I realized that I have a public-facing dog: sarahendren.com/2023/11/2…
So far just opting out completely from Substack Notes, but I see they’re more and more foregrounded in the UI.
Curious if fellow profs have general wisdom about setting up a grad student as research assistant when you’re in the earliest stages of inquiry. How do you send them off to do good work when you’re not sure what you’re looking for? Looking for frameworks, meeting cadence advice, documentation help.
“Sometimes, ‘This’ll do’ is experienced not so much as ‘settling,’ but as the hard-won apprehension of a great transcendent truth.” www.the-hinternet.com/p/news-of…
Finally saw Master and Commander. What terrific storytelling. Peter Weir is the real deal.
I wrote about a radically imaginative partnership between artists and adults at a Scottish day center for the December issue of Harper’s. Intelligence, art, and encounters outside the logocentric ideal: harpers.org/archive/2…
I loved talking to Krista Tippett, after having her regularly in my head for a couple decades. onbeing.org/programs/…
Loyalty, the “limiting virtues,” and my newly discovered love for the voice memo mode of friendship: sarahendren.com/2023/11/1…
A fellow academic said to me recently, just offhand: I’m a professor, so of course I like answering questions. And I thought: that’s my worst fear. I’m a professor because I always want to be improving my capacity to *ask questions. Of people, of the world, in every way.
Ursula LeGuin on the weight of liberty, and a road trip with kids that set her dreaming: sarahendren.com/2023/11/1…
Rediscovered Blur’s Think Tank today. Like I forgot it ever existed, which is all but impossible in the network era. Time machine. What a great record.
One of our staples around the house is a berry compote—just frozen raspberries and frozen cherries dumped together and cooked down a bit. No sugar needed. We have it around all the time for oatmeal, French toast, dessert.
You’d think after all this time being encouraged, cajoled, now forced to use Outlook, I’d give in and accept it. And yet
I’m teaching Writing About the Built World next spring. I’d love to hear your favorites (criticism on architecture, design, or technology, with “criticism” very broadly defined): sarahendren.com/2023/11/0…
Triumph of the diagnostic? (At least) two opposing narratives on disability and freedom. Trying to get to some of the complexity in my field these days: sarahendren.substack.com/p/triumph…
One big engine of my work remains something like: Revenge-Love Songs from the “Physics for Poets” crowd
A wood shop, an architect, the history of machines, and the art of making one-armed tools. I have a short film in the making: sarahendren.com/2023/11/0…
Robertson Davies on charity as the last lesson: sarahendren.com/2023/10/3…
And I get to hear the Faure Requiem again this coming All Souls Day. A good week.
New Alice McDermott novel comes out tomorrow. Can’t wait.