What I’m Doing Now

Updated October 25, 2026

In Progress

• I am shopping for a table-type desk for the eventual iMac purchase I plan to make late this year or early next year. Currently looking hard at Oakywood, because of Stuart Lennon.
• I may try an interim table as a test before I make a major purchase.
• I have a window bird feeder that fills from the inside. I hope to have installed before winter.

Technology

• I have updated my analog defaults for writing tools.
• I am not buying a HomeView, but I want to. I truly can’t think of a genuine practical use that would serve me better than my current solutions, (despite some genuine effort at rationalization) and, I have no idea where I would put one.

Reading

• Still doing a lot of re-reading of favorite novels.
• Currently reading Phillip Freeman’s edition and translation of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy. Freeman’s How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship is part of Princeton University Press’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series. These are new editions, often using excerpts, attractively bound in small hardcovers with facing-page translations.
• Also re-reading Chris Bailey’s Intentional: How to Finish What You Start, this time reading my own copy instead of the library’s. I think values journaling might be part of my formal journaling effort.
• I have finished Oliver Burkeman’s Meditation for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts. It isn’t what I expected from the title. It isn’t about conventional meditation, nor is a conventional productivity book about doing more work in less time. It is, rather, about making the best use of the finite time we have.
• I have a schedule for my holiday and early 2027 re-read of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Middle English.
• I have been asked if I will be blogging my re-read. I don’t think so. Too much plagiarizing at present.
• I may do a free newsletter or something if there are any folks interested.
• So far the best new-to-me books I have read this year are Amy Tan The Backyard Bird Chronicles and Clare Walker Leslie Keeping a Nature Journal. Both books are beautifully illustrated, and it’s especially worth buying the print versions.

My Now page was inspired by David Sparks’ Now page.

You can see previous Now pages, AKA Then pages.

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