Myth and Place are bound up in each other. A sense of Place comes by way of the material reality participating in something beyond it; communal history, shared ritual, vernacular techniques and craft, etc

From DBH’s Light of Tabor. Ignore my caveman annotations.

The 1930s truly was the golden age of sportswriting

Blessed Sunday of the Samaritan Woman!

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

average conversation with my girlfriend

whenever someone calls themselves “old stock” american i physically cringe

Blessed feast of Saint Porphyrius of Gaza! Despite martyrdoms and bombings the temple that bears his name still stands in Gaza

The problem with adult Catholic converts is that they all seem to think they’re St. Augustine and that they’ve arrived at Catholicism purely because they’re smarter than everyone else, which means Catholicism is whatever their brain tells them it is and not what the Church says it is.

we adopted our fosters but one of the poor pups got pneumonia :( we took him to the vet and he should be OK but i feel bad for him

everyone got plato for christmas but i got a slightly different dialogue

Decorative details from San Vitale in Ravenna

i work next to this used book store and it’s so hard not to spend all of my lunch breaks here (todays finds)

“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine

friend: Is she the one?

Plotinus: No but she emanates from it

warm christmas lights > cool christmas lights. there’s no reason for the blue in new string lights to be so overpowering

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.