Wednesday Blog by Seán Thomas Kane

This week, some comments about my trip to Boston last month and reflections on that resilient city. --- Click Here to Support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, in memory of His Holiness Pope Francis and of the revolutionary anniversaries in America and Ireland this week, some words on the humility necessary for the best sorts of leaders. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane Photo: By Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/...

This week, reflections on Michel de Montaigne’s perception of his changing character throughout his life. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, how our relationship with the natural world reflects on our relationships with each other. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane Photo by Hariprasad Ashwene, 2024.

This week, a few words on taking life slower. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, how I take nuance and particularity into account in my efforts as a translator. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, what does it mean for my community to call ourselves Irish Americans? --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, a meditation on the Name of God. --- Art: Studio of El Greco, "Agony in the Garden," (1590) oil on canvas, 102 x 131 cm, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio, USA, National Gallery, London . Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, a few words on homeownership. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

How distractions can be beneficial or detrimental, from a certain point of view. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane I recommend you now listen to: On Pauses A link to the WBEZ Chicago story referenced in this episode.

This week, talking through three terms I’ve historically had trouble understanding: epistemology, ontology, and teleology. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, how numbers are both a universal language and symbols representing deeper meaning. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, I discuss how my experience working with genealogy databases helped prepare me to be a professional researcher. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, some thoughts on the divestment of our social media attention and why I choose to use different platforms for different sorts of messages. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane Photo of the author by Hariprasad Ashwene, 2024.

This week, looking ahead to the next 25 years here are three things that I hope we see become ordinary things by 2050. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://wwww.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, to begin Season 5, I discuss some hopes of mine for the first quarter of the twenty-first century through reflections on three things that I imagined might be possible twenty-five years ago. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

Season 4 Finale: This week, to celebrate Christmas I’ve decided to write a bit about naming conventions that I’ve come across, and to explain why I use my full name professionally. Nollaig shona daoibh | Merry Christmas! --- Click Here to Support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, for my birthday I want to write to you about my belief in all of us and how democracy remains our best hope. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, how the same tools can be used to weave a variety of different stories. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, some notes on the story I released here last week, more about Carruthers Smith and the other stories who populate that tale. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, a story about excess and secrets all in a museum built by an old reclusive Gilded Age tycoon named Carruthers Smith. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane The episode artwork this week was generated by Dreamstudio. I really need to get back to sketching.

This week, an odd sort of sorrow that explains my reading habits. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, some words on the places I visited and the people I met on this North American Tour I finished on Sunday. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, to start November, a realization I had recently about how to overcome less severe colds. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : ⁠https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane⁠ Photo: a moose diorama on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia taken by the author in August 2022.

This week, I have a spooky short story for you, based on an experience I had over the summer. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane Photo: an empty corridor in the Paris Métro as seen by the author on the evening when this spooky story takes place.