Yum!

"If I were a pie," she asked herself, "what sort of pie might I be?"

I have read it, and did enjoy it a lot. Currently I'm listening to the audio of "Night Circus", by Erin Morgenstern, reading "Tolkien and the Great War", by John Garth in a book, and reading "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers on my Kindle.

I have a habit of reading several books at once

And I didn't realize you were so near me. Glad you're safe!

It's always who he talked to last

There's rich enough to buy a comfy chair, and then rich enough to buy a yacht with lots of comfy chairs. Naval navel-gazing pomposity, as it were

What they seem to miss is that environmental catastrophe affects them and their loved ones too

#karma

To be clear, that sort of nonsense is not restricted to the rich, the old, the white, or men. But it does seem that in my life I've known a preponderance of people described by that phrase who fit that description

And your comment from a fellow Tolkienista has me thinking that hobbits would really like it, because mushrooms

#hobbits #mushrooms #whatsCoffeePrecious

Not sure how "prophecy I" slipped in there. Maybe it's prophetic?

Faith ecosystem? Private equity funding? AI governance?
I seem to be having trouble recalling any of that in the teaching of Jesus, or the writings of Isaiah or Paul.

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him."

Meanwhile, I get email from Meta recruiters, asking if I'd like to work there. Did Kafka write about Facebook?