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I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:

  1. The Books of 2025

    Not all of the books of the year, but an overview of the ones that stuck out.

  2. The Books of 2025

    Not all of the books of the year, but an overview of the ones that stuck out.

  3. On “Black and Female: Essays” by Tsitsi Dangarembga

    An important book in my personal journey; with topics of #feminism, #antiRacism, and #decolonization; and receipts on the atrocities the aforementioned address.

  4. On an Inner Library

    Walking through the mental geography of what I’ve read along with the serendipity of exploration.

  5. Dynamic Org-Mode Block to List Books Read

    An #Emacs function defining an #OrgMode dynamic block so that I can easily insert a list of books I’ve finished reading within a given month.

  6. Claire North’s “Ithaca”

    A brief meditation on a just finished book.

  7. On “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke

    A reflection on a book that I feel connected to something deep within me. One that I found very accessible and enjoyable for its unfolding mystery and reverence.

  8. Living and Being through Meditating, Playing, and Reading

    Thankful for a fantastic day with friends, a good game, and a good book. A day that spilled over into the next.

  9. Re: Read «What We See When We Read»

    A reflection on blogs and books read, letters sent, and the accretion of words.

  10. William Blake, Socrates, and the Leviathan

    Teasing at those moments of concurrent reading, and reflecting on a life and how to live it.

  11. Approaching an/the Untimely Question

    A weekend of reading, including “Open Socrates” by Agnes Callard.

  12. “When No Thing Works” by Norma Kawelokū Wong

    A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse

  13. Reading Through a Hard to Read Chapter

    Reflecting on a literary situation presented by Haruki Murakami; and on the often tacit agreements between author and reader.

  14. A Dream of a Memory of a Dream

    Exhuming a draft from a winter’s dream; recalling a place I’ve journeyed to on a few occassions.

  15. “The Book of Merlyn” by T.H. White

    Sharing a passage and bit of reflection to the coda of T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King.”

  16. Reorganizing My RSS Feed Reading

    Revisiting a wise and reflective post by Tracy Durnell; and from there better managing how I engage with my feed reading.

  17. A Pilgrim at the Library

    An ongoing reflection of #books that have stayed with me. In which #libraries are spaces for reflection and rest; themselves housing a mixture of memories. All triggered by a quest for a “Little Known” essay and touching again a book I once had checked out and read.

  18. Twenty Books that Have Stayed With Me

    The end of the year draws neigh and folks are gathering their lists. And this posts lists 20 #Books that have stuck with me and a bit of commentary; which is against the guidelines of the prompt. But hey, why not reflect a bit on those books.

  19. Reflecting on "Weavers and Deceivers" by Kris Swank

    Reflecting on an academic paper discussing Le Guin’s spiders and how reading that paper rekindled memories of an Apocalypse World session.

  20. Easy Living and Delayed Gratification

    The compounding joy and resiliency of serendipity paired with slowing down and eschewing easy living.

  21. Auto-Exporting My Book "Shopping List" as Part of Org Capture

    The ongoing refinement of my Bibliography in #Emacs’s #OrgMode. And a reflection on the #Serendipity of perusing book shop shelfs.

  22. Reflecting on Listening to My Ancestors

    Delving into my ancestry seeking wisdom and a sense of place. I also recognize that my ancestor’s seeking of whiteness drained the vibrancy of colors from our histories.

  23. The Marks of Isolation

    Reflecting on bell hooks’s imploring us to interrogate our hearts.

  24. “Spear” by Nicola Griffith

    A delightful queer book that adds to Arthurian legend.

  25. An Evening Reading Documentation Leads to Discovery

    I explored the Ripgrep package for Emacs, which lead to learning about persisted and named searches exposed in the package’s menu.

  26. Setting Aside Reading “Quicksilver”

    Shaking my head at a lazy two word description of a likely backdrop character. And from there setting aside the book, recognizing that there are so very many books I want to read and that available time to read is my constraint.

  27. On Blogging and Online Neighborhoods

    This post draws attention to the idea that blogging is like a neighborhood community. I also walk through a few other neighborhoods that I “live in”: Discord, Email, Mastodon, and Blogs. Then talk about the durability of Blogs and RSS.

  28. Developing Campaign Questions: Using History and Fiction to Frame How One Might Make Sense of That Which Wasn’t There

    I look at the books I’m reading, so that I might inform my campaign approach. And from there frame the tenants of Law and Chaos. The campaign philosophy and underlying questions to explore. And the singular framing of a heresy that creates space for the myriad of potential directions that random tables could take.

  29. “Jhereg” by Steven Brust

    Loved this Quick and Flavorful Heist

  30. Beren and Luthien of the Silmarillion

    Finally Have I Emboldened Myself

  31. Tangents that Cling to Memory

    Avoid Focusing on a Singular Path and Leave Room to Wonder

  32. Recent Readings and Serendipitous Pairings

    Pairing “Three Rings” and “Ghostways”

  33. “The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe

    A Complex Dream-like Journey and Transformation Story

  34. Reading and Reflecting on “I'm Still Here” by Austin Channing Brown
  35. “Bread and Freedom” by Albert Camus

    “Freedom is made up especially of duties” – Albert Camus

  36. Free Time During a Pandemic: Three Weeks Later

    Writing Software, Retelling Folktales, Reading Camus and Leiber

  37. Seeking Inspiration

    Finding inspiration in “The Silk Road” and “DCC RPG Annual”

  38. Free Time During a Pandemic

    I’m playing “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”, contributing to Samvera, reading Italo Calvino’s “Italian Folktales”, journaling, and playing “Lost Ship” by W.M. Akers.

  39. Books I Read (or Started to Read) in 2019

    In 2019, I completed reading twenty-two books. This feels inadequate.

  40. Books in Progress and Recently Finished

    I have found that I enjoy reading 3 or 4 books concurrently. As one raps up, I dive back to another, then pick up a replacement. In this way, threads of thinking intertwine and commingle.
    Right now I have six books in progress, two teetering on abandonment, and six recently completed (and four academic papers).

  41. “Ode to a Nightengale” by John Keats
  42. A Hearty “No Thank You” to Interstitial Cut Scenes in Novels
  43. “The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time” by David L. Ulin

    A review of David L. Ulin’s “The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time.”
    Resistance? Reading? Books? Lost Art? Sign me up for this reminder to make time to read and reflect.

  44. “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk

    As I read “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”, the narrator (and author) pulled me into their pastoral world shaped by the narrator’s own eccentricities. Living in near isolation during the winter months in a small mountain village, the narrator describes her routines and astrological-based conjectures on murders now plaguing the village. She also talks of William Blake, teaching children, and a conspiracy that the animals are rising up against people.

  45. Reading Challenges