Finished reading: Ravelstein by Saul Bellow 📚 Thoughts to come.
Finished reading: Ravelstein by Saul Bellow 📚 Thoughts to come.
I’m teaching Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic this fall, in which he contrasts the alienated industrial city with the humanity & beauty of medieval architecture. I’m seeking the echoes to be found among YouTube minimalists — the kind of spiritual transcendence sought in purging stuff. Recs please!
Currently reading: Ravelstein by Saul Bellow 📚
Bethel McGrew: “If people are unbothered by the fact that embryos in general are discarded all the time, whence the squeamishness at the proposal to focus on some embryos in particular? He does have a point.”
Have never found the internet less compelling than now.
My experience of dating, love, marriage, and sex is so profoundly outside what this story reports as normal that 1) it productively sharpens how I can talk with my teenagers about these subjects and 2) makes me more eager than ever to help them experience young adult communities where a countercultural vision at least gets a hearing: a salutary idea of life-with-limits, a sacred and sacramental relational ideal, and a hope for partnership that is sufficiently structured and settled so that it can turn freely outward, toward strong family and civic and political life.
July 22 = 30 years of marriage to this man. <3
Looking forward to Holly Lawford-Smith’s book taking the widest possible left-and-right survey of feminist history.
Our daughter had a great experience as part of CCPL’s Public Good Generation. Recommended for teenagers you know and love next year.