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@joshuapsteele What if they revived Martinmas instead? Just change the conversation.

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@jaheppler Especially nice with the — is that a windmill behind it?

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@ablerism I could live content in the knowledge of their existence if I were permitted not to have my engagement continually boosted.

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@cjhubbs “everybody” is a little presumptuous.

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@jabel Somewhere I have a book of old Celtic prayers to accompany daily mundane acts, like milking the cow and sweeping the floor. Does the prayer make the acts holy, or recognize an existing holiness, or merely assign it mentally? The way I think of it is as parallel to the observer in quantum mechanics: the potential for holiness has always existed, awaiting an observer to recognize it and make it so. The assignation makes it holy in an external and “true” sense. (But this is what happens when I spend the year reading Iain McGilchrist and 8th-century Chinese poetry.)

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@joshuapsteele Dinner.

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@isaacgreene I have a couple of times had one overwinter here. My guess is with climate change (and bird feeders)they are more likely to stop short of Florida or the Gulf and try to overwinter in the southeast. Don’t know how well it goes for them, though.

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A pair of orioles just stopped by the window feeder. Migrating? What beautiful birds. (The cardinal is giving me the stink eye as I type that.)

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@tinyroofnail You can’t do much better if you are looking for inspiration.

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@JohnBrady In the early ’90s the band They Might Be Giants had an answering machine set up where you could call and hear a newly composed song every day. Same principle but more fun.

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@isaacgreene Lovely. Is this work originally for guitar, or has it been (re)arranged?

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@JohnBrady Same.

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@JohnBrady @jabel It looks like it belongs in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The fieldstone is beautiful.

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@JimRain oh, I should have known the Eakins.

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@JimRain Sergeant?

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@JohnBrady Quick search of the internet found a suggestion that you might boil the syrup to a temperature higher than the toaster and soften it with xanthan gum and corn starch. The ingredients list is not inconsistent with that approach. I have to admit it’s an interesting chemistry problem.

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@jabel I love that I don’t have the first idea what you’re talking about. 😀

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@JohnBrady The home manufacture of inherently industrial products has always struck me as wrong headed. Just make muffins, right? Though I did once take leftover pie pastry and make little jam filled squares that were basically pop tarts. But that was glorified frugality.

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I feel pretty good about my votes for Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors.

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The less said about the rest, the better.

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I pointed out to my wife this morning that if we had a hog, we could fatten him up on the neighborhood jack o’ lanterns.

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Apparently we are not getting a hog.

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I bought all my Halloween candy from the Asian grocery this year. Just to mess with the little tykes.

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\"Various

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\"Five

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@isaacgreene True, but you said costumes. To actually dress up as algorithmic social media would be genius.

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Regarding the problem of small, local businesses being bought out by private equity firms. Would it be possible to build a sort of Green Bay Packers version of private equity (private, not tax funded), in which investment was open only to people within a particular, small geographic area? So that if a...

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@davoh That sounds like a really interesting class.

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@isaacgreene I want a visual on these. Zero points for generating them with AI.

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@tinyroofnail honestly it looks like #1 is about to whack #2 for messing with his piano…

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@JohnBrady Tomorrow morning I have to be outside at the craft market setting up my booth an hour and a half before it will be light enough to really see which colors are which. I’m with you, I’ve had enough of DST.

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@todd An actually private conversation should be held in person next to a sizable fountain. Less chance of accidentally adding a journalist to the chat.

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Empty trail, alone. St. Luke’s summer.
\nGold leaves still on river-mirror, gold leaves
\nBright against blue sky. The sun too strong
\nThrough broken roof—this crumbling tree-world shelter.
\nI write my poem perched on crackling bones.

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@jaheppler Always a great feeling.

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@JimRain Yeah, somehow “piano tuner” grabs me. Thanks for the recommendation.

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This harvest moon—or hunter’s moon. Who remembers?
\nHangs on into autumn daylight, faded glory
\nBlurred by trails of jet planes, ancient choreography
\nLost in busy coming and going.

