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Try Being Funnier

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 5, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise

So, you might have observed, I haven’t been blogging. What seems to have happened–without planning or forethought from me–is that I’ve drifted into a comfortable, rather depressed haze whereby I read a lot of news, think about saying something about...

My Annual Post About The Fall Foliage

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 28, 2022 | Church Year, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise

I’m not moving through Heavenly Participation very quickly because I don’t ever have time to read. Indeed, whenever I do sit down in a chair with a physical book in my hand, it is as though I have bought for myself an expensive sound system, perfectly calibrated it,...

Get OFf My Lawn

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2022 | Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise

Well, I really hate that this is apparently a thing: It’s ironic. Texting was meant to make communication easier, but it can be much harder to discern someone’s tone over text, especially with inflections as subtle as sarcasm. It’s not as straightforward as...

It Doesn’t Matter What I Think About It

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 16, 2022 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc, U.S. Politics

I couldn’t blog yesterday because I was so distracted watching the BBC Livestream of people going past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin that I couldn’t tear myself away to put any words on a page. The first thing that surprises me about the events of this past week is that...

Who Can I Blame?

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 14, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Jesus, Oppression

Upsetness about the existence of the monarchy in Great Britain manifested as a certain kind of rejoicing over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, continues apace over on Twitter. I was scrolling in the desultory way that I generally do in the late afternoon, waiting for...

If You’re Casting About For A Missing Heroic Archetype

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 13, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise, History

I didn’t make any progress down my enormous stack of books over the last three months….by which I mean that I binged mystery novels and only did bite-sized amounts of Reading For Information, which is not what I had intended. I did slowly make my way through this long...