{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Jim Rain","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/JimRain","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"11913","username":"JimRain","bio":"I was old, but I'm getting younger. I make tortillas. Christian. Fifth-generation Texan (Dallas variety). The foregoing is not necessarily listed in order of importance.","pronouns":"he/him","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":42,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/25/11913.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"93664483","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jthingelstad\">@jthingelstad</a> Norway went! And Brazil went home.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93664483","date_published":"2026-07-08T19:16:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 19:16","date_timestamp":1783538194,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93546964","content_html":"<p>Subsidiarity and Repair</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Too many essays about <strong>[name your American institution (in this essay, it was scouting)]</strong> end with the same refrain: <em>It isn’t what it used to be, so I’m leaving.</em> Sometimes, that’s the right decision. Institutions can lose their way, and there are moments when fidelity to conscience requires us to walk away. But increasingly I wonder whether our first instinct has become departure rather than stewardship. Progressives are often criticized for believing institutions can simply be rebuilt from scratch. Yet conservatives sometimes make the opposite mistake: assuming that once an...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/2026/07/06/subsidiarity-and-repair-too-many/\">orangejeep.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/07/06/subsidiarity-and-repair-too-many/","date_published":"2026-07-06T20:26:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 20:26","date_timestamp":1783369619,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93342000","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/roe-abortion-birthright-citizenship-postliberals/\">Two from Cataggio</a></p>\n<ol>\n<li>... imagining an idealized America that never actually existed and then getting mad that modern America doesn’t look more like it is basically Populism 101.</li>\n<li>Postliberalism’s core conviction is that any policy problem can be solved with sufficient ruthlessness. </li>\n</ol>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/07/02/two-from-cataggio-imagining-an/","date_published":"2026-07-03T00:55:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-03 00:55","date_timestamp":1783040140,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93254334","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dswanson\">@dswanson</a> Wow.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93254334","date_published":"2026-07-01T15:16:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-01 15:16","date_timestamp":1782918993,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93217393","content_html":"<p>Archie through the grass</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/120df37fd2-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/30/archie-through-the-grass/","date_published":"2026-07-01T01:04:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-01 01:04","date_timestamp":1782867870,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93202194","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/frankm\">@frankm</a> Yep. Newt was awful for the country.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93202194","date_published":"2026-06-30T18:06:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-30 18:06","date_timestamp":1782842809,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93187554","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn\">@ReaderJohn</a> Such a project certainly would rein in the executive, given this Court’s emphasis on the separation of powers. Why Congress has so willingly given up its authority is baffling.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93187554","date_published":"2026-06-30T13:39:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-30 13:39","date_timestamp":1782826756,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93135525","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn\">@ReaderJohn</a> Re: <em>A Pattern Language</em> as an idea-generator, I was thinking in the shower (other than long walks, the best place for thinking – I wonder if that’s a pattern Alexander noted?) about how the book necessarily is conservative, if you think of conservatism as an inclination to give weight to solutions that time has shown “work.”</p>\n<p>That in turn got me thinking of a great gift my kids gave me when they noted that one must always ask, “For whom does this solution ‘work?’” Often, the answer is, “For the powerful.” But even if If the answer is, “For the majority of people living in a particular time and place,” then that raises the next question, “What encumbrances, if any, should the majority be willing to assume to lessen the burdens on those who aren’t in the majority?” (These are questions that I infer propel much of <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a>’s work.) And how do you arrive at an answer to <em>that</em> question?</p>\n<p>So, <em>A Pattern Language</em> contains, or at least generates, multitudes – from “Where do I put my windows?” to “How do we order our polity?”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93135525","date_published":"2026-06-29T17:38:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 17:38","date_timestamp":1782754708,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93131742","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> Yes, yes, yes. I think this makes a huge difference.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93131742","date_published":"2026-06-29T16:28:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 16:28","date_timestamp":1782750513,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93127507","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn\">@ReaderJohn</a> I love it. It’s been of practical use for a few home-design projects (e.g., how to site a patio and where to place windows in a house addition). But it’s also just terrific fun to dip in and out of. It’s a great idea generator. (Personally, though, I can’t imagine reading it cover-to-cover. I guess people do it, just as some read the Bible from cover-to-cover in a year. But I find both ideas to be daunting.)