Looks like we're going to have some new folks around here. Here's what you can expect: 1) general disapproval of modernity 2) endearing vignettes of bickering w/ my 17yo son about Napoleon 3) love of Appalachia 4) deeply protective of working class 5) probably too ecumenical

Ah, well, the thing is, when I said we should "circle back to this in the new year", you have to understand that I genuinely thought this day would never come. I thought holiday forever

Me Dec 26th - Jan 1st:

A medieval Christmas hedgehog to put the finishing touch on your holiday 🎄🦔 This little guy dates from around 1302 and can be found in Verdun, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 107, fol. 8

Midnight mass original cover illustration of the 1947 Christmas edition of Journal de Tintin

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ~ Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales Snowing by the Sea 🎨 Jo Grundy

Tonight's Winter Solstice — the Longest and Darkest Night of the Year — Prepares Us for the Light of Christmas Morning, by @MichaelReneau @sometimesalight @thedispatch https://t.co/UeMANwKomZ

Okay but some people will never know the absolute win of owning the leather pocket KJV Bible w/ clasp & name engraved in gold. Legit status symbol for a certain generation. I got mine for high school graduation

'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden

The Cycle of the Seasons by Hildegard of Bingen, 12th c.

For ADHD, an actually useful accommodation is that if there's a two-hour exam, you get one hour to take the exam, and for the hour before you can look at the textbook, probably for the first time.

“Tomorrow I’ll get up and workout at 6:00 am!” Me at 9:00 am:

@sometimesalight @DukeDivinity How it started How it’s going

The last four years have held devastating personal losses but being in school was part of God’s provision for this season. I leave w/ my heart, soul, & mind full. So much grace, so much goodness.

TL; DR: Someone tagged a professor at DDS who reached out & encouraged me to apply… this was what Twitter used to be. Connecting people who would never be connected otherwise. I didn’t even know the program existed or that it might be feasible for me.

Yesterday I turned in my last project at @DukeDivinity, graduating w/ an MDiv + Certificate in Theology & Art. This is the tweet that started it all. I am not lying when I say Twitter changed my life😭

Insofar as Ds position themselves as holding moral high ground, yes, Jones's win is newly damning, but only b/c of the moral claim not b/c the circumstances are somehow different from... https://t.co/wOYJ6G8P7Y.y.thing. else we've seen in politics for a decade.

Jones's win is entirely in keeping w/ ... *waves hand in general direction of reality* ... everything. It is not an aberration b/c that's the political culture that's been manifest over the last decade. It is really so very consistent.

I envy the shock b/c it suggests continued optimism in American political system that I can no longer muster. We're not w/out hope, but we can't be naive about the state of things. Ten years ago this would've been unthinkable... but now remember what's happened in those ten years

This isn't whataboutism... I'm just honestly surprised at the number of folks who are shocked by his election & see it as representing some moral turning point. That turning point came & went. At this point, we might be looking at a terminal symptom but not a cause.

I honestly don't understand why Jay Jones's in VA win is surprising everyone. The electorate has been conditioned for at least the last decade that words are only words, private behavior is not relevant to political office, & the rule of law means whatever you can get away with.