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About smellincoffee

Citizen, librarian, reader with a boundless wonder for the world and a curiosity about all the beings inside it.

Tuesday tease: habits

Posted on January 3, 2023 by smellincoffee

Plus, Kindle books I forgot I owned. I have struggled with hard habits in my life. I have found these hard habits are only broken by harder habits. Nature abhors a vacuum, meaning I cannot just quit doing something in … Continue reading →

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God’s Promise

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Years ago when I was a ‘spiritual seeker’ and consuming all manner of spiritual-religious content online, from dharma talks to Catholic apologetics and Asatru podcasts, I found some sermons and choir recordings online from a Unitarian Universalist organization. They had … Continue reading →

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The Best of 2022: Year in Review

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Well, here we are at the close of another year – and what a year it was!  2022 will be one of the more unforgettable years in my life, opening as it did with me on dialysis and the sudden … Continue reading →

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What I Read in 2022

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee
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Science Survey 2022

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Science Survey 2017 | Science Survey 2018 | Science Survey 2019 | Science Survey 2020 | Science Survey 2021 The Science Survey, in effect since 2017, is a structured approach to pop-science reading to maintain a broad general science & … Continue reading →

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Predicting…Science Survey 2023

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Below are my prospects for 2023. Although I purchased some of these titles already (those with an * ), it’s rare that my prospects list and my actual list are matches for one another. Cosmology and AstrophysicsThe Edge of Physics:A … Continue reading →

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2022 in other media: Music

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Music I didn’t discover a lot of artists in 2022, but I was utterly obsessed with one and deeply into the other. I stumbled onto Morgan Wade via Youtube and have been listening to (and talking about nonstop to the … Continue reading →

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2022 in other media: movies

Posted on December 31, 2022 by smellincoffee

Favorites are in bold. Updated for the last time tonight… Movies Watched in 2022 1. Wild Target, 2010.  A dark comedy about a lonely assassin who is hired to kill an attractive fraudster and thief (Emily Blunt), but who instead develops … Continue reading →

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Turn off, tune out, and drop in

Posted on December 30, 2022 by smellincoffee

We can get rid of the television set. As soon as we see that the TV cord is a vacuum line, pumping life and meaning out of the household, we can unplug it. What a grand and neglected privilege it … Continue reading →

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A year’s end…

Posted on December 28, 2022 by smellincoffee

Welcome to the liminal space between  the years, as we all recover from Christmas and brace ourselves for a weekend full of fireworks.  Reading activity is definitely ebbing down for me,  and has been for much of December — I’ve … Continue reading →

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