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đ§ đ” I happened across a CD copy of local bluegrass stalwarts Tussey Mountain Moonshinersâ 2016 album SHINE last year at the AAUW used book sale. It cost me a dollar. Itâs (more than) good enough to make me feel as if I have stolen from them.
Hypothetical future album title: Self-Preservation for the Sake of Others
What is microblogging for?
Is style a virtue? If so, how?
Scott: Hey, no pointing. It makes me nervous.
Sullivan: I wasnât pointing. I was air-rubbing your teeth.
Ever take a grief nap? I sure have.
Carla: Thereâs a book I wanna read.
Ăa: Me, too. But I finished it.
Anagrams of Stilson Sauder
- adonis Ulsters
- adult rosiness
- arts delusions
- assured tonsil
- Dorian tussles
- dauntless soir
- delusion tsars
- desirous slant
- dinosaurs lets
- dissolute RNAs
- diurnal tosses
- donuts serials
- dour saltiness
- dross insulate
- dualists snore
- duelist sonars
- dust sensorial
- insults soared
- island ousters
- island sourest
- Larsen studios
- Leonidas rusts
- Lourdes saints
- lassies rotund
- lassies untrod
- lassitudes Ron
- laundries sots
- lotus sardines
- loudness sitar
- natures solids
- solarised nuts
- outside snarls
- Rolaids sunset
- raison tussled
- randiest souls
- realist sounds
- residual snots
- resist unloads
- rosins saluted
- Sousa tendrils
- Streisand soul
- sails unsorted
- satires unsold
- solid saunters
- slots unraised
- snarls tedious
- tunas soldiers
- soul tardiness
- souls strained
- sounders tails
- sourness tidal
- stars unsoiled
- steroidal suns
- store sundials
- sudsier talons
- toad surliness
My marginaliaâor at least, a bunch of quotesâfrom The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents (2023) by Lisa Damour
Pretty much everything written in this book about adolescents could be written about any of us (except the course of development stuff and the added intensity and volatility it brings).
I take it that it is normal for an adolescent to behave for a considerable length of time in an inconsistent and unpredictable manner; to fight his impulses and to accept them… to love his parents and to hate them … to revolt against them and be dependent on them … to be more idealistic, artistic, generous, and unselfish than he will ever be again, but also the opposite: self-centered, egoistic, calculating. Such fluctuations between extreme opposites would be deemed highly abnormal at any other time of life. At this time they signify no more than that an adult structure of personality takes a long time to emerge.
Anna Freud is quoted as saying the above in 1958 in the front matters. It is good to keep in mind.
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We measure distance more frequently in units of time than in units of length. Why? What does that say about our culture?
Give and receive. Donât take.
âLove is never any better than the lover.â
â Toni Morrison
Itâs just like humanity to take the spoils of victory and turn them into an idol (Judges 8:22-28).
Even in his biggest triumph, Gideon is deflecting the glory (Judges 8:1-3).
âAs for you, you shall not seal a covenant with the inhabitants of this landâtheir altars you shall smashâ (Judges 2:2, RA).
Sullivan said yesterday that every conversation with me feels like an argument. Thatâs the sort of comment that prompts change in me, I hope!
the third of three poems submitted to the bad poetry competition in celebration of Matthewâs 42nd birthday:
After a party one weekend in Wheaton
(optionally sung to the tune of âMy Favorite Thingsâ)
Come help me clean up the saag and the red dal
Green bits of mucus and loogies in highballs
Moist wet congealments of fatbergs and thongs
Bet itâll take you forever with tongs!
When the turd falls
When the pus dries
Need a napkin bad
I simply wrap towelettes around all the mess
And then I have made a fad!
Round ground pork meatballs
And six chocolate hair wads
Leftover skin tags from yours and my dadbods
Brown chunks of something I donât recognize
Rub it all out with the sweat of my thighs!
When the squits land
When the bowels void
Too much egg yolk through
I simply wipe hankies with ointment galore
And try not slip on poo!
But if we get soiled and covered in feces
Looking like accidents involving Reeseâs
Something you pull from a festering clog
We can still use it as stuff for our vlog...
the second of three poems submitted to the bad poetry competition in celebration of Matthewâs 42nd birthday:
Thoughts on Toejam
Pustule grease between my toes
Oh-so-moist, and in it goes
Sucked down my gullet, slurp yum-yum-yum
How itâll smell when it wants out my bum!
Will I need tongs or strong vacuum birth?
How to squeeze out such congealy girth?
Will it right squish? Will it ka-slop?
Or will it be hard like the stuff in wood shop?
the first of three poems submitted to the bad poetry competition in celebration of Matthewâs 42nd birthday:
Shet
Iâd yet get debt to bet that
if you let sweat wet your tĂȘte at
Brettâs jet set vet fĂȘte,
I fret theyâll never let you and your pet back into the Met.
Thatâs a threat.
Latitude, longitude, aye, aye, aye
If your donât change your attitude, itâs bye, bye, bye
âYou almost have to give your happiness up to accomplish your goalsâ (Mike Tyson).
Welp, that settles it: A single game of Civilization VI on its fastest speed (other than battle turns) took me 10.5 hours. I will never play it again.
Do what youâre doing. Donât worry about the rest.
The first chapter of Judges is all about how most of the tribes of Israel failed to drive out the Canaanites and other non-Israelite peoples from their inherited land. Itâs just like yesterday and Civilization VI.