Category Fleeting Thoughts

Thoughts on current events and culture that would likely be forgotten if not written down.

The worst things.

I’ve often said that the worst things to happen to our culture are social media, the stock market, and the industrial revolution. I think we can expand that list to five. 1. The 24 Hour News Cycle/News As Business News…

Music From Another Time

I don’t know what every other person’s relationship to music is. I’m always more than a little shocked when people tell me they don’t listen to music. I’ve joked that I believe I’m responsible for Spotify raising their prices; I…

An Old Friend

I saw an old friend this week. When the temperature was 30 below zero in the wind, and the sun was bathing itself in fire and twilight, I saw him on the horizon and heard him in the trees. For…