I need to write a Letter to a Young Woman Engineer Who’s Ambivalent About Her Standing in the Field post. It’s not the message you’re thinking of.

RIP artist Rebecca Horn. Her mysterious “prosthetic” sculptures and performances were so important to me early on. I wrote about Finger Gloves for Art in America a couple of years ago.

Rebecca Horn in the 1970s stands in a spare studio room with her "finger gloves" of long metal rake-like spikes scraping the walls.

Anne Snyder is a visionary thinker, writer, convener, and this conversation gets at some of her earned insight. Recommended.

Cambridge celebrities: Saw Jill Lepore this morning. She was post workout, headphones in, so I decided not to fangirl. But so tempted!

We all went up to Halibut Point yesterday. Glorious.

From behind, my family walks the monumental rocks at Halibut Point, ocean stretching out beyond.

I hit pre-order so fast for my friend Chad Holley’s debut novel, coming out in November!

This analysis from Bethel McGrew on party politics and abortion is genuinely great: razor-sharp, unusually attentive, erudite.

Good heavens, I loved this conversation with Vinson Cunningham on Know Your Enemy.

Good day. My book was the campus read for Stevens Institute of Technology, and I gave the convocation address. Students were absolutely delightful, river view incredible.

First day of high school for all three — the only year they’ll all be together again. 💔

Long ago, when I was getting almost-a-phd in history, an advisor told me that I had the inconvenient problem of being interested in absolutely everything. Never a truer thing said.

This conversation with Fordham president Tania Tetlow is great.

LOVED this conversation on Genesis between Marilynne Robinson and Miroslav Volf.

A beautiful thing to see Ted Gioia’s report on live music ticket sales just booming, including at the jazz club around the corner from my building! substack.com/home/post…

I gathered my higher ed posts into an excerpted new newsletter: Unmuddling the University.

I wrote the last in my series on thinking through higher ed. I’ll also summarize it in a newsletter, but here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

I wrote about how people who work in “special needs” assistance have skills that are orthogonal to credentials and training: sarahendren.com/2024/08/2…

Thrilled that I have (late to the party) discovered Dumbify and similar apps.

above is free: sarahendren.com/2024/08/2…

I do love an elder statesman on a crowded city bus — the guy confidently barking move on back.