Of the Week | 10.11.24

Caravaggio, acedia in literature, Oktoberfest

Another Friday!

This week //

A social week. Saturday at the state’s biggest Oktoberfest, taking in the costumes, the 100(?!) dachshunds, the polka dancing, the overflowing beer. Sunday and Monday hanging out with family and grabbing dinner with a friend and procrastinating on packing. Tuesday through today in DC, packed with non-stop meetings, three happy hours with coworkers, and one laughter-packed evening in an Irish pub with four friends.

So — short links this week.

Enjoying + link love //

I spent a chunk of time Monday speed-reading through the final 100 pages of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man so that I didn’t have to bring it on my trip. I enjoyed this mini review in The Atlantic:

Rather than viewing the end of mankind as the end of the world, Shelley examines the extinction of humanity on an Earth that keeps on living… The Last Man seems to celebrate the notion of life itself as worthy, whatever form it takes.

Beautiful piece on Caravaggio by Teju Cole.

Acedia through literature, from

Reading Revisited

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Kirsten Sanders is always good at questioning assumptions, and this piece cracked open an underlying understanding of discipleship I had never considered.

Americans are bad at waiting and it affects everything.

Currently //

Reading: The Last Man by Mary Shelley, Stasiland by Anna Funder, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Watching: A Different Man, Legion (season 2)

Listening: Fontaines D.C.

Misc: Small Planes’ Colonnade

Looking ahead //

Closing out my final day of meetings in DC, then flying up to Boston for the weekend!