Category: Blog
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Back Pain
Most days, I sit at my desk at home with bad posture. Over the last week, I’ve had painful lower back pain. The few days I ran, that seemed to help. Yesterday, I worked outside with dad all day shoveling, digging, skid-steering, etc. This seems to have fixed my back pain. It seems that work…
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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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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 Long Now
“The Long Now is the Fiat World of reality by declaration, where we are TOLD that inflation does not exist, where we are TOLD that wealth inequality and meager productivity and negative savings rates just “happen”, where we are TOLD that we must vote for ridiculous candidates to be a good Republican or a good Democrat, where…
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Good take, things time.
I was sitting in the park this evening reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and looked across to see this little expression on the window of the yarn shop. I noticed that I read it panel to panel, rather than like words on a page. Naturally I wondered, Why? When do I ever read words top…
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What I don’t know
Most things, it feels like. I get fixated on things that have non-obvious answers and endless developments. This whole tariff episode over the last week has made absolutely no sense to me. And it’s all I can pay attention to. It all feels very Covid-y where you wake up, see which part of the sky…