The Orange Notebook
Gideon StraussGideon Strauss's posts and notes in pursuit of what is good for humans, taking into consideration what is good for the whole earth, started in July 2024.
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An experiment in Anglican catechesis
(The image is a photograph I took of the reredos behind the high altar of St. Thomas’s Huron Street Anglican Church in Toronto, Canada—my home parish. The carved wooden figures of eight saints and an angel depict the spiritual ecology of th...
An apology
(The image is a photograph of my difficult-to-see sparrow neighbours in the sparse bush they inhabit during the deep winter. I have no idea how they survive in there, but I am glad for their company.)
Dear subscribers to The Orange Noteboo...
Tiny Manifesto #201
(The image is a photograph I took of the Easter Vigil at Christ Church, the Anglican cathedral in Montreal, Quebec, in 2018. I had been confirmed as an Anglican at an earlier Easter Vigil in that church.)
Towards a Personal Pattern Languag...
Tiny Manifesto #17
(A couple of pages from Vanessa Manceron’s Wild and Wonderful: An Ethnography of English Naturalists, 2025, open on my desk earlier on the day I am writing this post.)
Towards a Personal Pattern Language for Political Action: Iteration 202...
Is there no appeal beyond the realities of power?
(The image is a public domain photograph of a statue of Thucydides in Vienna.)
In a poem that resonates again in our times (“September 1, 1939”), W. H. Auden wrote, “Exiled Thucydides knew all that a speech can say about democracy, and wha...
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I think about the stories we humans tell to account for what we do in terms of what we want, to inform my study of what is good for humans, taking into consideration what is good for the whole earth.
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