Major props to my employer, Craft Education. They have given us cyclists (three of us so far) a parking room. I get to “park” my bike just around the corner from my desk, right by the elevator. Not dealing with the bike rack has been great!
Cycling to work has been great, but I do often wonder if any of our city leaders have ever tried to cycle in our city.
Case in point: After decades, our only cycle and pedestrian bridge dumps you off directly onto the street where you are left to hope that a tourist actually lets you cross. (They almost never do.)
Then, you sneak across the symphony where you are left to cross another street where no one yields.
Then you sneak across a park. The park is sometimes closed, so you have to cross through the front drive of a hotel.
Then and only then are you back on an unprotected bike lane.
Happy Lord’s Day! — Go to Mass! ❤️ ⛪️
““Sabbath rest is not just a nothing, a not-doing, but a something that requires creating.” And what he creates is rest itself. The Sabbath is thus for ceasing and feasting.”
How Shall We Then Rest? by Karl E. Johnson
When did all this “feels like” stuff start? It does not “feel like” 101. It feels like 86, in Tennessee, in August. I’m sure 86 might “feel” different on a beach or in the desert, but how is that relevant to the forecast?
“The whole effort of “learning a language” is training one’s adaptive unconscious: helping it acquire the knowledge it needs and ensuring it gets enough practice to take over basic tasks.”
Learning to Learn a Language by Michael Ham
One whole year. A year ago, I wouldn’t have believed it. Never lifted a day in my life. – It turns out I enjoy it, it makes me feel better, and makes it where I am more helpful to others. So glad I took the leap and gave it a try!
“The fact that lettuce from one farm or one shredding facility could possibly have sickened thousands demonstrates the dangers of concentrating food production among a few large corporations.”
The Cyclospora Outbreak: An Everyone-Is-at-Fault System Failure: “LettuceGate” by Marion Nestle
“Lettuce producers have known about the Cyclospora hazard for more than a decade. They have not acted, and neither has the government.”
The Cyclospora Outbreak: An Everyone-Is-at-Fault System Failure: “LettuceGate” by Marion Nestle
“If you find some cool, relatively unspoiled or undiscovered place, please keep it to yourself. We locals have places that we know that are still relatively secret and we’d like to keep at least a few that way. So don’t post about it, and don’t tell anyone. Just enjoy the peace and quiet.”
How to Not Be an Entitled, Snobbish Vacationer: The Boiling Pot of Tourist Towns Part 2 by Luke Allen
“Like maybe this tourist industry we all thought was benefitting us for so long isn’t actually such a good deal anymore.”
The Boiling Pot of Tourist Towns: Pt. 1, the Frog’s Perspective by Luke Allen
“There is actually no reason that we can’t have a community that continues to function as a tourist destination but ensures a good quality of life to its year-round residents, and a sense of community and belonging as well. This is what we want. We want to be welcoming to tourists. We love showing off our towns and region, I know I do. We’re proud of all the beauty and joy our area offers, we want to share it. We just don’t want to lose it.”
The Boiling Pot of Tourist Towns: Pt. 1, the Frog’s Perspective by Luke Allen
If you live in Nashville and cycle at all, please complete this survey. The new dividers are a game-changer. We need them everywhere! www.surveymonkey.com/r/Downtow…
“More fundamentally, I think we need to accept that being desynchronized isn’t bad. Stepping out of time isn’t going to hurt us or our families.”
The Pace of Daily Life Is Unbearable by newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
“We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.”
Why Reading Matters by Study Hacks
“For us, fidelity means standing honestly in that memory: testing all things by Holy Scripture and the Church’s historic witness, refusing to let a tidy theory displace theological truth.”
Thomas Cranmer and the Shape of the Reformation by Rev. David Straw
What a great interview! — 466 - Malcolm Guite - Old Stories Know Secrets That We Have Forgotten — The Symbolic World
Yesterday, 100% of my trips (morning coffee meeting, work, and dinner) were done by bike. The worst part? Cars. — Cycling is so lovely. I hope someday we have better infrastructure and limit the places cars can bring their noise, heat, and smells.
Totally makes sense. My Twitter account, however, will remain deleted. — Manton Reece - Reevaluating the Twitter / X API
“When stable institutions and common spaces weaken, individuals retreat into private life or conform to mass society. The result is not simply personal alienation but the collapse of the public realm necessary for human plurality and agency.”
Flourishing 4.0: Four Cultural Movements in the Search for Meaning, Justice, Happiness, and Well-Being by Margaret Diddams
“flourishing is not merely a psychological state or a social condition, but the wholeness of a person created and redeemed by God.”
Flourishing 4.0: Four Cultural Movements in the Search for Meaning, Justice, Happiness, and Well-Being by Margaret Diddams
“Our love matters. Love has direct implications on our politics and our lives. And when our witness does not display God’s love for our neighbors, we should not be surprised when people wonder about the truths of Scripture.”
Deconstructing for Lack of Love by newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
“the more atomized we are, the weaker our institutions are and the fewer of them we belong to, the more susceptible we are to propaganda and the pressure of the Worldly Powers.”
On Worldly Powers and Looming Totalitarianism by newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
That was an intense game! Norway should be proud. They played hard!