I may not be seeing aurora tonight since I don't live in Minnesota, but also I won't spend all February shoveling snow, so trade-offs.

Unreal!

Friend speaks my mind.

O Lord, make haste to help us.

Gyro

Farewell to one of the GOATs www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

“They simply sit in silence in 200-year-old wooden pews — and wait for a message from God to move through them until they speak.” This story features Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia. In DC, our benches are just 95 years old, but similarly hand carved, and similarly seeing a resurgence in use.

DOES THE HOT NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK NEED A MISTRESS AND CAN I BE HER?? I promise a very elegant and subdued scandal.

I come back to this one again and again: vegetarian chicken and dumplings! You can add some Quorn chicken cubes if you like, and make sure those dumplings get plenty of herbs!

Join me on BBC Radio Three at 9:45pm this Tuesday, as I take you on a journey to the cave of St Robert of Knaresborough, to explore if a place of faith such as this can ever, truly, be abandoned. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

does anybody know what time it is?

The immediate adaptation towards a "logic" that at it's core is: it's a person when I decide it's a person (i.e. 'therapy') and not when I decide it's not (i.e. a 'tool') is chilling. As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked... It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Kinda wish this book was a bit more informed by Quaker practice and a bit less by Trappist practice, but I took this pic outside an Episcopal cathedral so what do I know?

I think too much about liturgical Latin, which is one of the things that makes me a bad Quaker. On the liturgical calendar, today is All Souls Day, where the dead of the previous year are remembered. It’s also my second favorite observance (again, bad Quaker). 1/

This season I joined the Thomas Circle Singers! Here we are rehearsing Andrew Miller's setting of Blake's poem "The Lamb." Join us at our Christmas concert on December 6. Tix here: tickets.chorusconnection.com/tcsingers/ev...

Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action grounded in God’s truth. — New England Yearly Meeting #7

Loaded down the neighborhood kids with candy and served two different kinds of chili to some dear friends. Happy Halloween indeed!

What started as an explanation on the decline of air travel ended up as a summary of the elder millennial experience.

Everything before the comma shouldn't even exist as a phrase, and yet here we are.

O God, make speed to save us.

O Lord, open thou our lips.

Was honored to hear a wonderful talk by Brian this weekend! I feel like I have a lot of theological unpacking to do. :)

Had the rare joy of preaching this Sunday, looking at Prayer. Here's a little bit of what I said...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

California is just too far away. If I was meant to be in California, they wouldn’t have put it ALL the way over there.

"[...] This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. [...]” - Jorie Graham

This was a UK paper headline the day my father was born here in these United States. No wonder this is the faith I gravitated towards…

I hated childhood I hate adulthood And I love being alive —Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”

It’s rare for me to see this place in daylight.

Wifeception.

Went to evensong at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco because @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social climbed it and wrote about it, and he was not wrong about the soothing beauty of the space.

How much whey could a Waymo mow if a Waymo could mow whey?

At a fundraiser in San Francisco: PERSON: You look so nice! ME: Oh thanks so much! MY INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: It’s called being from the east coast, Mr. This is My Dress Hoodie.

Every Wednesday, I live in fear of the memes our intern comes up with for VIBE CHECK. She’s hilarious and diabolical. Anyway:

Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.

If you need a gosh darn piece of foam on a box to be “smart,” then you deserve to have to bricked every now and then.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

The cover of every elementary math text book in the 1990s:

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

So much of contemporary technology is about creating a shiny object in an attempt to replace pragmatic but affectively more challenging practices like Talking to Others and Externalizing Internal Desires.

Reconnecting with Quaker Queer History, part of my discussion this week with R.E. Martin and Jason A. Terry from their FJ article "Advices and Que[e]ries": www.friendsjournal.org/advices-and-...

show me somebody more ready to overthrow the government on a good day than a sixth-grade reading teacher, I dare you

they are going to figure out how to put a shawl collar cardigan on one of these things before Saturday and it is gonna be fucking lights out

I can think of no direr warning, myself

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

@jttnncdcmd.bsky.social Well then I have to get you back on pronto. I am growing my hair out and have been poofing it up more, though I see it was sadly a little flat that morning.