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2026
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ I am going to Rival Soundsystem Launch Party.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ท Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark. Took a walk through the neighbourhood after dark.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Black Onyx and Strawberry Margarita
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ Jacob Filipp writes about a moment in the 1980s when the Ontario Ministry of Education commissioned a computer designed specifically for students.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
- — ๐ Ladybird (a new web browser), recently migrated part of their code base to a new programming language with the help of Claude Code and Codex (OpenAIโs code model). I thought this idea of human-directed LLM tasks is really great:
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Paddington in Peru.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Paddington 2.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ I started reading Colony by Annika Norlin for 1RGโs Book Club.
- — ๐ท Lumiรจre is back at Trillium Park. Lumiรจre is back at Trillium Park.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Pressure To Party by Julia Jacklin.
- — ๐ท A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm. A quiet, snowy winter weekend at the farm.
- — ๐ฌ Went to see Charli xcxโs new film The Moment.
- — ๐ Bruce MacEvoy, has an awesome website for water colour painters.
- — ๐ The Everdeck is a versatile 120-card system designed to support a wide range of traditional and modern card games. Its design weaves together mathematical and linguistic patterns, allowing it to map cleanly onto many existing systems, standard decks, Tarot, Hanafuda, and more, which makes it especially interesting as a piece of universal game infrastructure.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG Book Club.
- — ๐ Started playing Cairn on my Steamdeck, such an amazing game.
- — ๐ Finished reading Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Night Shift by Lucy Dacus.
- — ๐ Harriet Baker reviews Sophie Calleโs first book Suite Venitienne, which documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice.
- — ๐ I am not going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ฌ I started watching the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — ๐ I am going to MUSTER POINT.
- — ๐ I am going to masterlab - BREAKAGE.
- — ๐ Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Frankenstein, grounding its horror in real debates about resuscitation, galvanism, and ambiguous states between life and death.
- — ๐ Started reading Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Thai Kane by Emerson Woolf & the Wishbones.
- — ๐ Finished reading The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar for 1RG Book Club.
- — ๐ Got to page 88 of The River has Roots.
- — ๐ฌ Just saw Bugonia at Carlton Cinema.
- — ๐ Iโm really enjoying The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
- — ๐ Iโd like to read Seicho Matsumotoโs detective novel Tokyo Express.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 6 of Letterkenny.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — ๐ Finished reading SPYรFAMILY, Volume 1.
- — ๐ Read up to page 85 of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 5 of Letterkenny.
- — ๐ Read up to page 68 of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
- — ๐ I started reading The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar for 1RG Book Club.
- — ๐ Finished reading A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner.
- — ๐ฐ The Stuff That Stuck in 2025 In 2025 I tried to watch and read less US media. This isnโt a definitive list, just the books and movies that followed me out of the room.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 7 of Veep.
- — ๐ Cristian Bฤluศฤ writes about he moded a Panasonic Lumix G9II into a Leica M-Style camera.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ฌ Just saw Marty Supreme at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Memphis by Kitten.
- — ๐ Henry Desroches makes a thoughtful case for reclaiming the Web we actually want by embracing personal, hand-coded, syndicated websites and protocols like RSS & Webmentions.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 1 of Letterkenny.
2025
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season eight of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Black Onyx and Big Apple Red
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 7 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Dune (1984).
- — ๐ Bryan Cantrill shares Oxideโs internal guidance on the use of LLMs in RFD 576.
- — ๐ฌ A look into ORION, a Montreal-based ice surfer known for surfing the St. Lawrence River year-round, even through the frigid winter.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season six of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Avatar: Fire and Ash.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 5 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 2 of Prehistoric Planet.
- — ๐ท Went for a long walk during a winter snowstorm on Boxing Day. Went for a long walk during a winter snowstorm on Boxing Day.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching This Is Spinal Tap.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Love Actually.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season 4 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Lesbian Space Princess.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Sing Good by Ninajirachi.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Wicked: For Good.
- — ๐ง I am listening to Everybody Scream by Florence + the Machine.
- — ๐ I am going to July Talk at History.
- — ๐ Charli XCX commenting on John Caleโs Instagram post, โdefo text me any time!โ.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 3.
- — ๐ท Playing around with mood.camera, an iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography. Really enjoying how it renders indoor light. Playing around with mood.camera, an iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography. Really enjoying how it renders indoor light.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching season two of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching The Boy and the Heron.
