the human has been working from home the last couple days. and every so often. they let me participate in the video calls. all the other humans cheer when they see me. i am the only thing holding their company together
I only just found God. This will be my first Advent and Christmastide as a Christian. This is my testimony.
All of us desire wholeness, connection, and meaning. But I was not raised in a church, and I had never been a religious person. It said "atheist" on my dog tags. I went
Gen X weathered the dot com bubble and the great recession. It came of age on 09/11 and fought an endless war on terror. It keeps funding Social Security and Medicare, but won't see a dime. It quietly gets things done, and it's tired of your shit. ()
My small town rural fire department has a fundraiser. You can tell them you want one of your neighbors to "get flocked", and for a small donation they will fill their front yard with pink plastic flamingos. You can flock someone else to get rid of them. Flock protection is $10.
Do not sleep on tomboys. As the daughters of fathers, whom they bonded with over masculine pursuits, they value men for being men. They are almost always married.
@Gustavus_Carl
She is literally out there running over other countries' women in demonstration of American exceptionalism and they are blackpilling? Sad.
The older I get the more unnatural and dehumanizing commercial air travel feels to me. The product of high time preference forced upon us by a decayed culture which knows no leisure. Given the choice I would rather see the landscape than to fly over it.
You need to be eating at small-town cafes, diners, and coffee shops. Pay cash. 60% of restaurants fail in the first year, and only 20% make it past year five. These are valuable local institutions. Without which some people would rarely get a hot meal. We should not let them die.
The peace you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
I live in a picture-postcard New England village. Just up from the town common. My house was built in 1865. What other people overpay for, for a week in the fall, is how we live full time. But I did not seek this
It is irritating that rural America is flooded with cheap crap imported from the third world via discount and big-box stores. Buying local and buying for life are a lot harder than they used to be.
I need your help. In my dream my immediate family all move to New England, to a rambling multi-generational property close by, where we have Sunday dinner every week after church. And big holiday gatherings. How do I get them to want that too?
@akafacehots
Unrealized capital gains do not exist. They are an estimate of what gains would be if you sold at a given time and are always changing. Democrats are trying to tax concepts now.
You can buy property and have a family, youngblood. You could buy this move-in ready house on 2.6 acres in Cheshire County, and then meet a nice girl at the TLM parish 10 minutes away. If it is really important, you will find a way. If it is not you will find an excuse.
Do not sleep on farm girls, youngblood. Porn brain has you holding out for a dime piece. But get her out of her barn clothes and she cleans up good. If you want to build a future together, she has got two strong hands to help you. You will not find better wife material.
I lost some followers over the weekend, for pointing out that nature is not God. So let me just add that government is also not your daddy and pets are not your children.
Celtic lore speaks of "thin places". Places where the distance between Heaven and Earth is less, and it is easy to encounter the sacred. The mountains and forests of New England are such places.
My mother is going in for surgery this morning. She is having a cataract removed from her eye. It is a common procedure, with a high success rate. But she only has one eye. She suffered a series of retinal detachments from previous trauma in the other. Boxer's eyes they call it.
It is a rainy April morning. Many of you are new here so let me be clear that I am not a farmer, or homesteader, or even crunchy. I live in a small town in rural New England, where I work remotely in financial services. But all those things are all normal here and I am learning.
@jeffreyatucker
@zerohedge
Well I'm so glad we nearly crashed the global economy, causing sky high inflation, drove millions from the labor force, permanently closed 100,000 small businesses, and put a generation of children hopelessly behind on their education...for nothing.
You need to be fixing things. You cannot hire someone for every little problem. Go to a neighborhood hardware store like this, with an old man who has done the same project a half dozen times. Do not go to Home Depot and expect teens and middle aged women to know the answers.
I am a sinner, friends. I do not talk to God enough, and I eat too much, and do not give the way I should. I am too quick to anger, and too slow to loving kindness. Try as I might, I still sin every day. But now I am sorry for it.
The world that was still exists. It is just not evenly distributed. But if you want to return, you must do it in your own life. Because society will not do it for you.
No adventure left in the world? You could settle 5 acres of the Great North Woods, and build yourself a little off-grid cabin. There is no planning or zoning so no one will stop you. You could fish the Connecticut river, and hunt, and pick up odd jobs. Or you could complain more.
Some see the culture collapsing and wonder how we can go back. But the world that was still exists. It is just not evenly distributed. Return in your own life. Society is not going to do it for you.
Everyone is a little scared of what comes next. It feels like it could all fall apart. But if your future happiness depends on a particular political outcome you messed up somewhere along the way. You need to focus on your own life.
I love this barn. I pass it when I take guests up to the Kancamagus. It is on the Russell-Colbath homestead site. It is too big for my property, much more than I have a need for. But I would like to build something like it.
My son turns 21 in a month. I am writing him a letter about being his father, and what he needs to know to live a good life. What is something you wish you had known at that age but had to learn the hard way?
Americans lost confidence in political parties, public schools, courts, organized labor, banks, big business, media and other institutions because they didn't change with society. We need to create robust, decentralized, voluntary institutions.
Be present in your community. As of last night I am on the town planning board. They had someone resign, and when the chair started to ask around, my name came up more than once. I can serve the remainder of their term, then run for reelection in March. Simple as.
I keep seeing talk about "raw dogging" flights. But what about lawnmower dads? No music or podcasts, just the drone of the engine. It is good to be bored. Needing to be entertained all the time is for small children.
Boundaries define us. In New England boundaries often take the form of stone walls. The region has 240,000 miles of them. About 6 linear miles of wall per square mile of land. Built mostly in the 19th century, from stone scattered by the Laurentide ice sheet, found clearing land.
As a parent to a now adult child, there is something about having them back under your roof. A sense of peace and of rightness. He wasted no time in taking over the kitchen. Preparing a crisp skinned honey sriracha salmon, parsnip puree, roasted brussels sprouts, and crab salad.
Palm Sunday service is cancelled, due to power being out in town. We have a fire going to keep warm. I will get the generator out to run the deep freeze. It does not take much to turn an emergency into a mild inconvenience.
@ScottAdamsSays
Drive food prices up, institute price controls, create food shortages, nationalize food production, go full commie. All according to plan.
I finally heard from my son this week. It had been since Thanksgiving. He broke his phone and it took weeks to replace. But he is looking forward to visiting.
Being a father to a son is like watching every mistake you ever made replayed in slow motion. If you are lucky you can
Today we said goodbye to Buccaneer. He was Kat's service dog, now retired, and the very best of boys. We had to wait a month to see the vet, in order to confirm what we already knew. Lymphoma. He needed to be sedated for the examination. We agreed if there was nothing ahead for
@realBob_Johnson
I saw a video clip where she said she was looking for love in the Olympic village, what if she marries a shot-putter and starts minting kings?
My son has gone home now. Neither of us said much on the way to the airport. Each of us aware of the goodbye to come. I hugged him and told him I love him. Then I drove home with a know in my stomach. Wishing that I had said more. But there was very little left unsaid this visit.
At the end of my road sits the historic Fitzwilliam Inn. Built in 1796 the inn was once a stop on the stagecoach line, and later for passers through on the Cheshire rail line. But it has been closed the entire time I have lived here.🧵
@simonsarris
People who spend no time in nature, have no natural sense of aesthetics. So if they have not then studied it formally they end up liking whatever HGTV tells them to.
Men need to be useful. We should work until we cannot anymore. My "retirement" plan is to find important work, that goes undone because you cannot earn a living at it. The best sort of man you can be is one who helps others.