Will Rogers

Observant folks know it's only a matter of time before
Crazy Weather comes through your town. Some of us might be getting our crazy weather this weekend.

I deactivated my instagram account for this lunar month. Halfway through and feeling good 🌝

Beware The Gregorian Calendar New Years Resolution
We're in the first two weeks of winter.
The new year has only begun to hint of what it holds.
It's a great time to dream and contemplate and rest.
What can Winter You offer to Spring You?
Your Summer Bod can stand to wait a few months.

Spotify is not loading the new season of my podcast, and while troubleshooting, I realized I am ok with the new stuff not being on spotify. Pleased even.

Spotify underpays artists while funding its billionaire CEO to invest in war.

Spotify sounds like war. War is not my kind of sound.

The current season of my podcast is called "Bro Connection" and it features conversations between me and other men about mental health, career, society, and more. It's called Oregano Shirt, available everywhere except Spotify.

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.

An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

FSA is a tax on people who don't have their bureaucratic ducks in a row

✍️Handwritten letters to members of Congress from their constituents cut through the noise like little else.

Join us on Dec. 18 for International Migrants Day to demand lawmakers act to stop ICE's inhumane assaults on our neighbors:

🔗 www.fcnl.org/letter-lette...

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Encounter with an Ancestor: John Perry Barlow I met John Perry Barlow in 2015 when he moved into the backyard bungalow behind the house where I lived in Palo Alto. My landlord Rob, a die-hard deadhead, had offered the Grateful Dead lyricist a 199...

John Perry Barlow said that his greatest challenge in his final years was to practice receiving love, and I was part of the crowd of people offering him love and care during that time. I wrote about the experience at my newsletter, Clover Finder: story.compostmodernist.org/encounter-wi...

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

What Happened When I Was Inducted Into Baylor’s Most Profane Secret Society Over a few days last fall, I learned how the group known as the NoZe Brotherhood has thrived at such a pious institution.

printing for offline reading: www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

via Secret

Clover Finder A Full Moon Newsletter

I have a newsletter at story.compostmodernist.org, where each month I share a story of eldercare. I just "finished" an essay about John Perry Barlow, and I look forward to sharing it soon.

New moon today 🌚

And now over sixty days with no humanitarian aid into Gaza. Yemen seems to be the only nation-state attempting to slam the breaks on this mass murder.

Just incredible

People are often hard on themselves for not finishing books. I say there's no such thing as finishing a book.

thegriffinlist.com tell your NC friends

It is necessary to modulate
how much we take in
in order to remain effective

feeling jostled by the State of Israel's abrupt ending of the ceasefire yesterday, cycling through my social media feeds and seeing it there, not there, there, not there; is this how de-televisualization looks?

one of my fav tiktokers is on bluesky, @thiiirdperson.com good to see you

im strait ded

"Presume I left it in the most logical place possible," I imagine to myself, while walking across the house, that even if it isn't in the drawer that comes to mind, it's worth assessing whether the drawer is the most logical place possible oh snap it's in the drawer

Introducing me to the roofer, Cuco complimented my Spanish while teasing, "He speaks Spanish, but he's afraid."
I responded, terrified, "No tengo miedo!" I'll constantly have to switch back to English or require translation. Who cares?

He nails it.

checking in, grateful for this space