new ep is up! David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers on Caitrin Keiper's wonderful sprawling essay on elephant life and society and the philosophical questions surrounding them. Plus a new segment 'there should be a german word for this' and a big announcement about the pod verybadwizards.com/episode/episod…

Truly hard to overstate how wonderful our local public libraries, which we use constantly, are.

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I wrote about reading Saroyan, the beauty and sparseness of his prose, and the things I admire about his idea of what it means to be a writer.

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“They made space for the women who felt that the zoo metaphor described their lives and for the ones who did not want to entertain the idea that they are animals.” Ashley Lucas
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I have met many people working in prisons who feel like this dead-end government job is their only option even though they hate spending all day in prison...Prisons have a way of profoundly harming everyone who spends much time inside them. Ashley Lucas plough.com/en/topics/just…

and this by Ben Crosby ⚓️ 🦆 is also superb: on christian forgiveness and its continuing foolishness to the world, even the liberationist left plough.com/en/topics/life…

Very proud to have written this obit

My Mind, My Enemy

'I still find it hard to describe the experience of mental illness, of having a psyche you cannot control.'

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This piece, by Sarah Clarkson (daughter of Sally), is well worth reading. I was deeply moved by her book “This Beautiful Truth” which explores more deeply her journey with mental illness. I’m grateful for her deep faith and beautiful reflections.

“South Head, a Wild Surmise” by #StephenEdgar :

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it's very simple: i see a new M.M.Townsend piece, i read it. you should too plough.com/en/topics/life…

wrote for @plough about the creative 'no' of hating, the aesthetic pleasure of having enemies, the Psalms, and of course, Friedrich Nietzsche: plough.com/en/topics/life…

4yo: 'Mommy, I know how to make husbands.'

Oh yeah? How's that?

'You take some water, stir it into a girl, drink it up, and then she has a husband!'

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.Jennifer Banks's spectacular book *Natality* considers Hannah Arendt's idea that humans “are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
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This is incredible. I love ⁦@phil_christman⁩ plough.com/en/topics/just…

'This pastor had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand she asses, and a ten-thousand-person auditorium, and much gyms. He had also seven sons and three daughters, for unto him was a smokin’-hot wife named Cyndi.' @phil_christman
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“Our daughter and her classmates are becoming accustomed to stresses that I cannot accept as part of being human.” Abraham Nussbaum

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