- — ๐ Marcus Olangโ reflects on being told his writing sounds like ChatGPT. As a Kenyan, he reframes the comparison: ChatGPT writes like him and like many others shaped by the same educational system.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG Book Club.
- — ๐ I am going to Side Project Social.
- — ๐ฌ I finished watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 1.
- — ๐ท The lake was almost the same colour as the sky, separated only by a thin, pale horizon. Wind came in hard from the water and the waves kept breaking against the rocks in short, restless bursts. Everything felt flattened, quiet, and heavy, like the city was holding its breath. The lake was almost the same colour as the sky, separated only by a thin, pale horizon. Wind came in hard from the water and the waves kept breaking against the rocks in short, restless bursts. Everything felt flattened, quiet, and heavy, like the city was holding its breath.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Berlin TV Tower by Blondshell.
- — ๐ฌ I started watching Pluribus.
- — ๐ฌ I just finished watching The Red Turtle, dialogue-less film that follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
- — ๐ My Spotify Wrapped for 2025.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Ted Lasso.
- — ๐ Swiss mapmakers have been quietly seeding their work with little doodlesโmarmots, spiders, even the occasional hidden hikerโinside official maps.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With It's a Boy!
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Ted Lasso season two.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Knives Out.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Glass Onion.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching the first season of Ted Lasso.
- — ๐ฌ Watched the latest Benoit Blanc film, Wake Up Dead Man.
- — ๐ฌ Started re-watching Ted Lasso season one.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Gilmore Girls season seven.
- — ๐ Emily Sneddon on how she designed Fran Sans, a display font inspired by the destination displays on Muniโs Breda Light Rail Vehicles in San Francisco.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Creature Commandos.
- — ๐ฌ Saw Edgar Wrightโs The Running Man tonight.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season seven of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season six of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season five of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ Peter-Ayers Tarantinoโs Manhattan apartment is packed with books and artwork in every direction. Itโs chaotic, layered, and unbelievably charming.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
- — ๐ฌ Watched the 1987 version of The Running Man.
- — ๐ฌ Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to climb Mount Everest and ski back to Everest Base Camp without supplementary oxygen.
- — ๐ฌ Finisehd watching the third season of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ Dani Offline writes about how everyone wants to be a DJ, but no one wants to dance. She argues that the commodifiction of art has devalued the experience of enjoying art for its own sake.
- — ๐ฌ Watched Hot Fuzz.
- — ๐ Read some of A Gorgeoous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner on my lunch break today.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching all of Amy Sherman-Palladinoโs Gilmore Girls.
- — ๐ฌ Watched Guillermo del Toroโs Frankenstein tonight, it was so good.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season two of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Skate to the Party
- — ๐ท First snowfall of the season. First snowfall of the season.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching the first season of Rick and Morty.
- — ๐ฌ Just watched Super Troopers 2.
- — ๐ฌ Just watched Super Troopers.
- — ๐ Bud Smith writing in The Paris Review about his truck desk,
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season five of Gilmore Girls.
- — ๐ฅ I am going to 1RG's Community Dinner.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ I am going to 1RG's Side Project Social.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Crush by Ethel Cain.
- — ๐ Chase Anderson wrote a guide to reading Jane Austen books in order.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching the latest season of Only Murders in the Building.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season four of Gilmore Girls.
- — ๐ Started reading A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner today.
- — ๐ Finished reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — ๐ Geoffrey Litt on how he uses LLMs to code like a surgeon:
- — ๐ I am going to Side Project Social.
- — ๐ท Was playing around with Leicaโs Pro Manual Camera iOS App today. Was playing around with Leicaโs Pro Manual Camera iOS App today.
- — ๐ฅ I am going to 1RG Community Dinner.
- — ๐ธ I am going to claire rousay presents a little death.
- — ๐ Anil Dash on most people in the tech industry, who actually build things, share the same feelings on AI:
- — ๐ฌ Started watching season five of Only Murders in the Building.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching season two of Foundation.
- — ๐ฌ Watched Good Fortune at Scotiabank Theatre tonight. It was okay, a bit of disappointment.
- — ๐ฌ Re-watched Superman today.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching the latest season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- — ๐ Started reading SPYรFAMILY, Volume 1.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Tile Art to Warm Your Heart
- — ๐ฌ Short documentary of DFA Records, the influential New York City record label founded by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy.
