thatonenutmeg.bsky.social
Retired woodworker/writer/Nuclear Physicist interested in Science, publishing and the far horizons of Human knowledge.
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I'm inclined to keep it short. Not a book. Not a booklet. Not even a post on threads. "Live your anger! Push yourself back from your screen, put on a coat and go out to your local small business and buy from your neighbor. I bet those craft bakers weren't invited to the inauguration. '
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Some of us do start conversations randomly. Some of us are even the transgressive sort that start conversations on elevators. I have made long term friends with random people I started a conversation with. I wonder at the cohort group on which Dr. Templeton's work is based.
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That grace might look like refraining from arguing with an obviously emotional outburst. these folks are feeling more fear than you or I and we are feeling plenty. At this point I question adding stress to the wider conversation by expression revulsion, disgust or fear of unrealized effects. Facts.
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cutting through to the heart of it: Hegseth et al are sent up to annoy Dems/display power. Nero made a horse a senator. Qualifications don't matter. race doesn't matter. Gender doesn't matter. Power matters. Owning libs matters. Name the monster to defeat it.
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Watching branches and sometimes whole trees fall in the stiff breezes of winter, I began to wonder why the Northeast isn't covered 12 feet deep in wood. This life form is one of hundreds who do a wonderful job of eating the wood such that it decomposes to the soil for the benefit of the trees near.
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This energy spent trying to get a leg over people we might not understand is squandered in useless pursuit of some amorphous ideal of how the collective we ought to live. Spend that time thinking about how the singular me ought to live, why I think that and why do I care what others do.
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It appears from here that this is not about cooking vs ordering out. I think this is more about different generations and backgrounds fighting with or shoring up what each individual learned a good woman or man to be. Mea Culpa, until recently I denigrated in my mind any man who can't change a tire.
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It is a privilege to see so much creative energy in such a short time.
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So many pieces of mass communication are just noise. As the poet said. "Please don't dominate the rap Jack if you don't have something to say."
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Socrates famously said" an unexamined life is not worth living." I am aware that I bring all of my life, myself to the source I encounter. It seems a good idea to default to mistrust if the source is telling one something that fits well with ones own beliefs and bias.
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The Poems of Robert W Service convinced me that poetry is not the realm of late teenage girls. It is able to turn to tragedy, humor, masculine energy and the horror of a society engaged in war. This led me to the poems of Richard Brautigan and then Trout Fishing in America.
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And contains more truths extracted from parables than Newt could get out of the facts of history.
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Good start! I would be more sanguine if the same basic information hadn't been available for 2300 years. Aristotle was terrible at physics but his command of rhetoric was nonpareil.
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My favorite writer has found she produces better by palate cleansing writing two days a month. She has recently finished the ninth book in a cozy women's fic series. Her palate cleanser was an noire urban fantasy with a wise cracking unreliable narrator.
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There is beauty in your home if you make it so.
Look for the beautiful in the image in your bathroom mirror. See how every aspect tells a story about how you got here.
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Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco both armed me against conspiracy/esoteric thinking and gave me sanction to use higher language as i write.
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You said you wouldn't bring up the size of my nose!
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Inefficiencies in processing information give us time to be thoughtful. If we value thoughtfulness we should be wary of automation tools that promise efficiency.
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Fundamental misunderstanding. Menno Simons was an outstanding left-handed wing before he retired from the Habs to found a religious sect. It was an insider compliment.
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I recommend a couple of authors that will let you languish in Erewhon for a time without fairy smut or Hyperborean sword violence. PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie stories or Blandings castle or really anything he wrote about an England for which there was never a Great War.
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I think Parger U has a course called Ignorance through research....