It shares what brought me to Wendell Berry and my top 3 reads:

Jayber Crow
The Unsettling of America
The Work of Local Culture

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It’s a tale involving yes, Wendell Berry, but there’s more: Aldo Leopold, Allan Savory, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Wallace Stegner, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Paul Kingsnorth.

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This essay explores my developing view of the world shaped by the 98th Meridian, the Gospel of Luke, and my dissatisfaction with toxic politics that took me on a different path for improving rural places.

I haven’t had this problem, but I’ve had problems with Venmo in the past and their customer service could not be less helpful.

You practically have to scam their automated phone system to get to a life person, and then the outcome is almost guaranteed to be <shrugs>

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If Mike Leach was still around, he would devote 15 minutes in his weekly press conference to this. And like 10 more minutes to a random Sonny Dykes story.

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Rather than just gripe, I wrote a letter to my elected officials about our responsibility for public lands and a better solution to provide more housing in our nation.

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There’s also a surprisingly large number of people in America who do not understand why a person might want to change their hair color and they NEED you to know that they DO NOT understand. As I recently discovered when dyeing my hair a bold new color for the first time.

@cait.bluesky.social

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Haven’t fully invested yet, but checking it all out. Good to see you, buddy!

For Mental Health Awareness Month, I explore the meaning of the scene and the importance of channeling romantic heroism in meaningful ways.

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This must be a new Adobe update because it just started on me too. It was doing it on 5 page PDFs.