- — ๐ท Awesome memorial by Victoria Day. Awesome memorial by Victoria Day.
- — ๐ Alex Martsinovich on why itโs rude to show AI output to people:
- — ๐บ Finished watching Star Trek: Voyager.
- — ๐ง My current jam is Serotonin by girl in red.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching the first season of Foundation on Apple TV.
- — ๐ The Society of Brevity is for those who believe most sentences can end sooner. We honor concision, condemn excess, and keep introductions short.
- — ๐ Started reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — ๐ Finished reading Nimona.
- — ๐ Liam Hodder writes about how the punk and hardcore community in Alberta are galvanizing against a common enemy, the United Conservative Party. A great read on how local music scenes double as political communities.
- — ๐ท Someone left a small guardian in the garden. Someone left a small guardian in the garden.
- — ๐ Steve Simkins built a site about how the answer to doomscrolling and disconnectedness is Blog Feeds. Itโs meant to be an antidote to endlessly scrolling, just a curated list of people you actually care about.
- — ๐ท Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight. Spotted a Lovebot stencil tucked along a brick wall tonight.
- — ๐ท Waiting for a friend at St. Andrewโs Playground Park. Waiting for a friend at St. Andrewโs Playground Park.
- — ๐ฌ Went to see The Mummy Returns tonight at the Revue Cinema.
- — ๐ง Listened to Double Infinity by Big Thief.
- — ๐ง My current jam is If the World is Ending by BEGINNERS.
- — ๐ฌ Went to see One Battle After Another tonight.
- — ๐ Started reading Nimona.
- — ๐ I finished reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab tonight. Loved it.
- — ๐ธ I am going to Destroyer - Dan's Boogie Tour.
- — ๐ฎ Finally finished Hollow Knight, now on to Silksong.
- — ๐ท Movie Mice Theatre Saw this cute diorama on my evening walk tonight.
- — ๐ท Red Light Signing Through my Window They are filming a movie outside my apartment and there is a huge red light coming into my window.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- — ๐ I am going to Nuit Blanche.
- — ๐ I am going to Side Project Social.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Black Onyx
- — ๐ฐ Building a Calendar Interface in Astro I wanted my website to have a clean, static calendar interface to showcase all my RSVP posts. At first, I considered using FullCalendar, an excellent package, but a bit too heavy for my needs. I wanted something that rendered at build time, without extra client-side scripting. Building a lightweight calendar in Astro with date-fns was surprisingly straightforward.
- — ๐ I am going to Subvert x New Feeling: Music and Co-ops Social & Salon.
- — ๐ I want to read A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel by Cynthia Weiner.
- — ๐ I want to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
- — ๐ Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where peopleโs personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.
- — ๐ท Butterfly
- — ๐ท Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University. Found this cute little guy today near Queen and University.
- — ๐ Painted Nails With Big Apple Red
- — ๐ฐ JSONFeed in Astro with @astrojs/rss I wanted this website to publish both an RSS feed and a JSONFeed. The catch: I didnโt want to maintain two separate feed pipelines.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ I want to read Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
- — ๐ I donโt appreciate Duolingoโs pro-horse agenda.
- — ๐ท Farm Photo Dump A week in the countryside, skies shifting from blue to dusk, trees heavy with summer leaves, wildflowers pushing through stone walls, rain on the patio, and quiet evenings under open skies. A little collection of stillness and light. ๐ฟ๐ฆ๏ธโ๏ธ
- — ๐ฌ Conservationist Matt Somerville has spent 14 years building log hives across England to give wild honey bees safe, low-intervention homes.
- — ๐ท Tomatoes from the garden.
- — ๐ท Lego sculpture on the corner of Edwin Ave and Dupont St.
- — ๐ Paused reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching James Gunnโs Superman.
- — ๐ Started reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
- — ๐ Paused reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching The Fantastic 4: First Steps.
- — ๐ท I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel. I love this map of Toronto on the wall at the White Squirrel.
- — ๐ Started reading Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 1.
- — ๐ I am going to Side Project Social.
- — ๐ Iโm enjoying reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — ๐ I want to read Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki.
- — ๐ I just discovered the creator of She-Ra: Princess of Power, ND Stevenson, wrote a Graphic Novel, Nimona.
- — ๐ Paused reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 9.
- — ๐ I want to read The Use of Photography: Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie.
- — ๐ Someone at last nightโs Silent Reading Club recommended reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier when I mentioned I enjoy reading Queer Horror books.