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93127507","date_published":"2026-06-29T15:04:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 15:04","date_timestamp":1782745485,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93126950","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jaheppler\">@jaheppler</a> “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.” – Willa Cather</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/93126950","date_published":"2026-06-29T14:54:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 14:54","date_timestamp":1782744875,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93104241","content_html":"<p>Finished reading</p>\n<p><em>Nonesuch</em> by Francis Spufford. A ripping plot, fascinating setting (London during the Blitz), spunky (to say the least) protagonist, and real themes about important things. I enjoyed it enormously.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/nonesuch-m.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px;\" alt=\"Auto-generated description: A person stands on an enormous outstretched hand above a cityscape with the title Nonesuch and author Francis Spufford prominently displayed.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/28/finished-reading-nonesuch-by-francis/","date_published":"2026-06-29T03:40:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 03:40","date_timestamp":1782704427,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92846697","content_html":"<p>from Colossal</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/holly-guertin-wool-felting-textiles-fiber-art/\">Animals and Ornament Emerge from Felted Wool in Holly Guertin’s Textiles</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/feltlambofgod-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/24/from-colossal-animals-and-ornament/","date_published":"2026-06-25T00:25:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-25 00:25","date_timestamp":1782347132,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92820828","content_html":"<p>No voice, but I removed my shoes just in case</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260624-125332185.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"Pine and fir trees backlit by a fiery sunrise through clouds\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/24/no-voice-but-i-removed/","date_published":"2026-06-24T17:06:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-24 17:06","date_timestamp":1782320805,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92691430","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/frjonjordan\">@frjonjordan</a> What a great – and great looking – family. Happy to see you consistently sporting a Spurs cap. Welcome home.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/92691430","date_published":"2026-06-22T21:37:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-22 21:37","date_timestamp":1782164228,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92600796","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn\">@ReaderJohn</a> Agreed. One essential condition for the survival of the rule of law is an allegiance to truth. This president and his legal officers have no such allegiance, because they have no ideals. They’re pure pragmatists.</p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https://harpers.org/archive/2023/01/trumpism-and-the-american-philosophical-tradition/\">“Trump’s language is, or seeks to be, performative. He speaks to advance his cause and confound his enemies. To achieve this, he will say virtually anything…. If Trump ever used words to render reality, I never heard it.”</a>. – Mark Edmunson, Harper’s, January 2023</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/92600796","date_published":"2026-06-21T13:00:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-21 13:00","date_timestamp":1782046815,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92497723","content_html":"<p>RIP, Robert Coles</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.harvardmagazine.com/faculty/robert-coles-harvard-professor\">Here’s a sweet remembrance of Robert Coles</a>, one of America’s great champions of children, written by one of my favorite photographers, <a href=\"https://alex-harris.com/photography\">Alex Harris</a>. A Wikipedia article about Coles is <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coles_(psychiatrist)\">here</a>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/19/rip-robert-coles-heres-a/","date_published":"2026-06-19T14:12:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-19 14:12","date_timestamp":1781878341,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92325491","content_html":"<p>King Harvest</p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.mov/5736/2026/3085/playlist.m3u8\" width=\"594\" height=\"1056\" poster=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/frames/1783559-0-072794.jpg\"></video></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/16/king-harvest/","date_published":"2026-06-17T00:01:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-17 00:01","date_timestamp":1781654502,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92324771","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/canneddragons\">@canneddragons</a> Thanks! (I’m channeling my inner <a href=\"https://austinkleon.com/2022/08/08/how-i-make-a-collage/\">Austin Kleon)</a>.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/92324771","date_published":"2026-06-16T23:49:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 23:49","date_timestamp":1781653761,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92317774","content_html":"<p>Vacation</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260616-213309348.mp2-m.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/16/vacation/","date_published":"2026-06-16T21:39:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 21:39","date_timestamp":1781645996,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92307805","content_html":"<p>Finished reading…</p>\n<p><em>A Month in the Country,</em> by J.L. Carr.</p>\n<p>Wonderful, wistful, lovely book. As economical as a poem.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“For goodness’ sake,” he said irritably, “I don’t mean that and you know I don’t, you cagey devil. I mean here, Oxgodby, the friends you’ve made, this marvelous summer, the splendid job you’ve done. I mean the lot. You can only have this piece of cake once, you can’t keep on munching away at it. Sad, but there it is!”