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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 18/09/2026

“Do not taunt happy fun ball.” - Origen

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 22/08/2026

I went outside and ran errands. That was a poor life choice. Why do we even need August, anyway?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 15/08/2026

Another #TinyJoy - finding the mate to my favorite pair of Darn Tough socks, lost long enough ago I was sure it was gone forever. How it ended up in a reusable grocery bag will remain mysterious.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 15/08/2026

I'm watching two beloved classmates be ordained to the diaconate on livestream, and it turns out I cry just as much watching videos of ordinations as I do in person. The Church gained blessings today, amen.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 14/08/2026

I have so much to do today, and yet I am sitting here watching The Local Project vids on gorgeous architect-designed modern homes. They are just so *pretty*.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 14/08/2026

After a month plus of back and forth with AT&T about the unexplained removal of my watch from my account, and three tickets trying to add it back (which is something they aren't easily able to do, I guess), it has cell service again. A #tinyjoy in terms of the "problem," but hard-won, nonetheless.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 14/08/2026

I would never vote for Paxton anyway, but as a fountain pen person, this ad is effective. James Talarico won’t steal your pen.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 13/08/2026

I'd have to wash and dry it all first, and that feels Herculean today. Maybe tomorrow.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 08/08/2026

To all of the fountain pen people - has anyone found a good replacement for Iroshizuku Kiri-same? I have one bottle left, and it's time to start auditioning gray inks. Thank you! #fountainpens

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 05/08/2026

The emails from my seminar about the fall semester started today. It's coming.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 31/07/2026

Drafting a sermon longhand with my favorite fountain pen and good paper is life-changing, and I don’t know why I haven’t done this before.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 25/07/2026

I'm trying to get my brain into sermon-writing mode after reading and making notes all day. My brain wants to do absolutely nothing instead.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 24/07/2026

As someone who recently put in an ILL request for a book I forgot I already own, I resemble this.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 10/07/2026

If I "take a nap" at 7:00 pm, I just make be wide awake a 4:30 am. Since I was awake at an hour that used to be my bedtime, I did morning prayer from the books, instead of using an app. I should do that more often, it's so peaceful in the pre-dawn darkness.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 08/07/2026

I have a question for TEC clergy, seminarians, and lay folk who have served on a parish lay committee for a candidate's field ed training - what sort of things did you discuss in the committee? Sermon feedback, for sure, but what other kinds of topics were helpful with the committee? #TEC 🕯️

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 08/07/2026

One time, a very long time ago, American Express sent a pre-approved credit card offer to “Episcopal Christ.” The rector of Christ Church Episcopal responded appropriately.

Letter to Amex from Rodger Woods dated 4/16/1990, declining a pre-approved credit card offer to Christ - “I am sure that should He ever decide to store up things on earth, rather than in heaven, that one of your cards might be just what He needs.”

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 17/06/2026

It’s like what I imagine pineapple coconut lo mein would taste like? The jury is still out on this.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 17/06/2026

Curiosity is going to win, here.

Picture of a yellow candy wrapper saying “Durian Candy”

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 17/06/2026

LiveJournal. (Yes, I’m old.) Long form posting, complete control over who could see your posts, no advertising, and lively communities. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 08/06/2026

On brioche with mayo (by which I mean Hellman's), salt, and fresh cracked pepper, served open faced. Add some pour over iced coffee with it for extra summer bliss.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 25/05/2026

If I need to spend a rainy day indoors writing, this is a lovely place to do so.

Picture of a green Virginia landscape on a rainy day with a dark purple plum tree.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 22/05/2026

It’s a slow summer morning, the best time for breaking out the chemex and making slow coffee.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 29/04/2026

I just read a Facebook comment (my mistake) where someone complained about “old hymns from the 1990s”. I’ll be in my crypt, recovering from my case of the vapors.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 26/04/2026

I have a question for the lovely people in the Narthex - how do keep track of your list of people to pray for? Digital, app, notebook, some secret thing? My memory is not serving me well. 🕯️

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 26/04/2026

One of the wonderful women who makes everything happen at my field ed parish will cook for me and the other seminarian, especially during finals. This week, she sent us home with chicken pot pies ready to bake. My apartment smells ah-mazing. Chicken pot pie is an entire love language.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 22/04/2026

My liturgy professor (correctly): "The liturgy is not a democracy." The urge to post this on r/episcopalian and make popcorn is not one of my more grace-filled thoughts.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 18/04/2026

From the Episcopal Diocese of Texas Bishop George Kinsolving's diaries, January 1893: "Returned to Austin and found a number of letters, many of them annoying." An evergreen mood.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 18/04/2026

Many people mispronounce my last name even after multiple corrections - it’s pronounced Kluff rather than Klow or Kloe. I don’t like it, but I’m resigned to it, mostly because repeatedly correcting someone feels rude and uncharitable after a while.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 11/04/2026

Splashdown was perfect and beautiful! I didn't expect to cry - watching that healed something that has hurt since 1986 in Ms. Tamrowski's sixth grade English class.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.” - St. Óscar Romero

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

you should always get out of the house, there might be a baby who is still learning about waving hello

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 04/03/2026

It was wonderful, locker room and walk down the hallway in a swimsuit be darned.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 03/03/2026

In an hour, I'm going to an aqua strength training class for the first time. This involves being in a swimsuit in the public. A friend is picking me up, which is the only thing that's going to get me out of the house for this.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 31/01/2026

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college 1. Ancient Technologies 2. Visual Culture on the Skids 3. The Anthropology of HIV 4. Astrophysics for Science Majors 5. Romantic Literature

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 30/01/2026

New from my Liturgical Theology professor.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 25/01/2026

Adventures in seminary - checking the syllabi and somehow I'm already behind even though classes haven't started yet. Every semester, lol. Snow days are for reading and coffee.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They shot Renee Good in the face. They kidnapped Liam Ramos. They just executed a man on the street. Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/01/2026

live your life such that millions of people don’t drop everything they’re doing to collectively hope that It Happened at the slimmest of signs

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 21/01/2026

Roger Waters Rush Ministry Tears for Fears Crash Worship

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 29/11/2025

Generally, living a block from the UT Austin campus is pleasant enough. On UT v A&M game night, it is not so okay. So. Much. Noise.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 01/11/2025

A crucial part of staying home on Halloween to write a paper about the Pelagian Controversy is dancing around in sock feet to Dead Can Dance.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 11/09/2025

Some evenings, I just need to make a grilled cheese and curl up in a blanket.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 08/09/2025

Joy is being asked to assist with a research project that is *precisely* at the intersection of two of my favorite interests to explore. Happy nerding awaits! not so #tinyjoys

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 06/09/2025

In the year of our Lord 2025, the traditional military plane flyover before a UT Austin home game does not resonate as anything celebratory.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 24/07/2025

I'm trying to find time for my weekly therapy appointment in my fall schedule, but between classes, field ed hours, and work-study obligations there are scant few hours to use. I suspect that the bags under my eyes are going to be EPIC after the second year of seminary is done with me.

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Casey Clough @caseyclough.com · 23/07/2025

This morning I used beans from a sample bag from Onyx Coffee that I somehow lost the label to. I can tell that the beans are Nordic roasted, and that brewed in a moka pot and made into an oat milk latte, they are delicious. Thank you, mystery beans. #TinyJoys

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2025

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

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