John Kelly continues to stay ahead of record pace on the AT. He’s over 1500 miles in now: youtu.be/um25bh-sTwk?...

“I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky.” -Camus

Walking children to school is a real gift.

as Ann Pachet of @parnassusbooks.bsky.social wrote this is “a manual for decency and kindness.” Very much needed. Father Strobel is missed.

“Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop.” - William Stafford

Hoping to attend a lot more in person readings like this one by David Dark at Landmark Booksellers.

Wallpaper at my new favorite coffeeshop - Mr. Art’s Coffee. Finding unique third places is really important.

Ran this little loop most mornings in 2023. Going to be revisiting it a lot in 2024 hopefully.

My younger brother’s dissertation book is out from LSU Press: Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider’s Appeal. lsupress.org/978080718155...

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” -Simone Weil

Pretty stoked waiting to hear Claire Keegan speak at Belmont University.

Favorite student costume today.

“[Sabbath] is not about legalism and legislation, but about joy and the things that grow only in time.”

- Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest (pg. 30).