</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/16/finished-reading-a-month-in/","date_published":"2026-06-16T18:58:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-16 18:58","date_timestamp":1781636329,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92188652","content_html":"<p>Rocks and Trees</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-014016462.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"Tall pine trees frame a rocky outcrop under a clear sky.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-014016462.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-014115439.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A rocky hillside is covered with a variety of evergreen trees under a partly cloudy sky.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-014115439.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-014123703.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A scenic landscape features tall trees, a cloudy sky, and distant hills.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-014123703.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-133058661.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A large tree is growing from a rock in a grassy landscape with hills in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-133058661.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-133524925.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A large, weathered rock formation is covered in patches of lichen and overlooks a cloudy sky.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-133524925.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-133528533.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A rocky landscape with a cloudy sky in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-133528533.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-133539644.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A large rock sits in the foreground with lush greenery and a tree-covered hillside under a cloudy sky in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-133539644.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2Fpxl-20260614-133705448.mp-m.jpg\" alt=\"A large rock is surrounded by tall grasses and lush green shrubs in a natural outdoor setting.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260614-133705448.mp.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/14/rocks-and-trees-collection-rocks/","date_published":"2026-06-14T23:52:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-14 23:52","date_timestamp":1781481141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92178066","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn\">@ReaderJohn</a> Amen.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/92178066","date_published":"2026-06-14T19:46:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-14 19:46","date_timestamp":1781466361,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92169053","content_html":"<p>The (Unofficial) Feast of GKC</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/gkc.jpg\" alt=\"The English writer, G.K. Chesterton, seated in formal attire, draped in a heavy coat, holds a hat in one hand and gazes thoughtfully to the side.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/14/the-unofficial-feast-of-gkc/","date_published":"2026-06-14T16:24:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-14 16:24","date_timestamp":1781454271,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91724362","content_html":"<p>Holy cow! I just love to hear the cicadas’ whirring/clacking. Sounds of summer in Texas.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/07/holy-cow-i-just-love/","date_published":"2026-06-07T22:18:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-07 22:18","date_timestamp":1780870721,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91701570","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> Lovely. Paying attention is so rewarding.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91701570","date_published":"2026-06-07T14:38:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-07 14:38","date_timestamp":1780843092,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91676698","content_html":"<p>June 6, 2026 - The Eighty-Second Anniversary of D-Day</p>\n<p>I was in the backyard this evening just before 7 o’clock when a squall line blew through. In less than five minutes, the temperature dropped probably 10 degrees, the air — which had been heavy and muggy, a real swampy, soupy gravy — suddenly lightened and...</p> <a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/06/june-the-nd-anniversary-of/\">orangejeep.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/06/june-the-nd-anniversary-of/","date_published":"2026-06-07T00:20:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-07 00:20","date_timestamp":1780791606,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91652308","content_html":"<p>“A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew Walk Into a Bar”</p>\n<p>Worth your time. Noah Eckstein, Harvard 2026: </p><div>\n      <p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_iIA3kaLI?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0\">youtube.com/...</a></p>\n    </div>\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/06/094753/","date_published":"2026-06-06T14:47:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-06 14:47","date_timestamp":1780757273,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91616256","content_html":"<p>“To Thine Own Self…” (Polonius was a real ass)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/authenticity-politics-graham-platner/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=gfile_20260605&amp;utm_content=120233\">Jonah Goldberg</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The older concepts of civic virtue emphasized self-mastery, conquering your impulses to serve a higher cause. Today’s politics treats self-mastery as suspect, a form of fakery or selling out, while asinine self-exposure is proof of depth and authenticity. The older republican tradition asked whether a man could govern himself before entrusting him with power. The new authenticity politics asks whether he seems sufficiently ungoverned to be trusted. <a href=\"https://share.google/P4Fz8rM67SOcLkgMT\">[See, <em>e.g.</em>, Graham Platner]</a></p>\n<p>“Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law” is the...