Hello, friends. I’m going to drop this and dash as I will be “out-of-the-office” for the next few weeks!

Books

• Ramona & Her Mother (1979) and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) by Beverly Cleary

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)

• Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson (2025)

Or watch the short-film documentary here!

Other notable reads

• A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1959)

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025)

Albums

• Messy by Olivia Dean (2023)

• Esperanza by Esperanza Spalding (2008)

Films

• Conclave (2024)

“Even Christ was not certain at the end. ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ he cried out in his agony at the ninth hour on the cross. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore, no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on.”

• Waking Ned Devine (1998)

Other delights