Friday Links
Dappled Things is looking for Associate Editors
Seth Wieck’s Letter to Amarillo’s New Mayor
Makers and Keepers: On the Goodness of Things - Jess Sweeney in Humanum Review
A sonnet for Ascension Day from Malcolm Guite
Dappled Things is looking for Associate Editors
DT is looking for a few associate editors to join the team. You can find more information and an application here. Please consider it! You’d be very welcome.
Seth Wieck’s Letter to Amarillo’s New Mayor
In some ways, it feels as if it is always election season in America.The signs on the lawns, the “I Voted” stickers, the haranguing celebrities telling us to vote for, the lies candidates tell about themselves and each other. Despite that, do we have many good leaders? Or elected officials who truly care and work for the common good? Seth Wieck’s Substack, In Solitude, For Company, is always worth reading and this one is no exception. In this newsletter, he writes a really thoughtful letter to the presumed incoming mayor of Amarillo. Read the whole thing!
Makers and Keepers: On the Goodness of Things - Jess Sweeney in Humanum Review
From Jess Sweeney reviews Makoto Fujimura’s Art and Faith: A Theology of Making:
In his book, Fujimura develops a compelling approach to living that seeks to cultivate a core aspect of our human nature, that we, like our Creator, are makers. Our “desire and ability to make things,” mirrors God’s own creative outpouring. This mirroring importantly imparts significance on our making and on the things of this world, whether that’s making high art, designing an object for everyday use, or pouring creativity into a project at work. That creative impulse to craft, mold, and preserve is at the heart of how we live in this world. We are not machines or cogs in a factory line; our human touch and imagination matters. We are drawn to imitate our Creator.
A sonnet for Ascension Day from Malcolm Guite
A sonnet from Malcolm Guite. He very generously shares his work, including recordings of his poems. These lines are particularly lovely:
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and Heaven-centred now, and sings,
Sings in the strength that rises out of weakness
