Notes from Around
Despite a sinus headache, several readings on a Great Books program, literature, adulthood, love, and time prompted reflection on contemporary and classical perspectives.
Currently reading: Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
I’d intended to give Sayers a rest for a while, but the ebook was $0.99 at Bookshop
Usually, storm drains are built into the ground, but due to the landscape—at the wall (on the other side of which is the road that runs by my office) the slope goes sharply down—this one was left exposed to the elements. The picture was taken from a walking trail, and every time I walk by I think about how even this mundane thing is not unlovely. The grey concrete is drab, but set beside the red of the bricks it seems less like a fact and almost more something chosen for contrast. The green ivy creeping up sets it firmly in the experiential, and even historical, world. If you said to me this were a relic of some older civilization, I might not blink at it.
I know there are good reasons we don’t, but I wish we had more infrastructure out in the open like this.
Finished reading: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart 📚
Currently reading: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 📚
The sky as I wait at cross country practice
Incipit
In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oficiis, I. 21. This is the first blog post. There always has to be at least one. (Does a blog exist if there are no posts?) I would really prefer to write as few “meta” posts as possible, but I suppose some explanation is in order. Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to accomplish the 100 Days to Offload challenge.