stuff
Amazing bit of music here: Voodoo Child on a clavinet with a whammy bar. As described! (h/t Metafilter).
We’ve welded together Loki and Lovecraft Country over here. Don’t try to change our minds, it’s too late.
Sunset cumulus, adjusted slightly
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Poolside reading
