A belated Happy New Year to all … the Wolf Supermoon in update Connecticut tonight!
03.01.2026 00:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A belated Happy New Year to all … the Wolf Supermoon in update Connecticut tonight!
03.01.2026 00:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My companion for coffee on the porch this morning …
02.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As much as it pains (slightly) this old Princetonian to say it, I'm proud of @harvard.edu and grateful for their leadership. Here's hoping that courage is contagious.
18.04.2025 03:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I regret nothing.
24.01.2025 20:24 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The beauty of celebrating New Year’s Eve on the west coast is that you can be in bed before 10pm.
The boy seems suspicious …
Just returning from an outing with the family to see Wicked on the big screen. A question for all my early Christian history peeps ... is it just me, or is this a totally Gnostic storyline?
Or is it still the tryptophan tripping me up?
Oh, what a fond reminder of things that kept us sane during the early days of Covid! We should do this again (minus the pandemicy bits) ...
28.11.2024 01:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some time has passed, but I still cherish the insightful conversation I had with @gsclemons.bsky.social about the fascinating 'mission' of book collectors.
#rarebooks #collecting #bookhistory #libraries #aldusmanutius #bookcollectors
Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine to drink, and old friends to love. Happy Thanksgiving to one and all …
27.11.2024 04:52 — 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you need to whittle away an hour or so this weekend, here's one from the SSP (Selfishly Self Promoting) files ... my talk from last summer at Rare Book School entitled De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books.
No cats, but a lot of old books.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1MD...
PSA ... we've upgraded the security system in the home library ...
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This is a remarkable exhibition, and an even more remarkable story. At the Morgan Library through May 4, 2025.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/a...
TIL that two of my very favorite book people are going to talk to each other and let the rest of us listen. Pull up a chair and listen with me ...
16.12.2023 23:57 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0