Author: Andrew
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Kids, 4/23/2025!
It’s great to have Pisgan back open after they closed the taproom during the Covid pandemic. I believe the new taproom was supposed to open late summer or early fall of 2024, but then Hurricane Helene significantly delayed that. This is a favorite spot here with our friends and the kids friends (friend’s kids). Last…
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Metaphysical Still Life
I discovered this image, and others, through my friend Ron’s newsletter. Giorgio Morandi was an early 20th century Italian painter, known for his sparse still lifes. Over the course of 40 years, he painted over 1000 pieces, largely of the same general subject matter, bottles on a table. The bulk of the bottle paintings are muted,…
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What I ate for Lunch Today
Remember when this was the most common complaint people had about social media? Something like, “no one cares what you ate for lunch today.” And then, one day, social media wasn’t that anymore.Instead, it devolved into threadbois and political psyops. Anyways, not what I came here to write about. For lunch today, I ate some…
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Real and Symbolic Power
In a recent group discussion at church, Pope Francis’s death came up. We seemed to agree, spoken and unspoken, that he was a good man. A different kind of pope. His papacy was one that restored and reordered the Catholic church. Perhaps the church catholic too. He emphasized those things which are commanded unto us…
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Live Not by Lies
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies One to read over, and over again. And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle,…
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‘Cry More Libs’ is not a Strategy
https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-trump-enemies I’d read almost anything that’s self-critical of one’s own “party.” This should tell me what I need to know about my own ability (and responsibility) to do this. This was a striking paragraph:
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Reflections on Current Affairs
I have a tendency to over-consume and over-indulge on a subject without stopping and reflecting on why. Recently, I’ve been consuming lots of information on the Trump 2.0 tariffs and the potential fall (destruction?) of Pax Americana. In school as a kid, I didn’t pay much attention to the way things work. As an adult…
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Trying hard
I’m not someone who can maintain an effort in something I’m not interested in. I know this well about myself now. For example, there are lots of little side quests one can take with AI to money a bit of extra money. These anecdotes and “you should try this” statements are everywhere with my generation…
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The Emergency is Here
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This is sin