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/05/to-thine-own-self-polonius/\">orangejeep.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/05/to-thine-own-self-polonius/","date_published":"2026-06-06T00:06:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-06 00:06","date_timestamp":1780704407,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91540160","content_html":"<p>Hello, Dahlia! Well, hello, Dahlia!</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/dahlia-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Auto-generated description: A vibrant purple dahlia flower stands tall amidst a garden with surrounding greenery and a pebbled path.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/04/hello-dahlia-well-hello-dahlia/","date_published":"2026-06-04T18:02:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-04 18:02","date_timestamp":1780596143,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91539872","content_html":"<p>C’est vrai</p>\n<p>A very David-French-y <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opinion/hacks-friendship-comedians-relationships.html\">column</a> (that’s a positive adjective in my personal dictionary):</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In fact, as the show [Hacks] illustrates, concentrating on differences and even mutual interests is a bit beside the point. The question isn’t “How much are we alike?” Rather, it’s “Can I appreciate and even love the person you are?”</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/04/cest-vrai-a-very-davidfrenchy/","date_published":"2026-06-04T17:58:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-04 17:58","date_timestamp":1780595891,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91406104","content_html":"<p>Here comes summer</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260602-144215194.mp-edit-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Auto-generated description: A white bowl filled with small, red and yellow cherry tomatoes sits on a marble surface.\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F5736%2F2026%2F4b6f56ced0.jpg\" alt=\"A white bowl is filled with a mix of red and yellow cherry tomatoes on a marble surface.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/06/02/here-comes-summer/","date_published":"2026-06-02T17:19:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-02 17:19","date_timestamp":1780420742,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91343293","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> I didn’t get very far into that article to decide I agree with you. Fortunately, we don’t have to decide to go to his church, we merely have to decide if he’s a better choice for the Senate than The Criminal Paxton (how I alway refer to Kenneth these days). Not a difficult choice.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91343293","date_published":"2026-06-01T18:23:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-01 18:23","date_timestamp":1780338232,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91288905","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dwalbert\">@dwalbert</a> Something similar: twine wrapped around 2 posts to make 2 parallel lines for the plants to grow between. As needed to keep the plants supported, I tie the lines together. It’s a modified “Florida Weave.” Works well.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/uploads/2026/1f87370a2b.png\">orangejeep.org/uploads/2…</a></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91288905","date_published":"2026-05-31T21:55:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-31 21:55","date_timestamp":1780264527,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91273481","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> Oh my. Very hard stuff. Stay strong and take care of yourselves while caring for your mother.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91273481","date_published":"2026-05-31T16:27:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-31 16:27","date_timestamp":1780244847,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91210214","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/canneddragons\">@canneddragons</a> He is. And worse.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91210214","date_published":"2026-05-30T13:15:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 13:15","date_timestamp":1780146923,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91183673","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> True enough!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91183673","date_published":"2026-05-30T00:07:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 00:07","date_timestamp":1780099627,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91182986","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> Yet, his pattern has always been to <a href=\"https://share.google/f8D07Vb9G4jf73G4Z\">stiff regular working folks</a>.</p>\n<p>Trump Delusion Syndrome is a real thing, but it’s the precise opposite of what he and his bootlickers say it is.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91182986","date_published":"2026-05-29T23:45:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 23:45","date_timestamp":1780098307,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91179720","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jabel\">@jabel</a> Certainly true. But are there really no standards of what is and isn’t appropriate – in terms of taste or decorum – for the Office of the President?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91179720","date_published":"2026-05-29T22:40:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 22:40","date_timestamp":1780094424,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91179513","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> It really is odd, isn’t it? But good odd!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91179513","date_published":"2026-05-29T22:35:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 22:35","date_timestamp":1780094156,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91039386","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> from the introduction:</p>\n<p>&gt;Today, however, the main drivers of development are private, often transnational, parties that are endowed with resources and the capacity to intervene that surpass those of many Governments. Technological power thus takes on an unprecedented, predominantly “private” aspect, which makes it even more challenging to discern, govern and direct such power toward the common good.