Tom Ruby
@tomruby.bsky.social
CEO Bluegrass Critical Thinking Solutions; Strategic Planner; leadership coach; co-leader of Cultural Debris Excursions
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Peasant
Traveler
Reader
Writer
Localist;
Husband/Dad/Deda
www.bgcts.com
www.CulturalDebrisExcursions.com
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Tom Ruby
@tomruby.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Truth isn't good or bad. It just is.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
Splitting red oak logs today. Largest 300+lbs. I'm a traditionalist, not masochist. 13 years ago i did this with saw and maul. Took 3 months. Love technology. This'll take about 4 days to split the entire tree.
March 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Splitting red oak logs today. Largest 300+lbs. I'm a traditionalist, not masochist. 13 years ago i did this with saw and maul. Took 3 months. Love technology. This'll take about 4 days to split the entire tree.
Good morning.
Try to be strong today, my friends. Just do your best and it'll all be good. Peace
Try to be strong today, my friends. Just do your best and it'll all be good. Peace
January 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good morning.
Try to be strong today, my friends. Just do your best and it'll all be good. Peace
Try to be strong today, my friends. Just do your best and it'll all be good. Peace
Mediterranean Chicken with all 4 kids and grandkids. Joy last night before FiL funeral this morning. Cooked with son. It was great. Cabernet paired well.
December 30, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Mediterranean Chicken with all 4 kids and grandkids. Joy last night before FiL funeral this morning. Cooked with son. It was great. Cabernet paired well.
Good night from Persimmon Knob
December 28, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Good night from Persimmon Knob
After FiL's passing on Christmas Day, family is gathering for Monday funeral. First kids and grands arrived today. 2 more and families Sunday along with 4 nieces and nephews and families. Joy and love amidst sorrow. As is right and just.
December 28, 2024 at 3:48 AM
After FiL's passing on Christmas Day, family is gathering for Monday funeral. First kids and grands arrived today. 2 more and families Sunday along with 4 nieces and nephews and families. Joy and love amidst sorrow. As is right and just.
Granada is a great city to visit. Mountainside neighborhoods. The Alhambra. Breathtaking churches. Vibrant and safe walk appeal. Really excellent food.
December 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Granada is a great city to visit. Mountainside neighborhoods. The Alhambra. Breathtaking churches. Vibrant and safe walk appeal. Really excellent food.
You ought to be Advent maxing. You know it. Do it tastefully and in muted tones. It's not yet Christmas. It's Advent. Prepare.
December 2, 2024 at 4:41 AM
You ought to be Advent maxing. You know it. Do it tastefully and in muted tones. It's not yet Christmas. It's Advent. Prepare.
Mom and daughter 1 made Serbian Pita (spinach cheese eggs in phyllo) and a phyllo cranberry brie custard pie. What a combo
December 1, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Mom and daughter 1 made Serbian Pita (spinach cheese eggs in phyllo) and a phyllo cranberry brie custard pie. What a combo
@jfallows.bsky.social
I love the little Rams uniform. A little Roman Gabriel
I love the little Rams uniform. A little Roman Gabriel
December 1, 2024 at 1:13 AM
@jfallows.bsky.social
I love the little Rams uniform. A little Roman Gabriel
I love the little Rams uniform. A little Roman Gabriel
if you're not carcass-maxing, you're putting food in the trash. I boiled the carcass for 7 hours. Then in fridge for a day. Total gelatin. Pulled all bones. Shocking how much meat is there. Now aromatics & veggies boil all day. Then feast.
It is *so* delicious. It'll feed us for 4 days.
It is *so* delicious. It'll feed us for 4 days.
December 1, 2024 at 1:08 AM
if you're not carcass-maxing, you're putting food in the trash. I boiled the carcass for 7 hours. Then in fridge for a day. Total gelatin. Pulled all bones. Shocking how much meat is there. Now aromatics & veggies boil all day. Then feast.
It is *so* delicious. It'll feed us for 4 days.
It is *so* delicious. It'll feed us for 4 days.
