Just a reminder @bethanycoast.bsky.social has a whole album of bops about how every summer is the hottest summer ever and we can’t see stars anymore and the world remains agonizingly beautiful and worth loving. Might be good for a weekend playlist.

Talk of schism reminds me that my friend and I just published a chapter on ecumenism via pilgrimage, a print history piece looking at travel (real and imagined) to Walsingham. I don’t think it’s online but obviously we’d share a copy with anyone who is interested ✌️

SSPX sounds like an event sponsored by Redbull in 1996

A cool thing about our part of Ohio at the moment is you can get yourself into a creek and find a handful of baby toads.

People are all “who’s your favorite saint?” and there are so many, impossible to choose! 😇 But I think Boniface is easily my least favorite, if the cutting-down-Thor’s-oak story is true. 🌳

I can only presume the block was from St Boniface

hot dog seeks hydration

Sometimes it’s fine for books to go out of print 🐋 📚

Horseshoe crabs make the best patterns in the sand when they are mating. (📸s all from Massachusetts this spring.)

elevator pitch for my poetry 🫠

Still thinking about this piece, so touching and life-affirming. “As Kerr made his first rounds at the inpatient unit, he immediately noticed something striking: There were 10 beds filled on the floor, he told me, ‘and half the patients were somewhere else.’”

Spiritualists ca. 1850:

Air to Ground Message: I ALWAYS FORGET THAT Area: Liberal, KS, USA Type: Boeing 757-200 A: #a33ec960d75 F: #f95632b9a36

Important plant identification advice is to identify with the motivations and personality of each plant.

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Technically she’s been spotted the whole time.

My job is peach

This paragraph by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social , the author of the review, is GOLD

Not too late to find a rare specimen of plant your brother hasn’t seen yet this year 🎊

New episode of the Briny out wherever/whenever you get your podcasts. This is a fun one, about an old glass Pepsi bottle I found on the beach and what it can tell us about the future of the coastline thebriny.net/2026/06/23/n...

Happy Sophia Thoreau’s birthday to all who, like me, almost forgot to celebrate 🎉 📚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_...

It’s nice how my 13-yr-old leaves little affirmations for us around the house 💕

When you’ve had half a haircut and would like to be done now 🐶

I had a job in Italy in summer 2003. It was the worst heat I’d ever experienced… no ac. I was the healthiest I’ve ever been and I blacked out twice, once hitting my head on a stone floor. Many people died that summer. Now it’s much worse.

Rafael Romero Barros, Still life with oranges, 1863

Tim Dlugos

My current era of parenting is marked by almost constantly having a SpongeBob song stuck in my head and I feel like that should count towards my time in purgatory