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Suicide by Screen
I read this somewhere, and now can’t find the source. Suffice to say, the insight is not my own. “The process of aging is an increasing desire for comfort and convenience.” For the sake of argument, let’s assume this to be true. What does it say about our current condition? I would argue the general…
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Where Does This Go?
Press pause. Zoom out. Now look around. At your room. Your home. The garage. The town you live in or near. What do you see? I’ve spent nearly three years traveling. Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Washington, New York City, Kansas City, the Andes Mountains of southern Colombia. Morocco – Casa Blanca & Marrakech. You begin to…
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The “Poor Bastard” Rule
You may be familiar with the Hatfields and McCoys. If not, let me recap: two families in Kentucky got into a pissing match that started during the American Civil War and lasted, in one way or another, until a signed truce in 2003. On a state FFA officer trip to Europe in 2003, I found…
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#23 mark manson/Lori Gottlieb podcast notes
Original video: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mental Health (ft. Lori Gottlieb) – Mark Manson podcast Therapy happens outside the therapy session. You go to dance class not to learn how to dance, but to be a dancer. If you’re not dancing outside of class, you’re not a dancer. Therapy: most people come to therapy…
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#22 Kintsugi: The ARt of the Golden REdneck
This is kintsugi. A broken piece of pottery is repaired by welding the pieces back together. With gold. The artistic form of repair is brought to you by the island nation of Japan. Just Humpy Dumpty had taken his great fall there. That boy would be blinged-out now. Get a little kintsugi in ya, all…
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#21 The ride
Instantly awkward, my hands found surprisingly soft purchase on the love handles of a grinning Colombian whose demeanor implied such an interaction was part and parcel of a standard Thursday. This was my first occasion to explore past the roadside eatery whose cheese-filled arepas are the only thing keeping my weight anywhere near an American…
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# 20 The Man’s Prayer
“I’m a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess.” Red Green – “The Man’s Prayer” I’ve been thinking about the power of those few words. Creator Steve Smith’s alter-ego Red Green lived this, and so many other pithy bits of wisdom throughout 300 episodes. If you aren’t familiar, Red Green was…
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#19 DUSTY BOOKSHELVES & A FRESH MIND
Today we discuss the beautiful tragedy of life itself, a miracle so incomprehensibly, unfathomably overwhelming that it must, ironically, be ignored to be appreciated. It begins, then ends. Some stuff happens in between, and we call that “life”. We enter and leave, in most cases, quite helpless. The similarities between beginning and end of life…
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#18 Ozark Wedding
*were it more convenient, my scrawl would be manual. This typeface, this format…I find it anti-septic yet inclusive. These words stand to be judged, like bodybuilders in a line, all cut to the carver’s perception of perfection. It’s like one of those chainsaw art competitions – everyone starts with an identical stump. I can’t explain…
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#17 The Farm Sale
The last rap of the gavel did not echo. What bidders remained were few and stingy, silently colluding scrappers and junk iron haunts mostly, the occasional local Romeo in search of a suitable demo derby car “for the lady” on the odds they run Powder Puff class at the county fair again this year. Think…