Late season liqueurs cooking in window. 2 jars wild Persimmon. One jar Satsuma orange and one jar Georgia Pecans.
You can do this.
You can do this.
November 27, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Late season liqueurs cooking in window. 2 jars wild Persimmon. One jar Satsuma orange and one jar Georgia Pecans.
You can do this.
You can do this.
Man, every tear you find huge sycamore leaves. The ones who held on the longest and grew biggest.
November 27, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Man, every tear you find huge sycamore leaves. The ones who held on the longest and grew biggest.
Thread on reforesting land.
In 2012 we moved to new house on 15.5 acres. ~6 acres old growth forest. Rest hayed pasture. Started transplanting saplings first year and every year for 6 years.
Now The Meadow is a forest. 3 species Chestnuts including 25 15/16ths American.
70 species of trees
In 2012 we moved to new house on 15.5 acres. ~6 acres old growth forest. Rest hayed pasture. Started transplanting saplings first year and every year for 6 years.
Now The Meadow is a forest. 3 species Chestnuts including 25 15/16ths American.
70 species of trees
November 19, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Thread on reforesting land.
In 2012 we moved to new house on 15.5 acres. ~6 acres old growth forest. Rest hayed pasture. Started transplanting saplings first year and every year for 6 years.
Now The Meadow is a forest. 3 species Chestnuts including 25 15/16ths American.
70 species of trees
In 2012 we moved to new house on 15.5 acres. ~6 acres old growth forest. Rest hayed pasture. Started transplanting saplings first year and every year for 6 years.
Now The Meadow is a forest. 3 species Chestnuts including 25 15/16ths American.
70 species of trees
Sunset from the creek stand at Angel Hill Farm this evening.
November 18, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Sunset from the creek stand at Angel Hill Farm this evening.
Boccadasse, Genoa, Italy
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Boccadasse, Genoa, Italy
Inside the bato of this dead Sycamore to the left of the stand I'm sitting in rn is a healthy clump of Chanterelles. They're about 15 ft up the tree. Too bad. They look so good.
November 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Inside the bato of this dead Sycamore to the left of the stand I'm sitting in rn is a healthy clump of Chanterelles. They're about 15 ft up the tree. Too bad. They look so good.
Annecy and Lyon are delightful, off the beaten path places to visit in France. Here are pictures of Château Menthon and the island castle in Annecy. Also some doors of Lyon and the interior of Notre Dame de Fouvriere.
I'm leading an intimate small group (6 guests) Excursion in May.
Hope you'll come.
I'm leading an intimate small group (6 guests) Excursion in May.
Hope you'll come.
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Annecy and Lyon are delightful, off the beaten path places to visit in France. Here are pictures of Château Menthon and the island castle in Annecy. Also some doors of Lyon and the interior of Notre Dame de Fouvriere.
I'm leading an intimate small group (6 guests) Excursion in May.
Hope you'll come.
I'm leading an intimate small group (6 guests) Excursion in May.
Hope you'll come.
Here is a piece i wrote back in Jan 2020 with some modest predictions of what we can expect in 2030.
I think i hit some nails on the head and I missed perhaps the biggest issue, the TFR collapse.
What do you think?
bgcts.com/what-to-expe...
I think i hit some nails on the head and I missed perhaps the biggest issue, the TFR collapse.
What do you think?
bgcts.com/what-to-expe...
What to Expect in 2030
Its always easy to look back and say, "Yeah, we should have seen that one coming..." Stunning how few people who were professionally studying the Soviet Union for a living saw its collapse. Yet all th...
bgcts.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Here is a piece i wrote back in Jan 2020 with some modest predictions of what we can expect in 2030.
I think i hit some nails on the head and I missed perhaps the biggest issue, the TFR collapse.
What do you think?
bgcts.com/what-to-expe...
I think i hit some nails on the head and I missed perhaps the biggest issue, the TFR collapse.
What do you think?
bgcts.com/what-to-expe...
Truth isn't good or bad. It just is.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
November 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Truth isn't good or bad. It just is.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
Truth doesn't change based on the rank of the recipient.
If you can't state the evidence that would change your mind, you don't care about truth.
