This blog is now a time capsule. I am no longer updating it as such. Scroll your heart out. ⤵

Blogging with you this past decade has been a privilege and a pleasure; an experience for which I am truly grateful. Thank you.

From now on, I’ll be here.

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Quickly (for the final week of Nov., 2019): This piece on Zen Buddhism in Japan ca. WWII, and the sticky psychology of terrorism

Add: 聖物 The Sacred Object, Nobuo Sekine

Add: “The affection among young people for the word ‘energy,’ nearly always used with simulta-neous irony and sincerity, suggests a latent desire both to summon and to mock a mystical explanat-ion for the real.” –– Jia Tolentino

New shares (final week of July, 2019): 1. Add to your reading list: “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences,” by Jason Ā. Josephson Storm, and
2. “The Invention of Tradition,” Hobsbawm,
3. Ferrabosco, Psalm 103, 3. Love

Add: ?

Black Lives Matter