Buenos Aires is nice.

Beautiful day in Zeeland.

A reminder of the ordinary grandeur of European train stations.

Amsterdam espresso number one from Morning Owl ☕️

Thinking about my dad on what would’ve been his 93rd birthday. He'd never admit it, but he loved celebrating his birthday—in part because he rarely met a dessert or a coffee he didn't like. I miss you and love you every day, dad.

Tim clearly wrote that letter himself. Every word of it.

Buttermilk biscuit and eggs with chives from the garden after church. A lovely Sunday morning.

Thinking constantly, of course, about my dad and our day together at Augusta in 2022 ❤️

Whitecaps won. Tigers won. There are seven players within two strokes of the lead at Augusta. What a day of sports.

Masters Sunday: One of the great sports days on the annual calendar ⛳️

Thanks be to God.

Ah Eastertide, lovely in newness, fresh in mercy, generous in potential.

A “great consumer product” is, by definition, profitable—not just popular. The syllogism here is pretty simple: Are the AI assistant apps profitable? No. Are AI assistant apps therefore great consumer products? No.

50 years 

There is at least one person in nearly every church who knows the Bible vastly better than their pastor.

In honor of ⚾️ Opening Day: gileadsociety.com/post/8121937...

Happy Opening Day! ⚾️

‘Who Speaks for Us?’, a short new essay in @nybooks.com about the erosion of the two-party system and the peril of American democracy under the weight of Trump’s rule: gileadsociety.com/post/8111895...

I hope my Greek professor would be happy to know that I think of him fondly every time I read the Lillies of the Field passage (Matt 6:28) and remember his emphasis on its unique form in Greek (a prolepsis!).

Marilynne Robinson on ICE, Trump, and Minneapolis: gileadsociety.com/post/8105529... “Recently we saw soldiers gathered around a man they held prostrate. They beat him first. If Christ appears to us in this moment, he is not among the executioners.”

One down.

Sunday Roast at the Magdalen Arms.

My success rate for joining random queues in Oxford having no idea what’s at the end is 100% so far.

Starting a long flight journey from a smaller airport is so pleasant. Everyone is kind and patient, it’s uncrowded, and you can move at your own pace.

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Baseball is back! ⚾️

We still miss you, beautiful friend ❤️

From a personal report: “Don’t count him out—he’s working hard.”

I guess we know what @petchmo.bsky.social and @airlineflyer.net will be talking about on this week’s podcast.

(Billionaires are temporarily and specifically good when, and only when, they invest large amounts of their own money in precise alignment with my personal sporting interests.)

SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!

Regular reminder that you shouldn’t buy any products or services associated with Amazon and should immediately and permanently close your Amazon account.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Breezy Johnson! 🏅🇺🇸 #Olympics

Watching the biathlon. I don’t understand how the U.S. isn’t a guaranteed gold medal at the gun sports. #Olympics

That Chock and Bates free skate was jaw dropping. #Olympics

It’s all #Olympics coverage here for the next two and a half weeks 🏅

He deserves every dollar of it ⚾️

Have stood in the same spot as the people under the right wing and can confirm: This airplane is enormous.

I mean, just look at this art, adorning the altar on Communion Sunday: “In the shelter of each other we will live.”

We have friends everywhere.

RIP Catherine O'Hara. Damn.

Rejected subtitle of this post: Country with functioning cultural ministry invites normal person to give national lecture.

Targeted advertising is getting way too accurate. Might as well just automatically deduct money from our checking account and send us the tickets with a note saying, “You were already going to go to this so we saved you a click.”

ICU nurses are especially wonderful. When dad was in the ICU shortly before he died, his nurses did everything—and more—to care for him medically and make sure he was properly clean and comfortable. One nurse even gently shaved his face so he’d look like his normal self. Fabulous people. Heroes.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Another civilian murdered by LEOs. Calling this horror we’re all watching outrageous and disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Brutal cold winter storm outside and I’ve had to work the entire weekend, but I like my job very much and we have a warm house with good food and coffee and the snow on the window is pretty. So I’m stopping to remember that I have so much to be thankful for.

Closing out the work week with a 12-hour call, and [voice offstage] it’s Saturday Well

@libraryephemera.bsky.social Happy birthday! 🥳