26 days until book 2️⃣

Light switch at Coventry Cathedral

the banana was once a perfect representation of phone shape. u could hold it up like "haha hello?" and make ur friends die laughing. but these times are behind us. phones r just rectangles now. we need a replacement food. i hereby nominate the ice cream sandwich

replace all the vowels in an animal with O. I’ll go first: chomponzoo

This tickled me for some reason.

Situations like Ever Given bring out the best in the bird site

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at just be. to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

These are so beautiful...and gosh the Australian experience of the pandemic is just so...different

I found Colbert’s answer deeply moving, and I’ve been thinking about it for days.

Susannah Black Roberts God and us: x.com/devonesawa/sta…

The view from Mt Urambi this evening

NIMBY ultra-orthodox Jews oppose a new light rail route in Jerusalem. So the municipality issues a pamphlet describing how the line will be useful in the messianic age, taking passengers directly to the rebuilt Temple—it will even have a dedicated car for sacrificial animals!

(Please RT if you like this one!) Colorized by me: Lawn tennis players probably in the Boston area, circa 1890. 🎾

Only people of a certain age will understand this.....

This year is not a #PrimeNumberYear. The last one was 2017. The next is 2027. I’ve lived through just 10 PNYs. If spared, I could enjoy 3 more. BUT: 2023 is a multiple of 7 whose digits also add up to 7. This is surprisingly rare. It last happened in 1330. The next is 2212.

"There have been times when, after long on my knees in a cold chancel, a stone has rolled from my mind, & I have looked in & seen the old questions lie folded & in a place by themselves, like the piled graveclothes of love's risen body." R. S. Thomas

Timothy Keller was a great inspiration to me in my most formative years of adult faith, and remains someone for whom I have steadfast admiration. He spoke constantly and beautifully of Christ and his grace. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…