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@JohnBrady Thanks!

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@bethanyh Thanks! I’ll be looking for it.

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The Visitor’s News issue one has been complied and I’ve sent it to the print shop for a test print. Hopefully I’ll be mailing it out this week! I’m going to print extras both to hand out and to send to subscribers who sign up before issue two.

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@isaacgreene Lovely!

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@jaheppler Looking good!

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@canneddragons I think it’s rude when someone sends anything other than a youtube link! With the YT link I don’t have to be subscribed to something. :)

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@tinyroofnail Is the aide de cuisine preparing the pancakes you mentioned yesterday?

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@bethanyh It’s so true. Ours is one of those efficient woodstoves with a catalytic combustor so we don’t actually get a whole lot of visible smoke once it hits 500 degrees. But the scent of the smoke is in the air and I hope it’s cheering for someone in the neighborhood, like it is for me.

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@dwalbert I’ve had a somewhat similar thought before. When you think of notably beautiful places, it seems to me that the careful and even loving attention brought to them is part of what enlivens them. Which also means that even less famously beautiful places can be elevated through careful attention…

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@tinyroofnail I remember you quoting that book before–and now it’s on my reading list. Thanks for the affirmation! :)

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@JohnBrady Thanks, John! I’ll look into that one.

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All fire is the one fire: jabel.blog

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I’ve just started our first morning fire in the woodstove. The lines below from Jack Baumgartner struck me at the time and have remained with me since.

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Downstairs, I start the hot water for coffee, still talking, and waiting, and listening. I stir the coals in the woodstove we heat our home with, remove some ashes and place two mulberry logs on the embers to ignite. This is priestly work and an art near to my heart, maintaining a fire for my family. It is a part of my worship.

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@dwalbert I’d say so! He provides beauty year round and here you let your eye be caught by a flashy out of towner.

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I try to live a somewhat slow life but I don’t have anything on these Budget readers. I’ve just received my third paper and I haven’t even finished the first one yet.

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@ffmike I had never heard of trap streets! Cool.

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Turns out Cybertrucks are like a rock. No, not like that. Like, they sink to the bottom never to be seen again.

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@JohnBrady Delorme was the one I was looking at recently

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@JohnBrady I’m planning to get an atlas for Indiana soon. (If you have atlas suggestions, I’m open!) I’m wanting to move more toward paper maps for my day trips, because why not?

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@JohnBrady Sounds like the Facebook memes of its day!

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@ReaderJohn It seems the Bircher DNA is alive and well, even if the organization is a shadow of its former self. My dad never joined but he was the target demographic. I’ve always been thankful he didn’t live into the Trump era, because he would have been a MAGA diehard.

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Through a series of events this morning, the John Birch Society came to mind. We have a local gas station that (years ago, at least) used to sell their literature. It’s where my dad bought a bumper sticker that read “Get US out of the UN.” Funny that anyone ever saw the UN as a threat.

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@ReaderJohn Well that’s surprising!

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@ReaderJohn I doubt Lawrence County shifted much, though we did have an independent challenger for a state rep seat that came the closest to unseating the R in many years. I suspect that was more about the personal popularity of the challenger and the longtime nonchalance of the incumbent than a blue wave though.

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@JohnBrady Oh wow. Thanks! Looking forward to reading it.

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@JohnBrady The money issue also occurred to me. In 2022 they still had another ten years to go and all the work is so specialized. It would be enormously expensive.

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“A monastery built to last a thousand years.” Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thanks, @JohnBrady

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Really great video from the Rabbit Room on Malcolm Guite and the making of his Arthuriad. I’m looking forward to starting the books soon.

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@dwalbert 😄

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I love Om. I love Om’s “Cremation Ghat I.” I hate it that I think of Michael Scott’s booze cruise dance every time I hear it. 🎵

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Laid two excellent letters into The Visitor’s News issue one template last night. My goal for issue one was at least five letters to fill up the 8 page booklet format and I think that’ll happen.

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@JohnBrady Not yet but I’ve heard USPS is slow right now. In any case, I have your address. 😄

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Over the weekend, The Visitor’s News got its first subscription arriving via the PO box. This one was a friend of a friend, and so a pleasant surprise.

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Speaking plainly: jabel.blog

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@bethanyh 😄 Yes. Our daughter dressed up as momo many years ago when it was a big thing. We’ve been using the mask as a decoration ever since.

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Final count of trick or treaters!

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If you could see my neighborhood right now, you’d understand why I say Halloween is the best day of the year. Hundred of kids, almost all houses decorated and handing put candy. Amazing.

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It continues to be a crazy day with mom stuff but we’re determinedly going ahead with decorating. Nothing stops Halloween in this house! 😄

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@ffmike Thanks! Yeah, I obviously love a whole lot about the internet but I’m trying to make this as offline as possible while still allowing people to connect at a distance.

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@isaacgreene Thank you!

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A reminder to send in your subscription request and (if you want) your letter for The Visitor’s News in the next week if you want to be part of the first issue.

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I had no idea the naval base here provides the oak that maintains Old Ironsides

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Well the web filter must have finally switched the categorization of micro.blog to social networking because it’s blocked on my work laptop now. Boooo!

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My personal definition of animism: the whole dang thing is alive and talking.

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Well it’s about time to get ready for work after a week off. It’s been one of the best vacations of my life–and we didn’t go anywhere. Somehow, and unintentionally, it was perfectly paced. It felt like more than a week long. I got a lot done while also having plenty of leisure. I’m very thankful.

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Had a great time at Dinky’s Auction last Friday night. Huge place with hundreds of people there. Probably six simultaneous auctions happening across the three big buildings. Didn’t buy anything except a fish sandwich and sweet tea. Audio only because half the crowd were plain folks.

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I’ve updated the correspondent section of The Visitor’s News site after some clarifying questions from some friends.

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New project: The Visitor’s News. I’d love for you to subscribe and participate. (In fact, the whole thing hinges on participation!) I’d like to get out a November issue so if you want to be a correspondent, please send in your subscription and letter in the next couple of weeks.

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I am thankful that, in 2026, a few anachronisms still exist in small town Indiana. Ladies and gentlemen, the White Steamer in Washington. Everyone clearly knows each other. Cash only. Menu on the wall with those black press-in letters. Old men at the bar talking about the weather. 10/10

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