Category: miscellaneous
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Camus on finding respite in the thick of battle
Sometimes synchronicity works in your favor and sends you just the idea you need right when you need it. One may long, as I do, for a gentler flame, a respite, a pause for musing. But perhaps there is no other peace for the artist than what he finds in the heat of combat. ?Every…
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Has it been long enough to forget?
I hope not. That?s different. This western-front business couldn?t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn?t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between…
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It was good
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Bitchun' or Die?
I just finished reading Homo Deus, the second book from Yuval Noah Harari. ?I loved his first book so my expectations were high. ?It didn’t exactly disappoint, but it didn’t leave me as excited as Sapiens. His first book was a look back and this one is a look forward. The basic thesis is that…
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Putting a finger on something I have been sensing
HT to Tim Ferris and his weekly email 5 bullet Friday for pointing out this recent essay from David Byrne on MIT Tech review. I’ve been sensing this for a while now, resulting in more time journaling, meditating and going out in the world to be with other people and spending less time on my…
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Until we meet again
It’s been quite a week since we got home from some amazing experiences, first on the AT through SNP and then in Charleston. ?When we got home late Saturday something wasn’t quite right with our dog, which lead us to the emergency vet early Sunday morning which then lead to a week long stay at…
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Podcast: Appalachian Trail Section Hike part 2
Kendall and I sat down last night to record the second and final conversation about our section hike of the Appalachian Trail through Shenandoah National Park (part 1 here). After the hike, the whole family took a week off (in Charleston, SC – highly recommended!) and it’s been straight back to work for me since…
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Podcast: Appalachian Trail Section Hike part 1
After years of thinking about it, months of planning and too few practice hikes, Kendall and I completed a section hike on the Appalachian Trail a week ago (or as I like to think about it a through hike of the Shenadoah National Park ;-). We both learned alot about hiking, about ourselves and about…
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Bees on Magnolia