</p>\n<p>So, no thoughtful responses? To your point: “Yeah, duh.”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/91039386","date_published":"2026-05-27T22:16:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-27 22:16","date_timestamp":1779920200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90978434","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/patrickrhone\">@patrickrhone</a> Beatrix has some good parents.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/90978434","date_published":"2026-05-27T00:07:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-27 00:07","date_timestamp":1779840451,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90954326","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/tinyroofnail\">@tinyroofnail</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady\">@JohnBrady</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/BonnieRue\">@BonnieRue</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/miljko\">@miljko</a> – John Graves was a superb writer and naturalist who wrote about the country about 100 miles into the dry line that separates East Texas from West Texas (and, thus the U.S. East from the U.S. West in that territory). The bumblebees to Costa Rica reminded me of <a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/2025/02/12/john-graves-small-swift-birds/\">this, about small swift birds flying to the Argentine.</a></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/90954326","date_published":"2026-05-26T17:13:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-26 17:13","date_timestamp":1779815614,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90953048","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mwerickson\">@mwerickson</a> (!)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/90953048","date_published":"2026-05-26T16:56:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-26 16:56","date_timestamp":1779814591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90707510","content_html":"<p>This resonates</p>\n<p>Matthew Crawford, via Damon Linker</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Capital is concentrated to the point that it operates in quasi-governmental ways, abetted by ever more powerful information technology. Arguably, one of the most important functions of the (actual, elected) government, now, is precisely to restrain and regulate the explosion of unaccountable governmentality in our dealings with outsized commercial enterprises.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TDIzSDMtSbE0YPSSKslIVSjPL8pJUUhKrczPS1GozC8tUshITUwBAB2NDhM&amp;q=the+world+beyond+your+head&amp;oq=the+world+beyond+y&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIICAYQABgWGB4yCAgHEAAYFhgeMggICBAAGBYYHjIICAkQABgWGB4yCAgKEAAYFhgeMggICxAAGBYYHjIICAwQABgWGB4yCAgNEAAYFhgeMgcIDhAhGI8C0gEJMTI3MzFqMGo0qAIOsAIB8QW5Ku4Y4DcM7w&amp;client=ms-android-google&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8\"><em>The World Beyond Your Head</em></a></p>\n<p>Ah! If only…</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/22/this-resonates-matthew-crawford-via/","date_published":"2026-05-22T13:51:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-22 13:51","date_timestamp":1779457864,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90452663","content_html":"<img src=\"https://micro.blog/books/9781982174163/cover.jpg\" class=\"mini_cover\">\n<p>Finished reading: <a href=\"https://micro.blog/books/9781982174163\">Light Perpetual</a> by Francis Spufford 📚</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Praise him in all the postcodes, thinks Ben.<br>\n’______________________________________________________________________</p>\n<p>Praise him on the commuter trains: praise him upon the drum and bass. Praise him at the Ritz: praise him in the piss-stained doorways. Praise him in nail bars: praise him with beard oil. Praise him in toddler groups: praise him at food banks. Praise him in the parks and playgrounds: praise him down in the Tube station at midnight. Praise him with doner kebabs: praise him with Michelin stars. Praise him on pirate radio: praise him...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/18/finished-reading-light-perpetual-by/\">orangejeep.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/18/finished-reading-light-perpetual-by/","date_published":"2026-05-19T00:23:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-19 00:23","date_timestamp":1779150215,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90157782","content_html":"<p>Guy Clark was <a href=\"https://youtu.be/1-QzLIjL1u4?si=J6uDELuGH4aM91jh\">right</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/3d05900ee3-m.jpg\" alt=\"Two slices of toast with cream cheese, tomato slices, and chia seeds are placed on a colorful plate set on a metal mesh table.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/14/guy-clark-was-right/","date_published":"2026-05-14T13:57:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-14 13:57","date_timestamp":1778767076,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90011221","content_html":"<p>Vitex (and a bee)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/802484ab6a-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/12/vitex-and-a-bee/","date_published":"2026-05-12T16:02:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-12 16:02","date_timestamp":1778601728,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90011031","content_html":"<p>Gardenias</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/bbbd14e661-m.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/12/gardenias/","date_published":"2026-05-12T15:58:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-12 15:58","date_timestamp":1778601516,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89986200","content_html":"<p>It works</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Children really only need one exploit strategy: Be as cute as you possibly can be and get people to love you and take care of you. Fortunately, they are extremely effective at that. – Alison Gopnik (H/T to Austin Kleon)</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/12/it-works-children-really-only/","date_published":"2026-05-12T14:38:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-12 14:38","date_timestamp":1778596709,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}