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To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2

Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.

a week ago 9 votes
Vikings, Origami, and New Mexico | Friday Footnotes #1

What are the things that enrich your life?

2 weeks ago 12 votes
Orson Welles as Falstaff on Late Night TV

This post is in the Notebook - my digital workshop for anecdotes, links, excerpts, sketches, lists, and anything else I want to explore in brief, revisit later, or post for reference.

a month ago 16 votes
Who are the role models for the rest of us?

Converted from a Note 12/9/25

a month ago 17 votes
Castles in the Sky's Seven Most Underrated Essays

A look back to celebrate my son being ~7 days old

a month ago 21 votes

More in life

creatures of temperament

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:

13 hours ago 3 votes
Love's Inevitable Gravity

The Sacred Archaeology of Desire

21 hours ago 2 votes
What Happened to the Celebrities?

Something has changed in the culture

14 hours ago 2 votes
Communism and industrial imperialism

I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the global criminocrats to impose on the Russian people their long-term authoritarian-industrial agenda of dispossession and enslavement.

4 hours ago 1 votes
ringfencing my self

I remember reading somewhere that just few decades ago we lived in small communities, unconnected by the internet. We would only need to cope with the happenings of this small community, and...

yesterday 4 votes