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Finished reading: Hearty Masculinity: Of Body and Spirit by Chris Halverson 📚

If your first reaction to a book written for men about masculinity is an eye roll or worse, I’d urge you to look at Hearty Masculinity, which brings together a constellation of tools, both conceptual and practical, to address masculinity in our time – especially distinct from the unhealthy directions offered by the “manosphere” and shallow influencer types. This is a different kind of book, though still taking seriously the yearnings of men in a surprisingly candid way.

Split in two, its first half can be read by anyone as a secular argument for holistic mental, physical, and social health. The argument gains direction and depth in the second, explicitly spiritual half. Many guys may recognize the traps revealed; in particular, the tendency towards stolen valor and ‘performative masculinity’ as a vocational crisis is insightful.

Disclosure: Chris is a good friend of mine.

Finished reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Finished reading: Jayber Crow: A Novel (Port William) by Wendell Berry 📚

A novelization of Martin Luther’s insight that we are not loved because we are good but rather good because we are loved.

Daring Fireball: America’s Decline Can Be Measured by the Names of Ballparks and Arenas

If the theory holds, the two years we had the 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre (2010–2012) may mark our nadir.

You know that feeling you get when a pop song hits that one part where three-part harmony comes in, and you feel like you’re suddenly flying 30,000 feet above the ground? Tiny Habits is like, what if we built the whole plane out of the black box?

Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