“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” - Yeats “Be careful of those that would fill you with passionate intensity, they are not your friends.” - Kirn

I have spent time looking at the videos posted everywhere of people cheering the death of Charlie Kirk. I think they are disgraceful, and those people will have to come to terms with their hatred, but I will refuse to hate as well. You cannot make me hate. And that is how I win.

Freedom is what every essential disagreement or conflict has been about in the USA, possibly everywhere. Uniting an area as large as USA only works if based on fundamental principles like freedom - because everybody wants some - the problem seems to be when one side wants to define it for everyone. View quoted note →

Choose, commit, compound. View quoted note →

You can just roast a chicken for Friday night dinner. #foodstr

Fancy summer risotto on Corelle (with tomatoes… because so many tomatoes) #foodstr

Probably the last peach pie for the year… probably. #foodstr

Fear has controlled a large part of my life. So, I’m going to bathe in it, play with it, understand it. I’m not a writer, but I’m going to write about it. And I’m going to publish what I find. It’s a topic too easily ignored. Nobody wants to admit they are afraid but almost everyone has fear. I see so much courage on Nostr and and I’m so curious about others’ perspective here. More here soon.