Sometimes I still mistake people for Paul Farmer on the street in Cambridge. 💔
I wrote about prototyping, design for fourth graders, and Hannah Arendt’s natality.
Finished reading: What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha 📚
Opening in ten days: the Victoria & Albert’s new Storehouse, a behind-the-scenes look at collections, curatorial and conservation processes, and more. Especially cool: you can Order an Object!
My boy in the first seat, right side, River Charles. We read The Boys in the Boat together, and then watched the movie. Let’s just say that was an instructive case of “adaptation.”
The first of my two lectures on the virtues of dependence is up at For Your Consideration. This invitation got me to finally make some early sense of changing my mind in big ways starting ~4 years ago. Expansionist design, Alisdair MacIntyre, selective abortion, animality, faith, hope, Love.
Good news for Simple Machine: We were chosen as a Best Documentary in this festival, won the Audience Award for Documentary Short in this one, and I got nominated for Best First-Time Director in another.
The Ignatius Study Bible has a synopsis of salvation history that is as beautiful as it is concise. A few short pages lay out the epic themes of the whole text. If there’s someone you know who wants the big basic story — what is Christianity about? — I can scan and send it to you.
Thanks to @dorsalstream@mastodon.cloud for referring me to Madame Vo in NYC. I bought the cookbook; now trying my hand at habitual home cooking my favorite food.
Another day, another white-hot post from Phil Christman that makes me think I really should just give up writing. He’s so good.
My friend Alexandra Lange has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism!
So many good things to think about in this conversation with Nathan Hatch about his book on leadership. If only there were more like him! I’ll have some lengthier things to say soon.
Got to hear Skylark Ensemble singing Rachmaninoff Vespers at my parish tonight! I’ll be subscribing. Just sublime.
“In a garden, expertise was personal and anecdotal — it was allegorical — it was ancient — it had been handed down; one felt that gardeners across the generations were united in a kind of… sarahendren.com/2025/05/0…
Last night’s screening at IFF Boston was such a joy. Filmmaker portraits on the staff bulletin board.
a call for like-minded teachers
Should I… initiate a affinity group of professors who are both against AI in the classroom and also, crucially, willing to create and defend the formative guardrails and pedagogical moves to design around its use? We need more than strongheaded exhortations in syllabi, and we need more than handwringing complaints that students won’t read. It’s still unclear whether GenAI will be world-changing across many industries. But even if it’s underwhelming in total, it can eat the entire educational enterprise in the near term, at generational expense.
…and Muir Woods shifts the inner clock like nothing else.
Got to visit with the many fine people at Creative Growth in Oakland yesterday. A life-giving salve to headlines of all kinds.
