Currently reading: The shepherd’s life by James Rebanks 📚
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Great game this weekend. Go Gamecocks! 🏈
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Apprenticeships that combine in-class instruction with real-world experience working on a factory floor yield significant earnings gains for workers, a study by two think tanks shows
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The Great British Baking Show in COVIDtide
To watch The Great British Baking Show is to believe that the average guy and gal can do remarkable things, that good nature is compatible with excellence, that high achievement will be recognized, that honest feedback can lead to improvement, that there are things to life beyond work.
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A friend pointed out to me the concept of “sister walls.” Before breaking down a faulty foundations a building, you have to build up a different one to take its place first. This takes time and hard work, but it may be the very thing we have failed to do in western culture.
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Craftsman > Artists
Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential: “Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman, not an artist. There’s nothing wrong with that. The great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen, they weren’t designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying, and I’ll generally take a stand up mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.” 📚
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A good friend gave me a copy of the new calf split leather edition of the Book of Common Prayer (2019), and I couldn’t be more excited about it. I was critical of the early editions of this prayer book, but they keep getting better!
