“There’s one main message being shared in ten thousand different guises: Who you are and where you are isn’t okay; you should be different and...
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My first brush with Glen Baxter, who died last week.
At a certain point what we want and what we don’t want dissolves into simply what happens. The specific qualities of experience pale in comparison...
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No pressure?
Pretty much everything I read comes via RSS so I’m quite fussy when it comes to RSS readers. I have recently taken Terry Godier’s Current...
Algorithmic anger
I work with a woman who is very angry. All the time. It must be exhausting. Why? Her interface with the world is largely through...
“It’s over, the “buddhas and patriarchs” disease that once gripped my chest, now I’m just an ordinary man with a clean slate.” — Shūhō Myōchō/...
Logs and lawn
Ordinarily I spend one half of the year cutting grass and keeping all manner of greenery at bay and the other half chopping and carrying...
“It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“For both ruin and recovery are from within.” — Epictetus
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“Really, what I’m asking is: Don’t you think our contemporary education system has long needed an overhaul? That our society has long needed to reconfigure...
Too soon?
It was only last November that our beloved Toast passed away just shy of 17 years old. We still miss her terribly. And yet. Here...
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Just wanted to give a shout out to mtk at Quiet Presence who I stumbled across on Kagi’s Small Web. Beautiful photography on Mastodon, Bluesky,...
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Trouble at ‘mill
Work has taken on a rather sour tone of late. The general manager, who is the heart and soul of the place, is on maternity...
