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I'm Dan Jewett the caretaker, night-watchman, what have you.
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"Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time."
~ Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
What's here...
You can see below how I've grouped The categories on the site.
And
then here's all of it together →
Articles / Essays →
Notes coalesce…
Notes →
Some become completed thoughts, others not so much.

Long reads.
April 18, 2025
I’ve decided I’m going to take on a series of longer book reads in my routine and use them as a way to work on improving my concentration.… the rest

Psychedelic Freak Out
April 9, 2025
My seven year old self was of course oblivious to what was happening in the rock world’s Summer of Love.… the rest

Appreciating the Utilitarian Aesthetic
March 6, 2025
I find it interesting that I will get so much satisfaction from executing a task at the command line where I experience only text and a certain amount of invisible magic, and then turn around and be disdainful of a graphical interface that doesn’t appear super-slick or modern.… the rest


Life and Legacy
February 3, 2025
As I'm reading the final chapters of East of Eden by John Steinbeck the question of legacy… the rest

Shadows and Light
February 2, 2025
Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light has been a favorite of… the rest
It's a Well Considered Process
January 29, 2025
First go through all the links you saved to the temporary folder… the rest


Starving the Billionaires
January 22, 2025
The immediate non-violent way that comes to mind is to stop buying their… the rest
Our Leaders Are Nazis Now
January 21, 2025
I'm about ten years older than my immediate group of friends with one or two exceptions.… the rest
What I've Decided to do About Social Media
January 18, 2025
The big bugaboo. How much social… the rest
What Should Go in Notes Anyway?
January 18, 2025
I've made this site. I should populate it with… the rest
Books →
Books I'm reading, have completed, or …didn't finish 😬.
First Paragraphs →

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1
April 15, 2025

The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums
In Progress

The Long Ships
In Progress

The Forty Day of Musa Dagh
On Deck

Death of a Salesman
February 7, 2025

Man’s Search for Meaning
June 19, 2017

All the Pretty Horses

All the Names

Changing Planes
February 13, 2025

In Ascension
On Deck

Moby Dick
On Deck

Valis
On Deck

The Dispossesd
In Progress

Gravity’s Rainbow
In Progress

Letters to a Young Poet
January 19, 2025

Something in the Woods Loves You
In Progress

Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing
In Progress

Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
October 20, 2024

Git For Humans
September 23, 2024

East of Eden
In Progress

Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
June 13, 2024

In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
June 4, 2024

Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One
June 1, 2024

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
May 25, 2024

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
May 3, 2024

Flowers For Algernon
May 1, 2024

Stoner
April 9, 2024

Roadside Picnic
March 9, 2024

Children of Time
March 2, 2024

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
February 11, 2024

Solaris
January 25, 2024

Shadow & Claw: The Book of the New Sun 1-2
January 18, 2024

Red Rising
January 6, 2024

Hyperion
November 25, 2023

We Who Are About To…
October 29, 2023

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
February 28, 2022

Bear
February 28, 2022

Blue Horses: Poems
September 25, 2021

Rowing Faster: Serious Training for Serious Rowers
September 20, 2021

Evidence: Poems
September 20, 2021

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
August 26, 2021

Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
July 6, 2021

Harrow the Ninth: Locked Tomb 2
June 18, 2021

Postcolonial Love Poem
June 17, 2021

Gideon the Ninth: Locked Tomb 1
June 5, 2021

How to Take Smart Notes
May 20, 2021

Klara and the Sun
May 19, 2021

The Overstory
April 25, 2021

Something Wicked This Way Comes
April 8, 2021

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
April 7, 2021

The Peace of Wild Things
April 4, 2021

The Cosmic Purr: Poems
April 3, 2021

Gasoline
April 3, 2021

Angle of Repose
March 31, 2021

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
March 19, 2021

The Phantom Tollbooth
March 16, 2021

The Best of Saki: Selected wtih an Introduction by Graham Greene
March 16, 2021

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
March 15, 2021

House Made of Dawn
March 15, 2021

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
January 15, 2021

The Captive Mind
January 12, 2021

Farewell, My Lovely
November 10, 2020

The Big Sleep
November 1, 2020

A Gentleman in Moscow
August 12, 2020