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Ivan Kramskoy, "Inconsolable Grief" (1884)
[Vatican Museum's Russian collection]
Piero della Francesca, "Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza" (1465-66) ~ Federico was one of the great Renaissance soldiers but he loved & grieved his late wife so much he had this portrait made so he could take it wherever he went on campaign
This very moving discussion with @FloraBaker on the loss of her parents with @GriefDreams is one of the best podcasts I have heard this year & if you have a friend going through the loss of a loved one, this will help you to better support them

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e16…
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Seeing a lot of expressions of concern for "The Troops" from the very same people in my timeline who promoted the Iraq War, the Afghan War (Year 19), Operation Syrian Freedom, and who rebuked Trump for not bombing Iran ... many principled norms being whithered, now, thankfully.
Remember that @TheAtlantic supported "The Troops" so much that it had David "Axis of Evil" Frum write this hit piece on Tulsi Gabbard, who, before she was accused by Hillary & Co of being a Russian agent, served in a a Medical Unit in Balad & remains a serving US Army reservist
One of the strangest parts of the last 20 years has been the memory-holing of Iraq & Afghanistan. To some degree, unless you or your loved ones were in it, it probably is an event worth memory holing, really. But no one who pushed it suffered...just the killed & the wounded.
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Apropos of nothing in particular: you have to have a certain income & security to afford (and a tendency to idolatry) to be "inspired" by politics. Most people are surviving & want security & order in their lives. People vote defensively & realistically: prudential 'least worst'
This is actually the hope for pluralistic constitutional states: most people vote defensively and not ideologically. Most normal people have good friendships with friends with different politics or religions or whatever, if they have ever really discussed such things.
Anglophone countries are often criticised by their resident 'betters' for their political apathy (Australia had to make voting compulsory to compel interest) but there are worse things than ideological apathy if you look over the 20thC. You can be too 'politically engaged'.
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Not just rural but all post offices and public libraries should be defended by anyone wanting to conserve the nation state. They are vital gathering places esp in country areas. (Yes they are much more important than wherever you code or whatever you do.) theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-w…
If there was list of things that conservatism in practice exists to conserve, post offices esp in rural areas - like old churches, war memorials, the ovals, local arts/crafts, allowing dogs in cafes, tweed as formalwear etc - would be at the top of the list. Not your 'freedom'.
Rural post offices are wonderful. Not a big one here for personal stories but when I was deployed 'over there', the Bowral post office was very good to my late parents, whose very helpful staff would help my parents post large 'care packages' for the benefit of me & esp my troops
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