This is my sister’s dog Bella. Bella is a rescue and a very good girl.

Cardinal Newman distinguished between notional and real assent to a given proposition. Since I wrote this post three months ago, I have achieved real assent to the propositions listed there. Heck, now I can even watch Arsenal play without agony. But of course this tranquility comes at a price: the complete abandonment of hope for any significant improvement in the next few years. 

This is either the cover of the Turkish edition of Breaking Bread with the Dead or else the album art for my new ambient jazz record.