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Seeing this I immediately understood the 1908 reference to “hp” but had never heard of health points or hit points. NB I was minus sixty-three in 1908, but I swear the Edwardians make a hell of a lot more sense to me than you people do.

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A woman from Raleigh, N.C.,
\nIn the interest of transparency,
\nTold me all that she knew,
\nWhether fictious or true,
\nWhether trivial or vital—
\n        and then,
\nWhen at last she had finished,
\nHer store not diminished,
\nShe started all over again.

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I told him that it was okay
\nIf he had nothing left him to say,
\nBut it seemed that he’d rather
\nGo on with his blather
\nUntil his tongue rotted away.

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Doug must have had the night off.

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So I checked my Amazon “About You” profile, which I read knows all sorts of crazy personal things about people. I use Amazon almost exclusively for business supplies and occasional add-ons so basically it knows I am a technologically fussy artist with a dog (omg wtf right?) and nothing I have not posted...

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A “country syllabub,” from Eliza Leslie, 1837:

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Mix half a pound of white sugar with a pint of fine sweet cider, or of white wine; and grate in a nutmeg. Prepare them in a large bowl, just before milking time. Then let it be taken to the cow, and have about three pints milked into it; stirring it occasionally with a spoon. Let it be eaten before the froth subsides. If you use cider, a little brandy will improve it.

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“Let it be taken to the cow” would be a good title for a cookbook. Or a folk-rock album.

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I am reading this. It is a good story in a lively translation. I am enjoying the intellectual act of reading it. But the book as physical object is one of the sorriest and most pathetic excuses for published material I have ever paid money for. The paper is thinner and coarser than some newsprint I have...

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Beneath insistent chirping of a cardinal
\nFrom autumn-bare branches, cold-fluffed morning
\nThis dull reverberation of wood and metal,
\nTearing down one half-lived house, building another.

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I should soon have been bankrupt in business in 1884 if the public temper then had been like it is now—grasping, hustling, competitive…. Nobody asked for an estimate—indeed there was a fixed price for all the\nnew work that was done. The only chance for me to make more profit would have been by lowering the quality of the output; and this the temper of the men made out of the question. But of profits I understood nothing. My great difficulty was to find out the customary price. The men didn’t know. I worked out long lists of prices from the old ledgers, as far as I could understand their technical...

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One great thing about using powdered milk paint for frames is that I can mix up only the two or three teaspoons that I need at a time and minimize waste. Another great thing is that to get 4-oz. jars for mixing such small amounts, I have to make a lot of pimiento cheese.

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Hosing out the garbage dumpster this morning I thought, “M is for maggots!” and found myself composing a sort of Young Victorian’s Guide to Pestilence.

\n

A is for ANTS, that march in formation,
\nRavage our picnic and consume our collation.

\n

B is for BEDBUGS, that nip in the night—
\nSo shake out your mattress, and...

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If people go down to the end of the town, well, what can anyone do? Not much, it seems. Not much at all.

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Not knowing what to choose from my fall CSA last week I got triple green tomatoes and this morning made green tomato marmalade from Putting Food By (3d edition, 1982), which may be over the years my most-consulted cookbook. Lemon makes it gel; the tomato gives an earthy undertone.

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I posted a page of frequently asked questions about my carving for those who can’t come to shows in person to ask them.

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Suggested listening for October: The first season of RKO’s The Shadow, starring Orson Welles. (And in case you find yourself wondering, Blue Coal really was blue).

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Yesterday was the equinox and whoop-de-do for astronomy, but if you think of “day length” like any sensible person who just wants or needs to do stuff outside, you would use not sunrise and sunset but first and last light: something like civil twilight. By that standard, we won’t have equal day and night...

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“The Country of Marriage” (7”x12”) titled after Wendell Berry’s 1973 book of poems. (The birds are modeled on sandhill cranes, so I should maybe have found a title from Aldo Leopold?) N.B. the frame is meant to evoke sunset and autumn leaves, not to go with your décor. Thanks for supporting etc.

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