“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” —Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783).
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
“Rash judgments are doubly pernicious; they hurt those who form them, and those of whom they are formed.”
I’m neither bragging nor complaining. Mostly I’m just tired. I’ve been tired for months now, due to a frenetic work schedule for the past several months, and a busy church schedule this summer. So I’m not doing much of anything. Heather and I started vacation tired, and four days later we’re still tired. Yesterday we […]
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” Letter to Major-General Robert Howe
This is a garage door near 43rd and Main in downtown Kansas City. Unfortunately this is the first thing Chiefs’ defense sees on their way to work.
It might not be readily apparent from this photo of my dirty engine, but you are looking at an example of very good design. The small sliver of yellow you see is the dipstick. It was handy enough coloring it yellow for ease of finding it among all the black and gray of the engine […]
As far as I know Kaleb coined this verb. It’s a rather technical term, specialized to a particular activity within a specific series of video games. In the Elder Scrolls series you can shoot opponents / attackers with a bow and arrow while ‘in sneak,’ a state of stealthy concealment that provides extra attack damage […]
One of the teens in our church posted after we had our first big rain after the drought. I don’t think he appreciated my humor.
This entire non-window surface of this eastbound and down van is covered in spray paint. The occupants (or, vandals) are endorsing Leonard Steinman for governor of Missouri. The side of the van says, ‘Missouri news media are prositutes.’ It could be that they don’t know how to spell, or I suppose they could just be […]
“I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”