Category: Blog
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Today is another step change
Today, there was an assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk. This is horrific. It’s devastating. And, unbelievably, there will be mixed emotions on the internet about it. This kind of political violence has the signatures of “last days of the empire” type events. Political actors who think there’s nothing left to do than burn it all…
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Two thoughts about “the elites”
Two things I’ve seen in the last hour on Twitter/X really illuminated for me how much “the elites” is front and center to the mess of the American culture right now. I’m also reading The Revolt of the Republic by Martin Gurri right now and have to come to see that it’s all about “the…
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So What, Now What?
As always, Ben’s note is sharp and on the surface feels like the right read of the situation. For someone skilled and informed below the surface, I’m sure there’s a lot more moving parts but taking it at face value its contents concern me. Greatly. I just think it’s time to get serious and see…
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”
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Camping as a useful measuring stick of parenting
For the past two years, we’ve gone camping about five times. Five isn’t a big number but it’s certainly relative. Packing for five (there’s that number) people in the family, kids 5 to .83 years old, is a lot. Getting there and unpacking once we’re home are hard, but it’s incredibly worth it for core-memory…
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Music, man, music.
There’s some word for feeling nostalgia for a period of time or experience you’ve never had and when I listen to the music I like the most, I feel this. Particularly the music of the 1960s and 1970s: I especially get this when I watch live stuff on YouTube. Like just now, I’ve been stuck…
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Priced out of marriage
This post in the Free Press seems true in a way that’s undervalued, and will never be fully appreciated, by the politicians in Washington. I think Wendell Berry and E.B. White would understand this man’s concerns. Berry from lived experience and White from a more theoretical standpoint. Berry lives and farms in rural Kentucky, and…
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Dirt Track Racing
For years, we’ve driven past the Travelers Rest Speedway in Travelers Rest, SC, on the way to Michael and Emily’s. Curious is the perfect word for what it’s felt like to drive past something for years and wonder what it would be like to go to that place. It was incredible. We met Michael at…
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Shepherd: setting sail on his bike!
Shepherd’s first known solo bike ride! What day! O joy!