Got to survey a local cemetery with a bunch of my excellent students yesterday. Love my job. #foxserveday2023

‘When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.’ —CS Lewis

Just submitted The Wyld Awakens to the Aurora contest! Wish me luck. ;) Realm Makers faithandfantasyalliancellc.regfox.com/aurora-contest…

Dr Johnson spent nine years writing the first proper English dictionary. It had 140,871 definitions, and some of them were... interesting: Trolmydames — Of this word I know not the meaning. Monsieur — A term of reproach for a Frenchman. Lunch — As much food as one’s hand can

The C.S. Lewis Initiative presents The Inaugural Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference on September 5–8, 2024. Join us for this multi-day event showcasing lesser-known scholarship on Lewis. Early bird registration is now open. We can’t wait to see you here! georgefox.edu/cs-lewis-initi…

“To seek first the Kingdom of God, we need to see the flourishing of all things as our governing principle, since within the Great Economy lies every single thing.” Ben Giudice on civil engineering as creation care. bit.ly/3u0KUC0

A labor of love, this essay was born over a year ago. Grateful it is finally able to swim free.

In which I recommend essays by Garth Brown, @calebsmith203, Sydney Page, Ben Giudice, Civil Eats, Janet Wilson, nat is on bluesky now, and others.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions. Wendell Berry

“Writing is a combination of two skills: the ability to use words and create with words. A writer is a craftsman and a designer. My father felt the urge to create. Another man might have made things with his hands; he made things with his imagination.”~C.R.Milne #create

Only by recovering "a broader conception of the human person" can the liberal arts move beyond the impasse between "Truth U" and "Social Justice U." "Neither telos—truth or justice—is coherent apart from this broader conception." Joseph Clair christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/novemb…

Miyazaki Hayao’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is No. 1 at the Box Office, a First for the Japanese Anime Master japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/news-services/…

Van Gogh on Work: “Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” (Van Gogh, The Sower, 1888) #ArtWednesday #VanGogh

This was fun. Thanks @MillerJayD for asking me to do it.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners. - Hayao Miyazaki, born #OTD in 1941

Ash Wednesday: Valentines Day:

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.

Sunset over Vancouver Island, from San Juan Island. Haro Straight.

From a bricklayer’s manual found at my grandfather’s house

I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.