Love your neighbor; no caveats.
Goodness breeds goodness.
Travel is fatal to bigotry & prejudice.
If you don't already, I recommend following @jfallows.bsky.social and reading his Breaking the News substack.
Here is a podcast discussion we had back earlier this year as the first of two discussions. I'm thankful for our long friendship.
fallows.substack.com/p/america-is...
Here is a podcast discussion we had back earlier this year as the first of two discussions. I'm thankful for our long friendship.
fallows.substack.com/p/america-is...
‘America is Very Purple’: Personality and Place Across the American Landscape.
The country is complicated. In an era of simplistic "Red State / Blue State" polarization, three different approaches to this central, murky, but inescapable truth.
fallows.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
If you don't already, I recommend following @jfallows.bsky.social and reading his Breaking the News substack.
Here is a podcast discussion we had back earlier this year as the first of two discussions. I'm thankful for our long friendship.
fallows.substack.com/p/america-is...
Here is a podcast discussion we had back earlier this year as the first of two discussions. I'm thankful for our long friendship.
fallows.substack.com/p/america-is...
The entire world and all activities are an interconnected venn diagram
...to live in a world of radical interconnection, a world in which nothing stands alone, nothing is ever only itself. And yet everything, in that vast network of mutual meanings, is allowed to remain exactly itself.
(From an article on Sharon Olds)
(From an article on Sharon Olds)
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
The entire world and all activities are an interconnected venn diagram
This is so true.
Any bit and any non practitioner can tell you what to do. But you have to actually do it and most that tel you what to do aren't practicing. Follow those who show you how to do something for yourself.
Keep it up Sim.
Any bit and any non practitioner can tell you what to do. But you have to actually do it and most that tel you what to do aren't practicing. Follow those who show you how to do something for yourself.
Keep it up Sim.
Less abstraction, more action. Too many folks out there with great ideas are chasing concepts. Test it. Prove it. Repeat it. Share it.
November 18, 2024 at 1:30 AM
This is so true.
Any bit and any non practitioner can tell you what to do. But you have to actually do it and most that tel you what to do aren't practicing. Follow those who show you how to do something for yourself.
Keep it up Sim.
Any bit and any non practitioner can tell you what to do. But you have to actually do it and most that tel you what to do aren't practicing. Follow those who show you how to do something for yourself.
Keep it up Sim.
Forests mimic cathedrals. Cathedrals mimic forests. God created one. God inspired the other. We should ponder the similarities. We should give thanks for both. We should regenerate our great woods. We should build great churches anew like our forebears did.
Together.
Together.
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Forests mimic cathedrals. Cathedrals mimic forests. God created one. God inspired the other. We should ponder the similarities. We should give thanks for both. We should regenerate our great woods. We should build great churches anew like our forebears did.
Together.
Together.
Serbian village life 100 years ago. Children tended livestock. They were poor relative to today. It was like this in Italy, Lebanon, Japan, and Argentina.
Could we relearn to live this way if circumstances necessitated it?
bgcts.com/restored-film-…
Could we relearn to live this way if circumstances necessitated it?
bgcts.com/restored-film-…
https://bgcts.com/restored-film-…
November 18, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Serbian village life 100 years ago. Children tended livestock. They were poor relative to today. It was like this in Italy, Lebanon, Japan, and Argentina.
Could we relearn to live this way if circumstances necessitated it?
bgcts.com/restored-film-…
Could we relearn to live this way if circumstances necessitated it?
bgcts.com/restored-film-…
Made Mugolio this fall. Fermented pine/spruce syrup. Packed green cones in sugar and let sit for 2 months. Makes intense syrup. Used a few tablespoons in chicken goulash tonight was delightful. 10/10 simple. Free cones everywhere in spring/summer. Win win.
November 16, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Made Mugolio this fall. Fermented pine/spruce syrup. Packed green cones in sugar and let sit for 2 months. Makes intense syrup. Used a few tablespoons in chicken goulash tonight was delightful. 10/10 simple. Free cones everywhere in spring/summer. Win win.