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28 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It is magic to see the bear. He moves so quietly about, like a lumbering blanket.
I didn't get a good photo this time. Here is 2018: Image
The black bear is mostly a wimp and just wants to eat acorns but sometimes they rip the door off of chicken coops so I hope he behaves
very sad that we cannot be friend to bear

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10 May
I enjoy traveling but I think "travel"-loving culture has done a disservice to us. Romanticism turned consumptive. In elevating wandering it diminishes belonging.
Belonging, creating beauty where you are, is under-appreciated. You must make something worth wandering towards.

And counter intuitively, you will oft do the best wandering where you are most familiar. Travel is a good pastime, but it's something you should try at home, first.
I think this is part of the reason its hard, culturally, to find communitarian places. One is always looking elsewhere.

Creating beauty and places of belonging are acts beyond just the self. I think its worth it to try and create those things, even if only for your own family.
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7 May
Modern rich societies do not properly respect children in large part because they have engineered them to be useless.

I think this was mostly unintentional. It is probably reversible.
if I have some time this weekend I will write

Yes there is age where you can intuit how the world works, yet are prevented from acting upon it in meaningful way.

Instead of an adolescence full of rites of passage, where you attempt to master and accept responsibility, we made it full of... waiting.

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6 May
Ah totally, that explains why its so different in Norw—
You can't coherently make claims like "we need universal childcare [etc] to boost the fertility rate" if the fertility rate in countries with [manic pixie dream policy] are *also* rock bottom.

Think about the problem for more than 5 seconds I am begging all of you.
I don't think I can succinctly but: IMO the reasons people decide to have children are more spiritual or aesthetic* decisions than financial ones, and that alone should be very clear when comparing birthrates over time (booms, busts) and around the world.

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23 Mar
It should be more concerning that the most photographed street in America is illegal to build. It should keep politicians up at night. We should all walk around with a little bit of embarrassment until it is solved.
People in politics speak of "tourism" and increasing it but they do not seem to understand what the words they are saying actually mean.

They don't seem to understand what speaks to people's hearts, what people consider romance, etc. It's all profoundly odd to watch.
I actually think its the opposite. If people built beautiful housing there would be a thousand times fewer NIMBYs.

For some reason the YIMBY people cannot accept that so many people are against new development because new development is deeply ugly.

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23 Mar
If I write and speak with my imagination before my reason, only then do I feel closer to being understood.
I don't want to speak to someone else's reason, I want to speak to their memory.
(Writing is more like thinking than speaking, have you noticed? One of the wonderful things about the internet)
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22 Mar
WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS HOUSE IN LITTLE OLD DUBLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE?

THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOLDENEYE 64 LEVEL

zillow.com/homedetails/10… ImageImage
Skulls in the monogrammed bedroom (not the master). Life alert? Steelers? Is that a plushie? Image
ah yes sarah palin and thy neighbors wife by gay talese.

This is the third story, why is the ceiling so low? Why are half the rooms carpeted? Image
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