Happy autumn!
This week //
I have the cutest nephews in the world, and any week I get to spend time with them is a great week. Is there anything better than sitting next to a baby and watching their skeptical expression turn into a grin? (Rhetorical question, obviously not)
Enjoying + link love //
Have you ever heard something a million times but not absorbed it until someone says it in a different way? This piece by Keith Lowery did that for me:
The thing about having been made is that you necessarily, then, have a maker. That means that none of us can ever be ultimately self-defining. The purpose of things that are made is inescapably bound up with the will of the one who made it. The one who made us is necessarily the only possible source of answers regarding what we are for.
Related — KMG looks at two kinds of freedom through the characters in The Brothers Karamazov (this piece and the one above have me very excited to crack into Plough’s new issue on freedom).
…But before I start Plough, I’m working through the new Comment issue on decline. Loved this piece on hope in the face of apocalypse.
Henry Oliver argues why we should all read classic books.
I’ve been listening to moody music lately to fit the rain, and this triphop mix is a great addition to the rotation.
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: Challengers, The 400 Blows, La Chimera, Paris, Texas
Listening: Cautionary Tales of Youth by Låpsley, In Rainbows by Radiohead
Misc: americanos made with Nespresso’s Chiaro
Looking ahead //
We’re in the middle of our third hurricane/storm system of the month, so I’m once again staying indoors (on the same weekend as the return of the Great British Bake-Off? Fortuitous timing).