Reading: The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. Lately I’ve started finally reading a lot of books/authors I’ve been meaning to read for decades. 📚

“Nobody has any zeal about arithmetic. It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.” – Bertrand Russell

We finally watched The Meyerowitz Stories this evening and, as has happened with every Noah Baumbach film I’ve seen, I’m left wondering why I waited so long to experience it. 🍿

“There is little unfairness in a colony of ants, but there is also little freedom.” – Madeleine L’Engle

We are halfway through the final season of The Man in the High Castle and there is much about it that I find disturbing, particularly in the fifth episode, which we watched last night. (Disturbing does not mean bad; it just means … disturbing.) 📺

I heard myself describe something as “more art than science” and realized I was doing both of those things a disservice.

“I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like I fell in love.” - Greene, TEOTA 📚

Currently reading The End of the Affair and kind of stunned (and more than a little embarrassed) that it took me 50 years to start reading Graham Greene. 📚

The walls above Girona.

Earlier this month, I turned 50 in Barcelona. It was my first time in Spain. Among many other things, I discovered what anchovies actually can be, and they are amazing.