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Annunciation to the Shepherds by Taddeo Gaddi:
The painting is obviously interesting for a variety of reasons, but I’m particularly drawn to how the animals are represented. Here’s a cropped version that provides a little more detail:

I’m giving Sufjan’s latest, Javelin, a spin. Three tracks in, it’s vintage Sufjan (meant in the best sense).

Awkwardly coexisting is about the best you can hope for with these two.

Ivan Illich, with a passage that deserves to be read slowly and pondered deeply:

If the greatest fruit of man’s labor should be the education he receives from it and the opportunity which work gives him to initiate the education of others, then the alienation of modern society in a pedagogical sense is even worse than its economic alienation.