Χριστός ἀνέστη!
Barn, exterior. Blind Grade Road, Garfield County, WA.
“Canal Street Cross-Section”, by Alan Wolfson. More pictures of this fascinating little project here.
Peola Road, Asotin County, Washington.
Primitive road, Asotin County, WA.
Potlatch paper mill, Lewiston, Idaho.
Beneath Joso Trestle
Joso Trestle, Union Pacific Railroad, Lyons Ferry, WA.
“Childhood is plenty commercialized before we do anything to help train a new generation of consumers to be as greedy, materialistic, and self-centered as we adults are. Instead of supporting free play in the fresh air, or role-play that comes anywhere near teaching empathy or compassion, KidZania teaches children the importance of the next paycheck. It’s incredible that they can get it all so wrong. After all, it’s child’s play.”
Bill Moyers interviews David Simon, creator of The Wire →
I was gonna post this as a quote, but the whole thing is one of the most riveting things I’ve read in awhile.
your monkey called: Q: How many Cormac McCarthies does it take to change a light bulb? →
A: Two or perhaps three, approaching now, from beyond the tree in the long low light of morning. From some black place: a reckoning neither required nor bidden, a reckoning no judge could have ordered, but a reckoning nonetheless. One of the men carries a single glove, ready to grip the hot,…
“It is a sufficient proof that we are not an essentially democratic state that we are always wondering what we shall do with the poor. If we were democrats, we should be wondering what the poor will do with us. With us the governing class is always saying to itself, ‘What laws shall we make?’ In a purely democratic state it would be always saying, ‘What laws can we obey?’”
Storms are taller than mountains.
Closeup of snow-covered field.
Ponderosa
Filling up What is Lacking →
Peter Leithart in Credenda. This is, more or less, his Ash Wednesday homily. Theology needs to be terrifying and brilliant like this.
Cumulus clouds like that mean Winter has given up the ghost on the Palouse.
