“Unless you love the music of words you are merely a pamphleteer.”  Mary Szybist on Charles Wright, as a teacher and a poet.

Interesting piece on young people in the Reformation.  "The tension between youthful energy and the stability of tradition"  --maybe not "stability" but "entropy," which may be stability but may just be a simple need for a nap. Couple this with Michael Walzer's The Revolution of the Saints and you have a pretty interesting account of the demographic, and cultural, sources of social unrest.   

Thoughtful review(ish) of Leah Price's What We Talk About When We Talk About Books.

Thomas Tryon’s 17th-century self-help book, helpfully entitled “The way to save wealth; showing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day".  Along with its financial advice, it also discusses how “to know anyone’s mind by signs,” how to interpret dreams, and how to “cure wounds by sympathy.”  All of these are probably equally legit.  

The character of the United States's demographic changes over the next decade.  There will be more of us; we will be significantly older, and we will continue to be less and less white.

Happy Sunday!