: photo challenge day 28: community
: Astronomy Photo: Dumbbell Nebula
: photo challenge day 27: surprise
: I would be their eucharist “You could have a small fire at night. Maybe find a cave. A mountain stream. I’d have a canteen for …
: Finished reading: Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 📚
: photo challenge day 26: critter
: photo challenge day 25: spine
: photo challenge day 24: light
: Finished reading: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 📚
: photo challenge day 23: dreamy
: Photo challenge day 22: blue
: Photo challenge day 21: mountain
: The Summit of Mount Everest When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over …
: photo challenge day 18: birthday
: photo challenge day 18: mood
: photo challenge day 17: transcendence
: Finished reading: Village in the Sky by Jack McDevitt 📚
: photo challenge day 16: flâneur
: Photo challenge day 15: small
: Finished reading: Exhalation by Ted Chiang 📚
: Photo challenge day 14: cactus
: photo challenge day 13: page
: photo challenge day 12: magic
: Photo challenge day 10: train
: Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
: Photo challenge day 7: well-being
: Photo challenge day 6: windy
: Photo challenge day 5: serene
: Photo challenge day 4: foliage
: Finished reading: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown 📚
: Q found this in one of my Calvin and Hobbes books. I would have cut it out from the Dallas Morning …
: Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
: Finished reading: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 📚
: Finished reading: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 📚
: This is just to say I will listen for you I will hear all the words In the world All the delicious ineffable effable …
: Finished reading: The Underworld by Susan Casey 📚
: Recent trip to Chicago for Internet2
: Love that dog Love that dog (Inspired by Walter Dean Myers) By Jack Love that dog, like a bird loves to fly I said …
: Finished reading: Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds 📚
: Winter night sky after today’s snow
: My morning walk in the woods
: Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
: The last few days at Holy Hill
: Year in books for 2023 Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.
: Currently reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚
: My App Defaults Mail Client: mail.app Mail Server: iCloud with custom domain Notes: Craft.do and Apple Notes To-Do: …
: about Hello — my name is Jefferson Burson and I am a technologist and generally curious human living in …
: Currently reading: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 📚
: Finished reading: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 📚
: Currently reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
: projects selenography Harvard University Enterprise Architecture Town of Harvard Climate Initiative
: Finished reading: Rubicon by Tom Holland 📚
: Currently reading: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 📚
: Fermat So I pay close attention, and note every detail. From the beginning I knew my destination, and I …
: Finished reading: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 📚
: Currently reading: Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey 📚
: I recently re-discovered a John Denver tribute album that was compiled by Mark Kozalek (of the Red …
: Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
: Finished reading: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait 📚
: Currently reading: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 📚
: Hades to Persephone Go now, Persephone, to your dark-robed mother, go, and feel kindly in your heart towards me: be not …
: Currently reading: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait 📚
: Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
: Day 11: Retrospect (Prague 2005)
: Day 3: precious Day 3: precious
: Currently reading: Number 9 dream by David Mitchell 📚
: The Wave Returns to the Ocean Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts …
: Self, which sometimes calls itself Perception Rain hisses like swinging snakes and gutters gurgle. Orito watches a vein pulsating in Yayoi’s …
: Francis of Assisi - All Creatures of our God and King All creatures of our God and King Lift up your voice and with us sing, Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou …
: The Aleph I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the …
: Slowness “In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of …
: Maps and Mazes Once there were brook trout in the streams of the mountains. You could see them standing in the …
: The Breath of God The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see …
: Be with those who help your being Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold …
: A House Made of Time That there was such a house in the world, lit and open and empty, became a story in those days; …
: Currently reading: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne 📚
: Currently reading: The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚
: Finished reading: The Blue Fox by Sjón 📚
: George Brown School of Engineering at Rice University
: Finished reading: Queen of Angels by Greg Bear 📚
: A great tree on the Rice campus today
: Currently reading: Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton 📚
: Currently reading: Queen of Angels by Greg Bear 📚
: Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 📚
: Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
: Finished reading: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 📚
: Finished reading: A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins 📚
: Currently reading: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 📚
: Currently reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 📚
: Finished reading: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton 📚
: Daily Alice Come from his burial, none knew where but she, Daily Alice came among them like daybreak, her tears …
: Finished reading: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚
: Currently reading: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton 📚
: Thank you On his wedding day, he and Daily Alice had gone among the guests seated on the grass, and many of …
: Currently reading: A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins 📚
: One Step The morning was huge, and went on in all directions before her, and blew coldly past her into the …
: Finished reading: Little, Big by John Crowley 📚
: Currently reading: Signs and Wonders by Philip Gulley 📚
: & There was a time when we did not form all words as now we do, in writing on a page. There was a time …
: Currently reading: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚
: Currently reading: Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov 📚
: Dream “I dream everyone in the world is asleep, dreaming. I dream frost patterns on a temple bell. I dream …
: This morning’s walk at Holy Hill 📷
: water “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people …
: DeCordova Museum 📷 DeCordova Museum 📷
: How sad the evening earth “How sad the evening earth! How mysterious the mists over the swamps! He who has wandered in these …
: Backyard in winter 📷 Backyard in winter
: Cool Showers Landsman, of course, is sorry, too. He has already apologized to her several times, alone and in the …
: Currently reading: Little, Big by John Crowley 📚
: This is a Possible Letter But this is a new chapter. The city is going back in time, readying itself to start again with its …
: Exhalation I hope that you were motivated by a desire for knowledge, a yearning to see what can arise from a …
: Recent walk in the moonlight 📷
: Cloudberry Jam “Where did I come from?” you asked. “Where’s my father?” “You don’t have one,” I said. “I made you …
: Two Moons No doubt about it: there were two moons. One was the moon that had always been there, and the other …
: Currently reading: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 📚
: Never to let her go I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old …
: Currently reading: Victory City by Salman Rushdie 📚
: Argumentum Ornithologicum I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not sure …
: Slant Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson 📚 💬
: Bear Hill Pond a day after the polar vortex 📷
: Yggdrasil “I know an ash, it is called Yggdrasil A hairy tree, moistened by a brilliant cloud. In the …
: Currently reading: Icelandic Folk Legends by Alda Sigmundsdóttir 📚
: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? … When the morning stars sang together, …
: This is how we roll during a polar vortex 📷
: Currently reading: Surrender by Ray Loriga 📚
: The Story of Your Life I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods’ worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, …
: Currently reading: Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 📚
: Let us dare … The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think….Let us dare to …
: How do you aim a volcano? “The population of Iceland is 1,000 times smaller than that of the United States. We do not hide …
: This is how it was There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it …
: Currently reading: The Little Book of the Hidden People by Alda Sigmundsdottir 📚
: First time on commuter rail since COVID 📷
: All the trees of the field shall clap their hands “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall …
: Currently reading: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 📚
: The Waves Yes, but suddenly one hears a clock tick, We who had been immersed in this world became aware of …
: These things are there These things are there. The garden and the tree The serpent at its root, the fruit of gold The woman …
: The smell of the aftermath In the morning, the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the aftermath, a green …
: 1Q84 He was suddenly aware of someone sitting beside him, holding his right hand. LIke a small creature …
: I've made my mind a sunless space Lonni: And what do you sacrifice? Luthen: Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at …