#25

toast, Walt Whitman, & some Thelonious Monk

Welcome to the table.

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A painting worth viewing:

Wheatfield with Partridge (1887) by Vincent Van Gogh

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A poem worth pondering:

When I Heard the Learn’d Astromoner by Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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Music worth listening to (on shuffle):

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A quote worth noting:

“He who loses himself in his passion is less lost than he who loses his passion.”

St Augustine

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Comic relief:

Source: The Square Comics

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Odds & ends:

• Books: Still reading bio of Margaret Thatcher! Also reading Strahan Coleman’s Thirsting and Nancy Pearcey’s Love Thy Body. GOOD STUFF.

  • Strahan Coleman has a Substack:

• Wanna-be-chef: I don’t have any tips or recipes this time…but I do have a question: You’re about to eat toast. Is that toast going to be almond butter, peanut butter, OR buttered toast?

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That’s all for now!

All my best,

Alexandra