Early morning run to the airport to drop Anna, who is off for a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Sacramento, California. Proud of her, excited to watch our oldest child make her way in the world with a commitment to service and community.
David Remnick | Notes from the Underground
A very informative profile of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza. This paragraph toward the end was both masterful and astoundingly sad.
What was next? “We got our orders, and we are ready to fight and diminish Hamas and exterminate them wherever they are,” Hiram said. “Exterminate,” in reference to a small territory crowded with civilians who had nowhere to go, was as jolting as “Einsatzgruppen.”
I highly recommend reading the full piece, especially to understand the Einsatzgruppen reference.
An unexpected benefit of purchasing a turntable for the house last year is old records as gifts. My wife gave me U2’s Wide Awake in America (also Dylan and Elvis Costello) for Christmas. Yesterday Erin’s sister gave us Cat Stevens’s Tea for the Tillerman.
Beautiful evening for UNC men’s soccer vs Campbell University at Dorrance Field.
Getting my haircut in Durham today and a guy wearing a Cleveland Guardians shirt was standing nearby. Serendipity, as 28 years ago I was upstairs in Great Lakes Brewing Company for a rehearsal dinner. Erin and I were married the next day. We celebrate with dinner in Durham tonight.
When the rains lessened this morning, I walked down the soggy hill to check on the creek. On the way up I passed this box turtle. She will be eating worms for days to come.
Tropical storm Debby has been dumping rain on us since about 10 last night with most of the morning ahead sure to be the same. 🌧️
Colum McCann | 50 Years Ago, the World Trade Center Was Home to the Art Crime of the Century
His imaginative act catches in my throat and reveals a truth that is often obscured or degraded: that we can confront, and even triumph over, the seemingly impossible.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur paid tribute to Erin’s aunt, Peggy Murray of Sandusky, Ohio, on the floor of the House of Representative.
Ordered and received a Raspberry Pi 5. I want to try setting up Pi-hole to block ads across the home network. Realize I might be able to use the Pi 3 that’s been unused. A weekend project, perhaps, one way to push my limits and challenge my aging brain. Then maybe a NAS, too.
Took my daughter to see the Heavy Heavy at Cat’s Cradle. One of the best shows I’ve been to. They were so good.
I finally finished reading this excellent long feature by George Packer in the Atlantic: Phoenix Is a Vision of America’s Future. This is just one of his sentences that caught, and kept, my attention:
Our tolerance of inequality is bottomless, but sunshine and sprawl have a way of hiding it.
A note to myself to look into why my Textpattern blog only shows the headline after I publish a post from MarsEdit; I have to go into Textpattern to hit the update button for the body to show up on zuiker.com. Too tired now after writing a long post to figure it out. Maybe tonight.
Loaded up a friend’s truck with the remaining lumber (milled in 2019) and we drove it an hour north to Wild Edge Woodcraft in Rougemont, where Avery will load it into the kiln for a final 2 weeks of drying. Then, I’ll be a step closer to my Long Table project.
Big rains = turtle sightings. This male Eastern Box Turtle was in the gravel road as I drove the recycling bins to the street. He has been through trauma. Amazing that he survived.
Fantastic night at UNC’s Kenan Stadium for the Manchester City vs Celtic FC match. Celtic victorious 4-3.
Celtic up over ManCity 1-0 after 14 minutes! A beautiful evening in Chapel Hillll, North Carolina.
Family is getting excited about the Manchester City vs. Celtic match tonight in Chapel Hill, even with the rumbling thunder in the area. I’m thankful the FC Series and top teams come to us each summer (last year was Chelsea-Wrexham).
Took Oliver to meet his cousin at the Manchester City pop-up store in Chapel Hill. He was jazzed to have his dad buy an expensive shirt that he then got signed by Oscar Bobb. We’re all excited about the ManCity vs. Celtic match on Tuesday. (Last year’s Chelsea-Wrexham match was fun; I went solo.)
Friday at 5 is what I call “Solsbury o’clock” - I play Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill each week in this hour. I play it loud. I dance around. I feel happy. Today is the birthday of my good friend, a college pal and best man at my wedding and the one who inspired my love of this song.