Welcome to Friday,
It is a rainy and foggy weekend here in western Germany. We are going out for Thai food and enjoying the coziness of hot mugs of tea and our favorite autumn candles over the weekend.
Here is what I’d like to share from around the Internet.
The British Landscape Photographer of the Year has been announced for 2022 and the images in the running are all beautiful.
Archaeologists unearth 2,700-year-old rock carvings in Iraq. It’s just amazing to see history continually revealed in this portion of the world.
This essay was such a great advertisement for this biography of C.S. Lewis, I bought the book immediately after reading it. The book is exactly as described, which is to say, a delightful detailing of the literary influences upon Lewis as he wrote various projects. I’ll echo Mr. Oliver in saying there should be more books like this, which trace the influence of books on the mind of an author. Overall, an enlightening and well-researched book, if not the bestseller it should be.
Machiavelli argues the role of the historian, and the study of history by extension, is to provide a comparison with conventions of the present day. To paraphrase Lewis, we are awash in the current attitudes and ideas of our day, and in order to understand them we must get outside of them. We study history, therefore, to understand ourselves.
Alan Jacobs’ summarized his thoughts concerning the bruhaha around Twitter, and they perfectly reflect my own thinking:
“Blogs don’t have the important place on the internet today that they once had; I know that perfectly well, and I don’t care. Those who are genuinely interested in what I have to say can find me here on the open web. Those who aren’t willing to leave Twitter to find good writing … well, God bless them. But I won’t be trying to flag them down.”
So glad to have you here!
Currently reading: Beauty, by Roger Scruton
Have a creative weekend.
Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash
