Easter Lambs
Susan went down to the barn at sunset on Easter to feed and found these two with their mother. Late in the season, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless.
Marginalia, no.183 | The New Psalmanazar
Already he had begun dreaming of a refined Thebaid, a desert hermitage equipped with all modern conveniences, a snugly heated ark on dry land in which he might take refuge from the incessant deluge of human stupidity.
~ J.K. Huysmans, A Rebours
A snugly heated ark might be tempting if I wasn’t sure to bring every species of folly into it with me. Like Noah, I’d spend all my time washing shit off the deck. Anyway, it’s stupidity that I can’t seem to do without. It’s comfortable and familiar. Human intelligence and earnestness are more frightening.
As a trial lawyer I make my living by sweeping up the wreckage of human folly. It does get wearisome at times, but the older I get, the more I realize that my own bag of folly is big enough that I should be a little more forgiving towards the follies of others. Though contra the remarks from the cited blog, a little more intelligence and earnestness now and then would make for a pleasant change.
Religious but Not Spiritual
Spiritual tourism offers the benefits of wisdom derived from those who submit to authority and discipline and tradition without having to do so oneself.
Gregory Wolfe, Image Journal Editorial "Religious but not Spiritual"
Trees
In tribute to Alan Jacobs' website here are two tree photgraphs from my achive. The first is an ancient oak outside of Charleston, South Carolina and the second shows the fall foliage in the treeline next to the house.
G O S P E L O F T H E T R E E S
A new web site by essayist, Auden scholar and Wheaton professor Alan Jacobs. Lots of leafy goodness with apt quotations to go with the photographs.
