@bethanyh Gosh, thanks for writing this. Prayers for parents, and for you. In cases like this I’m never clear about whether to pray for baby, or to ask baby to pray for us…
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\nChildren aside, I think minivans are great general-purpose vehicles; surprised at the stigma, the strict association with transporting children, and the fact that everyone doesn’t agree with me.
@jabel This is great. (Interesting: I have a correspondent who’s trying to start a Budget-like newsletter among Orthodox parishes. It’s in the air!) Eagerly looking forward to this!
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/99694027","date_published":"2026-10-22T17:26:50+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 17:26","date_timestamp":1792690010,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99693899","content_html":"@JohnBrady Started reading: Haynes: The Fullness of Time: Marking the Day by BIrdsong, Blooms, Shadows, and Stars. It ties into an ongoing fantasy of escaping clock time altogether, though that’s not going to happen with my current commitments. Maybe using @dwalbert‘s solar clock would be a step in the right direction, though it wouldn’t help me to get to my scheduled doctor appointment on time.
\n\n\nWe used to tell time by shadows shrinking or the midday glow over a mountaintop. We called a phase of darkness “cockcrow” and named lively flowers by when they open and close. When working, we may have synchronized a task by singing. We’d notice the quality of the light changing at dusk, and we might mark time at night by the motion of the stars.
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\n\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/99693899","date_published":"2026-10-22T17:23:19+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 17:23","date_timestamp":1792689799,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99645796","content_html":"Now we depend heavily on complex machines and think of the hours as identical abstract units. In the urbanised West today, so much of our world would not function without super-precise clocks. But what riches might we gain from exploring the forgotten art of sensing time by events in the world around us?
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@cjhubbs I especially like the slide-out shelves.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/99624416","date_published":"2026-10-21T16:04:52+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-21 16:04","date_timestamp":1792598692,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99578250","content_html":"@joshuapsteele Pentel Graphgear
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/99560084","date_published":"2026-10-20T15:41:29+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-20 15:41","date_timestamp":1792510889,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99517293","content_html":"@jabel Beautiful. And if your weather is anything like ours, just in time for the chilly nights.
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\nA List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites
\nText-only political news sites:
\nThe first list includes the very nice Kagi News, which I hadn’t known about though I subscribe to Kagi search.
\nHaving failed so far to kick the news habit, I find services like these to be a big help in maintaining control of my attention.
@ffmike There’s an old Calvin & Hobbes strip where someone exclaims “Verbing weirds language!”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/99407351","date_published":"2026-10-17T17:55:18+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-17 17:55","date_timestamp":1792259718,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"73179125","content_html":"Divna Ljubojević - Agni Parthene. I listen to this often.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/09/02/divna-ljubojevi-agni-parthene-i.html","date_published":"2025-09-02T15:51:43+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-02 15:51","date_timestamp":1756828303,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"72249521","content_html":"I’m drifting toward being one of those “Workflowy for everything” cultists.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/08/21/im-drifting-toward-being-one.html","date_published":"2025-08-21T20:17:16+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-21 20:17","date_timestamp":1755807436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69868116","content_html":"Bill Kauffman on artists spurning state sponsorship:
\n\n\n\n\nConscientious objectors who wish neither to wield nor submit to power are as impractical as unemployed poets, whiskey priests, and dandelions.
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The libertarian/anti-statist view has never had much of a constituency, but I’ve been thinking about how rapidly it seems to be losing ground these days.
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