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27 objects across the archive
- 2026-10-07Hope, Not Optimismloved this piece. "Hope is a method: If I do something about this situation, I might change it enough so that I can do something else about this situation."web note
- 2026-08-28matthew novenson & friends on paulMatthew Novenson's Paul and Judaism at the End of History, read chapter by chapter, against the objections six readers would raise and against what Paul's own letters say.folio
- 2026-08-27hopeBut this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.trail
- 2026-08-26and therefore i have hoperecall yesterday's reflections on hope... this morning: lamentations 3.21 26 (NRSVue) But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; thefragment
- 2026-08-26Training a small language model on the KJVi decided to train & use a small language model from scratch to learn how the process actually works. i worked with a slew of frontier & open models to both build it and explain it so i could grasp it. and then we documefolio
- 2026-08-25the god of hopethis morning, part of my reading was from romans 15, which contains much to reflect on. 15.13 caught my attention: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the pfragment
- 2026-08-14Ordinary Abundancei loved this site. the perspective it brought was a tall drink of cold water to a soul living through what must certainly be purgatory.web note
- 2026-08-11toledotYou are strongest when the street gives you a structure first and a human rhyme second. This picture points toward sharper editing at the edges, not a different way of seeing.photo
- 2026-08-11batter my heart, three-person'd godBatter my heart, three person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp'd townfragment
- 2026-07-18let there be lightRight now you are strongest when color does the organizing. This frame shows it — patient, graphic, unafraid of black — and points toward tighter edge decisions as the next level.photo
- 2026-07-14paul within judaismmatthew novenson is so sensible. i find his work confirming, clarifying, illuminating.podcast
- 2026-07-04KokoThis is Micah alone at the piano — a solo reading of "Koko" taken at breakneck velocity, closer to Bud Powell's ghost than to any comfortable swing pocket. There is no band here to converse with; the whole drama is between his two hands, the right unspooling relentless chromatic lines while the left interrupts, anchors, and finally lets go. Listen for how dry he keeps it — almost no pedal for two minutes — so that every needle-sharp note stands alone until the very end.music
- 2026-07-01bird in barcelonaAll nine models land in the same country: a competent pigeon portrait carried by hard side light catching the iridescent neck, with technical scores clustered tight at 7–8 and artistic ratings quietly held between 5 and 7. The clearest divergence is Gemini, which alone drops artistic to 5 and reads the frame as "clinical," penalizing the high micro-contrast where Maverick, GLM-5V, and Qwen see enough to award a 7. Read together, that spread tells you the truth of the frame — everyone agrees the light does the work, and no one is willing to call it more than good.photo
- 2026-06-29rowan williamsthese are all pieces from rowan williams, to whom i owe so muchfolio
- 2026-06-28rowan williams: passions of the soulpodcast
- 2026-06-28tolle, legeThe Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches. In Passions of the Soul, Rowan Williams opens up the great classics of Eastern Christian writing to show how it can help us to understand abook
- 2026-06-27central parkThis is a clean, technically competent wildlife portrait that stands out because of the beautiful water ripples. Shifting away from a central composition would elevate it from a pleasant record into a stronger graphic study.photo
- 2026-06-27mosques & cathedralsThe photographer understands how to use light and symmetry to create depth, but needs to tighten composition to remove distractions. The image is close to a keeper, but the lamp keeps it from landing.photo
- 2026-06-27rowan williams: being christianIn this simple, beautifully written book Rowan Williams explores four essential components of the Christian life: baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer. Despite huge differences in Christian thinking and practice both tobook
- 2026-06-27the alhambraA technically competent architectural frame that uses a strong diagonal to escape the typical tourist-snapshot format, though it suffers from typical ultra-wide distortion at the edges.photo
- 2026-06-27reading the bibleso perfectly putquote
- 2026-06-27do nothing. do not stop the script.this is really how it went downchit-chat
- 2026-06-27wisdomoofquote
- 2026-06-26a street in sevilleThis frame shows a strong grasp of architectural geometry and deep perspective, though it is slightly held back by corner distractions. It points toward a solid capability in classic street photography once edge discipline is fully integrated.photo
- 2026-06-26aii wrote a fair bit of prolog code back in the early '90s, in grad school. ai was a thing, but it was an arcane thing, constrained in concept and by hardware. we did not then realize that attention was all we needed. but fragment
- 2026-06-26liberal christian optimismyou've got to read the pieceweb note
- 2026-06-25earliest memoriesi was watching an old home video of my parents the other day. we recorded it in early 1996 when jeanne & i visited them in madras. jeanne asked my mother what her earliest memory was, and my mother said: i was a little yfragment