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January 2025

What's Your Craft?
Woodworking and humancraft have much in common. Where do you find solace
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Don't @ Me!
Taking the oath in the Capitol Rotunda on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Forget Political Science. This is Political Culture. And it's the New-Now-Normal.
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State of Incredulity
What’s the emotion beyond anger, rage, sadness, disbelief, horror, grief, and excruciating loss?
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Discussion: Substack Etiquette
Erotica porn, loving trolls, blocked readers, paid opinions, engaged hate, straight-edge, curated thoughts, narrow minds, open hearts, closed…
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December 2024

Four Years On
Happy Birthday Compass Star Wordsmith. May you live forever. Or until Substack shuts us down.
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A Christmas Carol
Forced into factory work at age 12 to repay his father's debt, Charles Dickens' early hardship etched into him a profound understanding of the human…
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Meaning of Christmas
Authenticity is attractive, "not because it was flashy or followed the rules, but because it was sincere."
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defiance of authority
Gen-X superpower. It’s the force that has kept us adaptable, resourceful, and unafraid to question the status quo. Swinger status becomes us. Who are…
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Gen-X Flexes
The neglected child comes of age. Hold our beer while we fix some shit.
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November 2024

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