A Last Time For Everything by Evan Porter
First off – Evan Porter, the author, is a good friend of mine who I’ve known for years. I also…
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Snow is a novel set in Kars, a remote, snowed-in town in eastern Turkey. A poet called Ka returns from political exile, ostensibly to investigate a wave of suicides among young girls from conservative Muslim families. The investigation is the reason he’s there. It is not really what the book is about.
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5 Notes on Visiting Redwood National & State Parks
I got to visit Redwood National & State Parks in Northern California. Here are 5 notes from the trip.
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The Philippines by Lonely Planet
I grew up in the Philippines. I last visited about 20 years ago. So when I saw the latest Lonely…
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7 Notes on Visiting Georgia Veterans State Park
The short version? Georgia Veterans checks all the boxes of a state park…but it doesn’t feel like a Georgia state park. It’s one of the wildcards.*
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Cimarron by Edna Ferber
Cimarron is a western published in 1929, and it covers the settlement of Oklahoma – which was one of the very last pieces of the old frontier to be opened up.
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5 Notes On the Cohutta Wilderness
The Cohutta Wilderness is the largest designated Wilderness area east of the Mississippi river. It is only about a 2 1/2 hour drive from Atlanta, so I have been able to spend quite a bit of time there.
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Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson
I picked up Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson on a lark at the library. It was during the PR hype for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and it looked like a solid book.
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TIL about America’s National Grasslands
America’s national grasslands are basically National Forests…but grasslands. They’re managed by the US Forest Service for multiple use – wildlife, recreation, grazing, scenery, and ecosystem services, but also mining, oil drilling, and gas production. They’re part of the National Forest System, which means they’re managed under a different mandate than most Bureau of Land Management land.
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5 Notes on Visiting an Industrial Electric Motor Factory
Every year, the ABB Baldor-Reliance plant in Athens, Georgia opens its doors to employees and their families.
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Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion
Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion Is possibly one of the best teaching tools I’ve ever seen on the internet. The concept is simple. There have been about a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. We each are occupying one of those lives, but what would it have been like to be another life?
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Pool on Conasauga River
This long, run forming a pool is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river has pooled up before a short cascade.
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Bend On Conasauga River
This bend is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river is slicing across hard, exposed granite.
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5 Economic Reasons for Wilderness
Wilderness has so many benefits. But economic benefits are what policymakers & politicians care about. The USFS put that report in a PDF. I’ve rehosted & reformatted it for easier access for all.
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6 Underrated TV Shows of The Last 10 Years
I like to keep track of the books I read. But I do less with TV. I don’t watch a…
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The best financial advice I can give you is to sell your car
This post from Hanna Horvath is such an incredible piece on the *total* costs of car ownership -> https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/the-best-financial-advice-i-can-give
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Flannery O’Connor on Teaching Literature
In most English classes the short story has become a kind of literary specimen to be dissected. Every time a…
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Ordinary Abundance
What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors – https://ordinaryabundance.com/