- — ๐ Started reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 9.
- — ๐ I am going to Silent Reading Club with Nora.
- — ๐ I started reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
- — ๐ท Untitled Photo Post
- — ๐ Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — ๐ Watching 24 Hour Party People made me really want to read Peter Hookโs book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 14.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 8.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 13.
- — ๐ I re-read Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem, a stunning and dreamlike graphic novel.
- — ๐ Finished reading Funny Girl.
- — ๐ I finished reading Everyone Sux But You by K Wroten, what an amazing graphic novel.
- — ๐ Started reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
- — ๐ This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.
- — ๐ Finished reading Final Cut.
- — ๐ Finished reading Iโm a Fool for Loving You.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Ballerina.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 7.
- — ๐ Finished reading Bury Your Gays.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 6.
- — ๐ฌ Finished watching Thunderbolts*.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 5.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 4.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 3.
- — ๐ I finished reading Ballerina by Patrick Modiano and translated by Mark Polizzotti. This one passage stuck with me:
- — ๐ Finished reading The Flowers of Evil.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 2.
- — ๐ Finished reading Land of Mirrors.
- — ๐ Finished reading Land of Milk and Honey.
- — ๐ Finished reading Frieren: Beyond Journeyโs End, Volume 1.
- — ๐ Finished reading The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott.
- — ๐ Finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix.
- — ๐ Finished reading Itโs Lonely at the Centre of the Earth.
- — ๐ Finished reading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.
- — ๐ฌ Just watched Wicked.
- — ๐ Finished reading Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki.
- — ๐ฌ Went to see A Complete Unknown at Scotiabank Theatre.
- — ๐ Finished reading Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Volume 5.
- — ๐ Finished reading Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together.
2024
- — ๐ Finished reading Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness.
- — ๐ Finished reading Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
- — ๐ Finished reading Scott Pilgrimโs Precious Little Life.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 12.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 11.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 10.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 9.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 8.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 7.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 5.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 2.
- — ๐ Finished reading Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1.
- — ๐ฐ Broadacre City โ Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Dystopia Democracyโฆ we have started toward a new integrationโto an integration along the horizontal line which we call the great highway.
- — ๐ฐ Icebergs can get stuck on underwater mountains The current largest iceberg, A-23A, is currently spinning in place on top of an underwater mountain:
- — ๐ฌ I saw Deadpool & Wolverine in the theatres.
- — ๐ Read Pete Wellsโs Times article on his experience reviewing restaurants for the last 12 years.
- — ๐ Read How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki.
- — ๐ Read Sam Krissโs article The Internet is already over.
- — ๐ฐ Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe As a lover of good food, Iโve always been curious about restaurant health inspections. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a tool that makes it easy to explore Torontoโs DineSafe data.
- — ๐ฐ Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc Appโs Daily (or Monthly) JSON exports into a SQLite database. This provides the ability to analysis the places I visit and activities I am doing in Datasette.
- — ๐ Finished reading Bubble.
- — ๐ Finished reading Human Rights, Robot Wrongs.
- — ๐ I just finished reading Health and Safety, which should be required reading for ravers who are 35+.
- — ๐ Finished reading Good Material.
- — ๐ Finished reading All Fours.
- — ๐ Finished reading The Age of Magical Overthinking.
- — ๐ Finished reading Sex Goblin.
2023
- — ๐ฐ ๐ข My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended Seven years ago, I created a little Python script that would add a weather emoji to my Twitter handle, based on the current conditions in Toronto. I donโt think anyone besides myself notices, but it always made me happy to see my handle change to โ๏ธ Myles Braithwaite on a sunny day.
- — ๐ Finished reading Eating to Extinction.
- — ๐ Finished reading Last Exit to Brooklyn.
2022
2021
2020
2019
- — ๐ Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
- — ๐ท I โฅ๏ธ summer in Toronto. I โฅ๏ธ summer in Toronto.
- — ๐ Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycleโor, of course, a walk.
- — ๐ท Waiting to go home from Oakville. Waiting to go home from Oakville.
- — ๐ท Outside is awesome today! Outside is awesome today!
- — ๐ ๐ฅ Hobbs & Shaw was really good.
- — ๐ ๐ต Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.
- — ๐ท Lovebot Graffiti in Toronto To create a better future we must create love within our lives now we have the tools to create love. This is love for not just some of us but for all people. This is love not just in our time, but for all time.