A year ago I went back to Kyiv on my own.

The country had taken a hold of me.

I couldn’t just leave and forget it.

So I started this newsletter, The Counteroffensive.

I wanted to keep reporting on an invasion which has left a terrible mark on millions of people.

My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in Nature Microbiology #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s4156…

Today’s Poem: Fides, Spes open.substack.com/pub/poemsancie…

Lucy S. R. Austen John Wilson Just saw this the first volume in a series of four!

From the The New York Times, 'Why Do We Age?' Lead me to the vomitorium.

The greatest. I was 5 when he died.

The most offensive thing about this is the abuse of the English language. Only a very particular kind of education leads to such unmeaning verbiage; in that kind of education, such unmeaning verbiage is almost the highest virtue.

Fun fact, I was in the process of knitting this sweater for my boyfriend when we were breaking up and then my friend Marco who I waited tables with, and who was always watching out for me, decided it should belong to him instead. And so it did.

Next week on the Great Books Podcast, with special guest star Mick Brown:

BurlHorniachek Yes. For instance, Charlotte Mason's educational philosophy. (Mind you, CM would have seen her approach as 'progressive,' and why shouldn't a conservative also be genuinely progressive anyway?)

New arrival from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s, On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, ed. Andrew Blauner.

'Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds' officially launches April 29th. You can order simply by clicking on this link.

Blessed are the merciful who retweet and help my fourth full-length collection bring rhyme, meter, and the sacred back into poetry.
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nysun.com/article/floren…

Interesting framing:
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A particularly fascinating interview, both for what is explicitly said and what is inadvertently revealed about our moment. Must read this book:
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You want to know how much history is thrown away?

Let’s look at what was almost lost by NASA: 1,470 two-inch lunar tapes found at an old McDonald’s restaurant.

YES YOU HEARD ME🚀.

Almost lost forever.

Link: kcra.com/article/rogue-…

The new issue of The Lamp on the rack at Politics and Prose