Recently watched “Hoppers” movie from Pixar (Mar 2026 release) with the fam’ and REALLY enjoyed!
Strong recommend, not only as a fun and not ditzy kids movie, but also for a fairly dimensional and insightful treatment of many subjects (reminiscent of Pixar’s stronger works).
Two thumbs up. 👍👍
Holding & Letting Go by Malcolm Guite
We have a call to live
and oh, a common call to die.
I watched you and my father go
to bid a friend goodbye.
I watched you hold my father’s hand.
How could it not be so?
The gentleness of holding on
helps in the letting go.
For when we feel our frailty,
how can we not respond
and reach to hold another’s hand
and feel the common bond?
For then we touch the heights above
and every depth below.
We touch the very quick of love,
holding and letting go.
Only a tenth of the way through Book 1, but really enjoying and charmed by Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite, a poetic re-telling of Arthurian tradition and the beginning of a four-part series under the banner of Merin’s Isle: The Tale This Land Still Keeps.
It’s very accessible and a welcome enriching of the reading experience – do not let the poetry give you pause, it’s highly lucid and flowing. And the artwork is quite nice too: hearkening back, but also fresh.
For the U.S. market, check out the series page on the Rabbit Room Press. And below find the official trialer.
Some days you just lose an hour or two on computer issues that aren’t a problem until they’re suddenly a crippling problem ->
Bose 700 UC headphones work fine and use everyday for years … Then one day the sound is fine, but the mic function has mysteriously disappeared from existence in the computer. Reboot the computer, reboot the headset (try to figure out how), remove Bluetooth entry, try to clear pairing list from headset (try to figure out how), reference AI for help suggestions, etc. …
Then finally, the background functionality you rely on for hours everyday that’s never an issue, is mysteriously back and you can start working again … eesh.
On our recent family road trip to Maine, did some audibook listening via the Libby public library app. I never read C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series as a kid, but have been discovering them with my kids. We ended up listening to two from the series on the trip: The Horse and His Boy, and The Silver Chair.
Enjoyed both, and definitely found the latter particularly engaging myself. A big part of that was the reader: Jeremy Northam. And as the graphic below suggests, it wasn’t so much “read” by Northam, as “performed” (in a good way). Not that it’s an overly dramatic reading, but the character voices he does are great and do draw you deeper into the story (including Puddleglum, a particular star of the tale).
Anywho, a recommend if you’re looking for something and/ or come across. 🙂👍
Jeff Cavins provides a 20-minute overview of The Great Adventure Bible from Ascension Press, which powerfully embeds his Bible Timeline method with wonderful maps, charts, explanations, and cross-references turning what can be a daunting text into a highly accessible and spiritually fruitful treasure.
Like Proton Pass for personal use, but seeing good things about Keeper for business team use.
(And have been less-than-thrilled with LastPass over the years - adequate but feel like could be notably better.)
Need to check your favicon? – Look no further: Favicon Checker.
(Okay, so slightly niche, but still useful, product.)
Finally getting around to rolling out Mythos Theme released by Matt Langford in Aug 2025 –
As part of that, just learning that as of Oct 2025 he migrated his personal blog to Bear.
Nonetheless, still appreciate his work and also seems like he may be keeping connections to the Micro.blog platform.
