Beginning with studies of electromagnetism, scientists have come to understand reality in such a way that there really is no such thing as tiny bits of matter that exist independently and that cannot be divided. Atomism (in any traditional sense) is dead. Reality is not what we thought it was.
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Tolkien’s Other Stories (Book Recommendation)
If you have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or maybe even the Silmarillion, it might be time to explore some of these or other of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories.
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On Thompson Pond
Whenever I went for a walk around the pond I would stop at the bridge for a while and look at this tree ... Each time that I returned it would show me something new. Each time I would bring my memory of the place with me, and each time I would leave with my vision slightly refined.
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The Sky, the Plough, and the Plaza
Articles by Garrison Keillor and Naomi Schaefer Riley, an interview with photographer Chris Arnade, and a video by Mike Olbinski that is sure to amaze.
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Quantum Mechanics, Contingency, and Freedom in Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom”
Sooner or later each of us confronts the question of what it means to be me. Who am I as an individual existing in this time and place, as part of this family and this people? This most basic question is thrown at each of us, and there is no predetermined script.
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The Education of Henry Adams (Book Recommendation)
The education he had received bore little relation to the education he needed. Speaking as an American of 1900, he had as yet no education at all. He knew not even where or how to begin.
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“Beyond the Next Ocean”
To gaze upon something well done and speak the truth about it becomes us, since we are ourselves formed in God’s image.
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On Primitive Photography, Primary School and Other Matters
Wonder from the World Wide Web
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The Beauty of Excellence: Rethinking Student Motivation
The beauty of excellence provides us not only a vision of greatness but also a vision for greatness: greatness in a particular skill, greatness of the human spirit, greatness of human achievement, and greatness in our own lives.
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Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and Flannery O’Connor
Quentin Tarentino’s film “Pulp Fiction” and Flannery O’Connor’s stories smell of nihilism. But at the end of the film, and at the end of O’Connor’s stories, the light of Providence glimmers tantalizingly. So there was a meaning after all! But it was not the meaning I was expecting.
