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\nKing Harvest
\n\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92324771","content_html":"@canneddragons Thanks! (I’m channeling my inner Austin Kleon).
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"Vacation
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260616-213309348.mp2-m.jpg\")
\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92307805","content_html":"Finished reading…
\nA Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr.
\nWonderful, wistful, lovely book. As economical as a poem.
\n\n\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92188652","content_html":"“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!”
\n
Rocks and Trees
\n\n@ReaderJohn Amen.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"The (Unofficial) Feast of GKC
\n\n\nTo love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
\n
![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/gkc.jpg\")
\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91724362","content_html":"Holy cow! I just love to hear the cicadas’ whirring/clacking. Sounds of summer in Texas.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91701570","content_html":"@jabel Lovely. Paying attention is so rewarding.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"June 6, 2026 - The Eighty-Second Anniversary of D-Day
\nI 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...
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\nWorth your time. Noah Eckstein, Harvard 2026:
“To Thine Own Self…” (Polonius was a real ass)
\n\n\norangejeep.org","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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91540160","content_html":"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. [See, e.g., Graham Platner]
\n“Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law” is the...
\n
Hello, Dahlia! Well, hello, Dahlia!
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/dahlia-m.jpg\")
\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91539872","content_html":"C’est vrai
\nA very David-French-y column (that’s a positive adjective in my personal dictionary):
\n\n\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91406104","content_html":"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?”
\n
Here comes summer
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\n@ayjay 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.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@dwalbert 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.
\n\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@jabel Oh my. Very hard stuff. Stay strong and take care of yourselves while caring for your mother.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@canneddragons He is. And worse.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@jabel True enough!
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@jabel Yet, his pattern has always been to stiff regular working folks.
\nTrump Delusion Syndrome is a real thing, but it’s the precise opposite of what he and his bootlickers say it is.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@jabel 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?
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@manton It really is odd, isn’t it? But good odd!
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@ayjay from the introduction:
\n>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.
\nSo, no thoughtful responses? To your point: “Yeah, duh.”
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@patrickrhone Beatrix has some good parents.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@tinyroofnail @JohnBrady @BonnieRue @miljko – 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 this, about small swift birds flying to the Argentine.
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"@mwerickson (!)
\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%2F2025%2F13%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":"This resonates
\nMatthew Crawford, via Damon Linker
\n\n\n\nCapital 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.
\n
Ah! If only…
\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90584414","content_html":"@frjonjordan – In addition to the teams you mentioned in your newsletter, I will be following and rooting for South Korea in the World Cup. Sonny, you know!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/90584414","date_published":"2026-05-20T19:37:35+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-20 19:37","date_timestamp":1779305855,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90452663","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781982174163/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford 📚
\n\norangejeep.org","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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90157782","content_html":"Praise him in all the postcodes, thinks Ben.
\n
\n’______________________________________________________________________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...
\n
Guy Clark was right
\n![\"Two](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/3d05900ee3-m.jpg\")
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/802484ab6a-m.jpg\")
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/bbbd14e661-m.jpg\")
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\n\n\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%2F2025%2F13%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,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89883799","content_html":"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)
\n
Happy (U.S.) Mother’s Day
\nThis photo of my dad and mom (before she was a mom), captures my mother’s fun and sparkle perfectly (and Dad’s kindness, too).
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2025/mom-dad-rehearsaldinner.jpeg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/10/happy-us-mothers-day-this/","date_published":"2026-05-10T13:07:35+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-10 13:07","date_timestamp":1778418455,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89862988","content_html":"“Childness”
\n\n\n\" … there are these rules that we think of with literature, but in picture books they’re all broken. The main character can be eaten in the middle.”
\n
“What Adults Lose When They Put Down Children’s Books” by Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, May 9, 2026
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89832073","date_published":"2026-05-09T01:34:33+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-09 01:34","date_timestamp":1778290473,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89536123","content_html":"Good Question
\n\n\n orangejeep.org","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/03/good-question-the-pope-tried/","date_published":"2026-05-04T00:44:18+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-04 00:44","date_timestamp":1777855458,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89534434","content_html":"The pope tried to put an end to this craziness several times. He insisted that he did not speak on world affairs as a politician (and still less a global umpire) but as a witness to gospel truths. He made quite clear that he would not be cowed by the Trump administration, even as he reminded the scribes and influencers that he did not pick a fight with the president. And in doing so, he suggested, if subtly, that there was something a bit awry about the endless media obsession with the president. Did everything and everyone in the world have to be parsed by reference to Donald J. Trump?
\n
Listening to Kate and Anna McGarrigle in the backyard on a beautiful May Sunday afternoon after Tottenham actually play well and win. Pretty damn good, mama. “We were like interlocking pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of life.”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/05/03/listening-to-kate-and-anna/","date_published":"2026-05-03T23:56:22+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 23:56","date_timestamp":1777852582,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89402334","content_html":"@JohnBrady Agree about Paris, Texas in every respect. I put Wings of Desire up there with Perfect Days.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89402334","date_published":"2026-05-01T18:21:02+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 18:21","date_timestamp":1777659662,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89389288","content_html":"@ner3y Yes. Minari is another good one.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89389288","date_published":"2026-05-01T14:56:40+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 14:56","date_timestamp":1777647400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89383536","content_html":"@jabel Very good. I strongly suspected Hopkins, but this one is new to me. Thanks!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89383536","date_published":"2026-05-01T13:25:42+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 13:25","date_timestamp":1777641942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89383251","content_html":"Another Anole
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/4c5a31208b-m.jpg\")
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\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/1be6e102ff-m.jpg\")
\nPrickly Pear
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89133324","date_published":"2026-04-27T22:53:23+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 22:53","date_timestamp":1777330403,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89072401","content_html":"@ReaderJohn As is often the case, Hannah Arendt is prophetic:
\n>The fundamental reason for the superiority of totalitarian propaganda […] is that its content, for the members of the movement at any rate, is no longer an objective issue about which people may have opinions, but has become as real and untouchable an element in their lives as the rules of arithmetic.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89072401","date_published":"2026-04-27T02:01:01+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 02:01","date_timestamp":1777255261,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89066804","content_html":"Pretty simple, no?
\nBefore, the Straits of Hormuz were open to international shipping. A good thing, generally speaking. Now President Trump has successfully given Iran sovereignty over the Straits and they’re closed. Unequivocally, not good. The Art of the Deal!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/04/26/pretty-simple-no-before-the/","date_published":"2026-04-26T23:27:06+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-26 23:27","date_timestamp":1777246026,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89055714","content_html":"@ablerism Happy Birthday! It’s my goal to have a birthday at least once every year. So far, so good!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89055714","date_published":"2026-04-26T19:05:51+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-26 19:05","date_timestamp":1777230351,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89055419","content_html":"@mattharwood and Koji Yokush’s acting is so wonderful!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/89055419","date_published":"2026-04-26T19:00:20+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%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-26 19:00","date_timestamp":1777230020,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89033734","content_html":"@dwalbert That Hal! It’s a reminder that even a boy with an unpromising beginning can end up with winning the Battle of Agincourt. Compared to that, staying in the Premier League should a piece of cake.
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