by Mike Kanin

NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of October: NGC 884

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present a Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: NGC 884 Why?: ’Cause … it’s an […]

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number 11

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number 11: Still feeling full? Try not to forget that this time.

Playlist to go with My Own Personal Jesus

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. Since we missed this past Friday, we’re offering this playlist today. Co-editor Mike Kanin was so inspired by Joe MacLeod’s Monday Thought about Bela Lugosi as Jesus that he made a playlist about it. We hope you enjoy it.

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number 10

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number 10: Chop down an old bad memory. It’s harvest season, make the most […]

Corinne Wasserman’s pot roast recipe, in her own hand (written on a Christmas card envelope)

For Corinne Wasserman on Rosh Hashanah

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My mother grew up in two houses in northern New Jersey. I never saw the first and know it only by its address (which became its name). Despite some deep complications, the second still produces a profound feeling of warmth and love echoed only, in what is a very recent experience, in the sense of […]

NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of September: Neptune

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present a Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: Neptune Why?: ’Cause … the planet is […]

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number Nine

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number nine: Watch something rot. It might do you some good. Or not.

Jared Tennant, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of August: The Perseid Meteor Shower

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present a Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: The Perseid Meteor Shower Why?: ’Cause … […]

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number 8

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number eight: Buy a potato. See what happens.

NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of the Month: Saturn

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Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present a Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: Saturn Why?: ‘’Cause … the rings When: […]