Year: 2022

Bill Myers.LLove to see Frederick Wiseman picking out some Criterion videos. I almost said I want to be that sharp when I’m 92, but I guess I should first hope to make it to 92. I tell myself that when I’m 92 I’m gonna be dropping truth-bombs left and right, but (my...

John Baeder I I always have time for another story about why Stradivari violins sound so good. Tree of the year! And if you don’t know my coffee-table website Gospel of the Trees, here it is. Chiraag Shah on pseudo-iconoclasm: Compared to such acts of iconoclasm, the...

The abandoned village of Craco.Re: my entry last week on “forest bathing,” the Economist weighs in on a certain linguistic habit:When TED, a conference, staged several talks on the concept [of ikigai or “reason for being”], a tweet by a baffled Japanese observer went...

The American Kestrel, AKA Sparrowhawk. The English calligrapher Irene Wellington giving thanks for the gift of a turkey: One of the participants in my recent Laity Lodge retreat said that when she remembered the retreat she would think of vampires and donkeys –...

More here.AAn illustration by Sam Weber from a Folio Society edition of Frank Herbert’s Dune:See this 2017 story about the Folio Society’s design process.Norbert Wiener, from The Human Use of Human Beings:Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization....