Tag: What I’m Reading
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January 1, 2026 Merriam Webster’s word of the day is amortize. We have two definitions of this transitive verb: One, “to pay off (an obligation, such as a mortgage) gradually usually by periodic payments of principal and interest or by payments to a sinking fund.” At this juncture, I have no more amortizations of this…
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On the idea of “doom spending”: I’ve noticed that hobbies I used to enjoy, spectating sports, trading card games, video games, and just about anything else seen as a leisure activity have been destroyed by unreasonable men. Sports are now synonymous with gambling over every possible outcome on any given play. Trading card games are…
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Today I’m going back to looking at the Sublime app, and there were a couple things I wanted to talk about. One was about “feed bankruptcy.” Yeah, I used to love feeds, too, but there is just so much content to consume now that you’re never really able to “keep up” with all the sites…
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May 1st 2025 My card for today is fitting: Nine of Sea reversed I’ve gotten this before and it’s definitely on point. The Mystical Cats Tarot guidebook reads: “Do you believe you deserve happiness? Do you truly believe that the universe holds goodness and joy for you? The unwillingness to express your wishes and set…
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This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, and certainly the best on economics. I thought Morgan Housel’s book was good, but this one went so much deeper and more in depth about the real problems facing our world. And I agree with about 95 percent of what she says,…
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Anna of Wild Geese has a great video about personal curriculum. This is something I thought about doing but like Anna, if I give myself too strict of a plan, I’ll rebel against it. I love this “research as ceremony” as a way to reframe learning, getting away from “colonialist” and individualistic learning. Also it’s…
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I became intimately familiar with Whitney Hanson’s poetry recently, thanks to an Instagram reel I was shown by the Algorithm. I IMMEDIATELY pre-ordered her newest poetry book “the love of my life” and it arrived on the evening of its release day, July 7th, 2026. It showed up while I was taking a much needed…
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Skillet has a new song called “Scream.” It’s pretty good, which is not surprising because they are a great band. And they are CHRISTIANS (obviously, they are a Christian rock band.) … ODB reading today: Genesis 50:22-26 This passage is the very end of Genesis. In particular 50:25. “Then Joseph made the sons of Israel…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AUDRA! Today we’re celebrating the 25th birthday of the greatest cover artist of all time, Audra Miller, and also the 10th anniversary of her band First to Eleven. Here’s her “birthday cover” from this week: “FLORIDA!!!” by Taylor Swift and Florence the Machine. It features one of her besties Alexis Federici, who is…
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I was doing a lot of thinking about why I find certain women so attractive. It isn’t one thing, and while yes there are certain things I like – heart shaped faces, cute face framing hairstyles, and big expressive eyes – these are not any sort of requirement. I just want to find a girl…
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Bible Study with Loisa: When Anxiety & Loneliness Hit… the ASMR is top-notch too. She is only the world’s greatest ASMRtist after all <3 John 14:27 (NAS): “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor…
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“I am alive in a life that would have seemed almost impossible to explain to certain earlier versions of myself, and some part of me had apparently decided that 5 AM was the correct time to contemplate the distance between then and now.” – Emily Slatin, “Measuring the Distance Between Then and Now … I…
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This is the kind of amazing human being that Audra Miller is. This is why she should be a superstar and not just singing in a cover band. … I’m making a new Instagram account for the podcast/newsletter. It’s time. https://www.instagram.com/ameliadesertsong … I’m going to see MY QUEEN ELLA LANGLEY in Gilford NH later this…
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This poem by Sav Brown is absolute fire: how i make you feel is who i am – savannah brown … Preach, Anthony, preach! Seriously, this interview confused me in many places at the time it came out. And I have nothing against sombr (neither does Anthony) but what Taylor is saying is utter bullshit.…
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… Emily asked me to share this, so I did. Really important topic, actually: Being a Queer Girl Isn’t Something You Decide. AI needs to stay out of ripping off music! And music adjacent. And just content in general. We are all just training shit… Anthony Fantano, I totally agree with you. … Sav has…
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As familiar as I am with the concept of the Trumpet of the Swan I never actually read it before May 2023. The Library of Congress summary: Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. The book opens in…
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Concerning the viewing habits of one oddball Vermont citizen in the timespan that is regarded by the commonly adopted calendar as June the 9th, 2026. in defense of gathering by Anna Howard (Won’t let me embed. Fair enough, YouTube.) The ‘Wild Geese’ podcast just keeps getting better. Anna said something amazing. She has a theory of…
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I never finished reading this book and I don’t think I even have my copy anymore. But I feel these quotes are worth sharing for further perusal. On Absurdity: “… as Albert Camus observed, we humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.” I gave up…
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The book comes with high praise from Anna Howard from Wild Geese. It opens with a lot of praise, too. And that always makes me skeptical, how pushed this book is. But I already like that one of them used the term ‘relationshipping’ over networking. That is a good sign. The quote that opens the…
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If you missed part one… you can find it here at Barnes and Noble: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse You can find Volume 2 here on B&N: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse2 This is the second volume of my wife Emily Slatin’s autobiographical essay series. I’ll be taking notes on this book just like any other. I will return to cover part one…