Time for the having-too-many-tabs-open portion of the day

Out and about on the Internet

Hi friends,

Before we begin this week’s Field Notes, I wanted to point you towards a couple of things:

• My beloved friend

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  is on her honeymoon(!!) and so a few of us are filling in at her brilliant newsletter called
  The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber
  . This week it was my turn and we decided to share an excerpt from my new book, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for An Evolving Faith called The Particular. You can read that excerpt here:

  The Particular

• If you liked it, I wrote a follow-up poem-ish thing that was inspired by that same practice just a couple of weeks ago here called Instructions for Loving in Particular. You can read that here as a chaser.

• The good folks at Church Times in the UK ran a featured profile interview of yours truly as well. You can read that here.

• And finally, I was recently on an episode of the podcast Faith for Normal People with Pete Enns and Jared Byas called It’s Okay to Deconstruct. You can listen to it everywhere you get your podcasts.

At this point of book launch, even I’m sick of me, so thanks to anyone still listening/reading along! 🫠

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Now let’s get to today…

My view from the living room this morning

If you are also buried under a spring snow of 25cms on April 30th,

All of Calgary right now

then today’s newsletter will have you joining me curled up on the couch, clicking links and opening tabs and staying inside for a bit longer.¹ I’m working on a couple of longer essays at the moment including one for Mother’s Day and one about aging, so watch for those coming soon² but in the meantime, let’s get to the having-too-many-tabs-open portion of the day.

Regardless of your weather, today you can settle in for a good read or twelve because in this week’s edition of Field Notes, we’re going on our every-once-in-a-while tour around the Internet. I’ve gathered up some interesting, thoughtful, conversation-starting links and clicks that are worth your time.³

The more serious or thoughtful pieces - from a food blogger in Gaza to the Haiti that still dreams to alternative options for aging to multi-generational homes - are listed first and then at the end of my note here, you’ll find a few lighter links or laughs like a retelling of The Notebook…if Ryan Gosling was a hockey player.