Thursday 7/9/26 The only kind of internet headline I'm vulnerable to--that is, one that will almost automatically get me to click on the article--is that pertaining to health; specifically, what might be my health, especially if the topic is about something you can control. I know the answer now and have for a long time, but if I didn't and I saw a headline, "Best teas for heart health," that will get me to go to the article. Almost everything is hack-y, indistinguishable low
Wednesday 7/8/26 Yesterday was a day of weather relief. One of those good worker days. It rained mostly throughout the day, from early in the morning on through to the night, with temperatures in the upper sixties and lower seventies. Took away a lot of that residual heat that boxes itself in in summer and sticks around. A solid citizen of a weather day. I felt like thanking the weather (shades of the narrator in M.R. James's The Five Jars saying, "Good growth to you," after
Tuesday 7/7/26 There's a kind of nuts in sports which can be very good that is different than nuts in life which is usually not so good. The position where one is most apt to be nuts in this good manner is as a goalie in hockey. This typically gives the skilled goalie an extra edge. Ken Dryden could be nuts--the intellectual version. Billy Smith was nuts. Battlin' Billy. Grant Fuhr was nuts in that he could give up 0 or 6 goals and it was the same to him. Which meant that whe
Tuesday 7/8/26 The passive recalcitrance of Bartleby in Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," is like a pit of nullity over which the narrator hangs. The narrator may be the main character of the tale, which seems an apt word to me. "Tale" suggests something both parabolic and realistic. Those rare people of kindness--which is active and outwards--in today's world face a greater risk, a harder life, and less succor, for Bartelby is legion, not an isolated example. Viewing rec
