Tom Murphy

Today's ONE WORD from Friars Jack and Greg...

A red stencil painting on cemetery shows a short, bearded man in a cone-shaped hat skateboarding.

Sidewalk graffiti of a skateboarding … gnome? Or something like that.

YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj Why the Stock Market Hasn’t Crashed Yet - with Paul Krugman

Delightful and informative ...

The Trees once the meanings are done we’ll be

The Trees

Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’ A Charitable (I Hope) Critique

"Even to the extent we reject certain expressions of the culture, we are its children nonetheless. We are not barbarians outside the gate. We are inhabitants of this city we’ve created with responsibilities to love our neighbors and live our lives within it."

And it floats. #oilpainting #art

YouTube video by The Convocation Unscripted Trump’s Continued Endorsement of Violence and Christian Nationalism

Good conversation ...

BOMB Magazine | Rabih Alameddine by Kara Walker To write about his existential experiences among Syrian refugees, the author created a boundary-crossing narrator for his new novel, The Wrong End of the…

Bomb is sending out my interview by Kara Walker, one of my favorites
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a man who rides a horse is called a horseman

Today's ONE WORD from Friars Jack and Greg...

A reflection on the Earl Butz v. Wendell Berry encounter Joan Zwagerman offers some thoughts on the should-be-famous debate between Wendell Berry and erstwhile Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. It would have been interesting to have been in the room wi…

An historical debate ...

Two takes on Wendell Berry’s latest fiction Law & Liberty, an online magazine of Liberty Fund, has published two articles today that respond to Wendell Berry’s short new novel, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story. The first, &#8220…

Two brief pieces on Wendell Berry's recent novella ...

A double exposure of trees—dark trunks, branches, and leaves in the lower section; lighter faded branches at the top.

How Did We Get Here? We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.

Nice ...

A Used Baseball certain you might you could you want

A Used Baseball

‘It’s unexpected joy’: the guerrilla mosaic artists adding colour to potholes, benches and bomb craters From Southampton to Sarajevo, urban mosaicists are transforming city spaces and bringing communities together – one tile at a time

“It’s a repair, but also a poetic gesture,” he says.

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

Toad bangs his poor head against the wall. From "The Story" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" wins the National Book Award One of the year’s most important books gets its due, as its author calls on other writers to speak truth to power

Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" wins the National Book Award

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Monsters, big and small ICE raids in our streets are a pathological form of distraction

"This is the thing about monsters. When we tell stories about them, they are often so strong and intimidating, and yet they seem to want to play for such small stakes."

Pope Leo XIV: Recognizing each other as brothers is antidote to all extremism - Vatican News The Vatican Publishing House (LEV) releases Pope Leo XIV’s new book, entitled “The Power of the Gospel: Christian Faith in 10 Words.” Edited by ...

Pope Leo in new book: “We must look at our world, directly: we can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Many Mushrooms intentionally hobbled as permission to go on

Many Mushrooms

The Empty Stage Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption

"On social media, you are not supposed to talk about death. It is seen as uncouth and is cloaked in non-words like 'unalived': non-words that don’t even rise to the level of euphemism. They are the neologisms of humans self-censoring to dodge the rebuke of robots. What has become of us?"

427 to 1 and 100 to 0 November 18, 2025

"As a people, we have lived through moments more perilous for democracy and dangerous for Americans. That doesn’t lessen the seriousness of the challenges we face. But it should fill us with confidence that we can endure this moment of crisis, as our predecessors endured prior crises."

Notices that’s what was happening while I bought

Notices

How to Build a Home Lessons from the hornero.

How to Build a Home

Black and white image of dried-up chrysantemum flowers.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

van fleet pears, painted by mary daisy arnold

van fleet pears, painted by mary daisy arnold