Thanks to Alan Jacobs for this wisdom about sifting the words and testing the spirits.

another bluebird

I love this poem.

Eastern bluebirds in flight

Bald Eagle seen on a walk yesterday evening

[I]n sum, Dreher has produced a historically reductive, relationally tribal, intellectually superficial, and profoundly self-absorbed work that actually performs what it protests.

Greg Thompson, in an extraodinary review/repudiation

Man’s real work is to look at the things of the world and to love them for what they are. That is, after all, what God does, and man was not made in God’s image for nothing.

-Robert Farrar Capon

It was recently brought to my attention that an album I played drums on in college (rock band situation), is currently listed on Amazon at $902.81. Might not be worth it.

There were sights to behold on our walk around the city today.

A while back I gave up on Evernote and have since been using the native Notes app on Mac and iOS. Totally meets my needs.