On a British magistrate in colonial India:
“Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.”
~ E.M. Forster, A Passage To India
It seems we find many Americans with this same mindset.
James Parker, writes in the Atlantic on the Jefferson Bible, in which Thomas Jefferson carefully excised through razor blade, any references to Jesus’ supernatural deeds.
One of the casualties of the COVID-19 crisis this year was a Tennis show in May that was to be held at the Haw River Ballroom. Tennis, like many other bands, had to cancel their tour across the US. I’m assured by the ticket vendor that the show will still happen, in 2021, albeit at the spartan Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, instead of the lush ballroom in Saxapahaw. We will have to see if that comes to fruition.
This story about John McAfee’s early, heavily Native American appropriated social network Pow Wow, is pretty bananas.
I just downloaded a game on Apple Arcade called the Survivalists. I literally would have had no idea how to play this game (even with the little tutorial tips) without my 8-yr-old. He immediately picked up on the system and how to collect different elements and make things from them. He just started telling me how to play it, having never touched the game in his life. No doubt, playing games with similar mechanisms like Minecraft and Terraria prepared him, but it still amazed me. Within a short time of actually playing the game, he had an empire of monkeys doing his work for him as I tired myself hacking down trees with what looked like a piece of flint.
When Jesus healed sick people, he always said, “Your faith has made you whole.” He never said, “Your correct doctrine, your orthodoxy, your dogmatism have healed you.”
~ Richard Rohr, What the Mystics Know
Currently reading: The Pilgrim’s Compass by Paul H. Lang 📚. I just started, but I’m really identifying with the comparisons between early Christians and current Christians. Dr. Lang just started as the pastor of our church, and that makes me especially eager read the book.
Autumn in empire.
It’s that time of year again. The spooks are out.
📚 What the Mystics Know - Richard Rohr: This one is a bit more scattered than Rohr’s other books. It takes chunks of wisdom and divides them up throughout miniature chapters. They all have purpose, but you have to dig to find the ones that speak to you.
I thought Libby was a wonderful books app with a terrible selection. After looking at the NYC library, I realized that it is our county library that has the poor selection.
Thanks be to God that the president seems to be okay after contracting COVID, but I had sincerely hoped his brush with it would change his outlook, like Ebeneezer Scrooge after the visits from the spirits of Christmas.
It has been too long since I’ve listened to Hammock and their playlist of songs for sleep is a good way to get reacquainted.
In his piece for the Atlantic, The Invasion of the German Board Games, Jonathan Kay brings up an interesting bit about how history informed the board game movement.
I haven’t come across any App Clips in the wild yet, but M.G. Siegler seems really impressed by the functionality.
Really happy that my state has a COVID contact tracing app now in the form of SlowCOVIDNC. Really unhappy that I had to uninstall it because it killed my phone battery life.
I can’t wait to watch these NPR live streams featuring Moon Racer today!
🎵 Softer Still - Turtle Bay: This song and video aren’t new. I first heard the track while on a beach trip in 2018, when it showed up on my Apple New Music playlist. Maybe it was the sand between my toes, but it seemed just the right time to be listening to a song about escaping to an island paradise. However, the vinyl record was just released for the accompanying album, Nuances, so this seemed like a perfect video with which to close out this summer.
Covidtide Kylo Ren
“Brother-sister duo pegged for tax fraud that funded trampoline party in NC, feds say”
After seeing the headline, I skimmed through this article just to get to a line like this:
It wasn’t immediately clear in court filings what a deluxe trampoline party entails.
Today, one of my favorite teachers in high school died while at school (the same school my son would be going to if he was not doing remote learning).
Remembering my daughter Chloe with brownies and cake on what would have been her tenth birthday.
My wife and I have been married for almost 20 years. We still have a lot in common, but wildly disagree on the appropriateness of athleisure for night wear.
The remote working and learning has put me in a a situation where, on a Monday morning, I can witness my elementary school kid watching Snoop Dogg on The Price Is Right.
Not to sound like the teaser to a typical Medium article, but one of my favorite vinyl instagrammers sustained a serious brain injury in a bike accident a few months ago and has found herself happier than ever.
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