My daughter wanted to send a letter to Santa so I cleaned and refilled my fountain pens for the first time in years. I’m glad to have finally had a push to do this. Time to use these much more!

Finished reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 📚 a very enjoyable read. The writing style was fantastic and a very character driven book. I have a writing theory about one character but it would be too spoiler-ish to share in public.

Ah instagram. Where I’m being offered “get paid for drawing: beginner illustration course”. Maybe, just maybe, if you’re an absolutely beginner you shouldn’t do it with the goal to get paid for it. Maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to have hobbies for fun and not hustles for money.

🔗 Does Tim Keller Have an Intellectual Successor? - Jordan Cooper some good reflections here from Jordan but I’d certainly debate some throw away points he makes.

I think today would be a really good day to do a random act of kindness towards someone.

The means are the end.

I guess America decided “Sure, he tried a violent insurrection and he will deal with his enemies list on day one as well as deport millions of legal and illegal immigrants, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take for lower inflation driven by measures that most leading economists say will increase inflation.”

What could possibly go wrong.

Well this is awkward. I just realised that I forgot the 5th of November despite a rhyme specifically telling me not to.

I only realised thanks to my family WhatsApp group.

Visiting graves on All Saints’ Day.

When world’s collide. Really enjoyed hearing @dswanson on the holy post podcast. It made me realise how although I’ve lived in Wieliczka for 8 years there’s still so much I just don’t notice each day. What a beautiful gift.

I’m fully expecting apple to just update the Mac accessories to have USB-C not lightning and think that’s fine…except the Magic Mouse. And Apple, if you ever want an easy win to make Apple fans suddenly think “the old Apple is back” just sort out the Magic Mouse.