Friday Cocktail: How to keep your diary at the end of the world

Sip: on a Snowfall

Weekend browsing:

• We thought we knew who would win the next war – not any more

• Take this down – Dominic Hilton on his lifelong obsession with notetaking, a bittersweet joy

• Civilisation is dying in San Francisco – and elsewhere, soon

• Doubled energy bills are brutal. The plunging price of light has been a staggering achievement

Listen: to The Peace of Wild Things, read by Wendell Berry

“…I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.“