Category: Blog
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Music and Protest
The 1960s obviously produced some of the best music during very turbulent times. You have Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez (Oh, Freedom!), Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul and Mary just to name a few. They were very political, but in retrospect we enjoy their harmonies and nascent methods (Jimi Hendrix!). We…
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To Paul: On having a second kid
You called me yesterday and asked: What would you say to me that would help me prepare for kid #2? I think you used the word wisdom: What wisdom do you have to share with me? Bonus question was: What did you do to help Sadie in preparation for kid #2 Here are my thoughts…
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Training with Doug
I’ve started training for a 100k race this November that my friend Doug is also registered for, the Looking Glass 100k. Other than the Black Mountain Monster 24hr that I ran (dropped at 40 miles) I think this is the only other race I’ve registered for in something like a few years. It’s quite fun…
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Shepherd graduates from pre-school
Four years of ‘school’ at Black Mountain Presbyterian weekday school has come to a close for Shepherd. Our oldest kid has given us one of our first big milestones as parents. Sadie said it best on the playground at the after-graduation picnic: He’s going out into the world! Year 1 Shepherd, when you started at…
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Thoughts from my run #2
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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…