: Holy Hill: The Lord’s Stone If you hike to the “top” of Holy Hill, you will find a carved granite slot that clearly used to hold …
: Holy Hill construction journals Harvard’s Holy Hill was cleared and built by the Shakers over the course of 1842 and 1843. …
: Holy Hill Every day, I start out the day hiking the trails near my house. I started the habit at the beginning …
: Finished reading: The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey 📚 4 stars
: Finished reading: The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller 📚 4 stars
: Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 Five stars
: Finished reading: The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville 📚 3 stars
: Finished reading: The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander 📚
: The Goddess of Gifts An instant of sharp pain before the numbness. The world was floods above and fire below. If there …
: First fire of the season in the wood stove!
: Finished reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚 3.5 stars. A good book, but …
: Finished reading: The White Mountains by John Christopher 📚
: Someone else’s house I live as if in someone else’s house A house that comes in dreams And in which I have died perhaps …
: Finished reading: Rose/House by Arkady Martine 📚 Three stars
: Finished reading: Grendel by John Gardner 📚 4 stars. Re-read for the first time since college.
: Where I Live A few months ago, I came across Circling Home by John Lane. The book described a personal project of …
: Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being …
: Finished reading: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 📚 4 stars. Always a pleasure to re-read.
: Finished reading: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 📚 3 stars. 4 stars if Vandermeer had taken a …
: Finished reading: Want by 📚 3 stars
: Finished reading: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚 3 stars
: A Better Poet than Swordsman tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate of Virconium, the Pastel City, who now dwelt quite …
: Finished reading: Breath by James Nestor 📚 4 stars
: Advocate He took the clay from the hand of the angel, and made Adam according to Our image and likeness, and …
: Finished reading: Greek Lessons by Han Kang 📚 5 stars. Just won the Nobel Prize for literature.
: Autumn scenes in Harvard, MA
: Finished reading: Black Holes by Professor Brian Cox 📚three stars
: World Line World Line Events are the atoms of experience. from Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the …
: Finished reading: The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho 📚
: Finished reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚
: Tonight’s aurora as seen from central MA
: Gideon the Ninth Gideon the Ninth In the myriadic year of our lord — the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the …
: ForeverNotes ForeverNotes This is a fairly cool/clever framework for working with Apple Notes: …
: Finished reading: Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer 📚 3 stars
: Finished reading: When Jesus Came to Harvard by Harvey Cox 📚
: Finished reading: Anathem by Neal Stephenson 📚
: The City and the City We are all philosophers here where I am, and we debate among many other things the question of where …
: Dead Astronauts Limitless, I came to a world where the moon lay so huge and ivory and cratered that it blotted out …
: blackswangreen blackswangreen The sequence of doors we passed made me think of all the rooms of my past and future. …
: Finished reading: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 📚 4 stars
: Smilla’s Sense of Snow Maybe it’s wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in …
: Amatka “A person creates the word. Gives in to the world, and becomes the word.” It sounded like a sigh. …
: Lots of mushrooms on the trails this morning
: Finished reading: The Secret Life of the Universe by Nathalie A. Cabrol 📚 4 stars
: Excerpt from Kraken INTO SLEEP’s BENTHOS AND DEEPER. A SLANDER THAT THE DEEPEST parts are lightless. There are moments …
: Resolution Resolution Tell us, they’ll say to me. So we will understand and be able to resolve things. They’ll …
: Finished reading: The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets by Thomas …
: Finished reading: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves 📚 4 stars. Much more interesting than the …
: Sunlight Sunlight The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the …
: Finished reading: The Allure of the Multiverse by Paul Halpern 📚 Four stars
: Our time is up Our time is up I think our time is up. I know. Hold my hand. Hold your hand? Yes. I want you to. All …
: You have never spoken before Before the humans came we didn’t speak so much because we were like this one, who years ago …
: we remain Loveliness and stillness clasped hands in the bedroom, and among the shrouded jugs and sheeted …
: Astronomy Photo: The Sun Sun My Observations: Taken: 21 July 2024 at 6:07 PM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: Three Dead Astronauts Three dead astronauts had fallen to Earth and been planted like tulips, buried to their rib cages, …
: Finished reading: The Laws of Connection by David Robson 📚 Three stars
: Finished reading: Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan 📚 Five stars!
: Finished reading: Shift by Hugh Howey 📚 Four stars!
: Finished reading: Natural Magic by Renée Bergland 📚 3 stars
: Finished reading: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers 📚 3 stars
: Finished reading: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds 📚 Five stars!
: Finished reading: Savor by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚 Five stars.
: Finished reading: The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚 Five stars
: Finished reading: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall 📚 Four stars
: Finished reading: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 📚 Three stars
: I just realized that my “To Read” list has 310 books on it. I think I might have a problem!
: Finished reading: After 1177 B.C. by Eric Cline 📚 Three stars
: Astronomy Photo: M101 Pinwheel Galaxy My observation: Taken: 1 June 2024 at 10:57 PM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: Astronomy Photo: M51 Whirlpool Galaxy My Observation: Taken: 1 June 2024 at 10:45 PM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: Astronomy Photo: M63 Sunflower Galaxy My Observation: Taken: 1 June 2024 at 11:02 PM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: Finished reading: Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton 📚 Three stars
: 4000 year old Babylonian recipes: I loved everything about this. The video, the fact that these …
: Astronomy Photo: Moon My observation: Taken: 20 May 2024 at 9:36pm EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General Information: …
: Finished reading: Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle 📚 Four stars
: Finished reading: The Magicians by Lev Grossman 📚 Four stars
: Beautiful night sky in MA with the solar storm!
: Astronomy Photo: M13 Hercules Globular Cluster My observation: Taken: 4 May 2024 at 1:51AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General Information: …
: Astronomy Photo: M82 Cigar Galaxy My Observation: Taken: 4 May 2024 at 2:18 AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General Information: …
: Astronomy Photo: Sombrero Galaxy My observation: Taken: 4 May 2024 at 2:03AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General Information: …
: Photo challenge bonus 2: unputdownable
: Photo challenge bonus 1: bubble
: photo challenge day 30: hometown
: Finished reading: The Amen Effect by Sharon Brous 📚 Five stars
: photo challenge day 29: drift
: Astronomy Photo: M56 My Observation: Taken: 27 April 2024 at 1:34AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: Astronomy Photo: Ring Nebula My Observation: Taken: 27 April 2024 at 1:28AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: photo challenge day 28: community
: Astronomy Photo: Dumbbell Nebula My Observation: Taken: 27 April 2024 at 1:37AM EST Equipment: Unistellar Equinox2 General …
: 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 …