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\n@tinyroofnail Since the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, I figure the puzzlement I feel at the world around me means I’m not wholly misguided. It’s an instinct I learned from the Holiness folks.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99633389","date_published":"2026-10-21T18:46:47+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"18:46","date_timestamp":1792608407,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99623565","content_html":"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
\n\n@jabel The essay mentioned by the writer is here
\n\n\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99566499","date_published":"2026-10-20T17:45:57+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-20 17:45","date_timestamp":1792518357,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99565556","content_html":"We foresee no practical enactment of the concept of enough, but rather submit to the absolute determinism of progress: progress undirected and inevitable. Progress forbids us to stop when we are satisfied. We must go on, adopting the changes of technology, whatever the cost may be to ourselves and our children. But to know how much is enough, and to be satisfied with enough, makes possible an economy and a society properly suited to the world and to our place in this world. It is to be civilized.
\n
Uncle Wendell was mentioned by a Budget scribe out of Missouri
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/20/uncle-wendell-was-mentioned-by.html","date_published":"2026-10-20T17:30:31+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-20 17:30","date_timestamp":1792517431,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99540652","content_html":"@ReaderJohn I’m holding out some hope for the 2030s.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99540652","date_published":"2026-10-20T09:06:44+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-20 09:06","date_timestamp":1792487204,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99518224","content_html":"@ReaderJohn Reminds me of four turnings theory.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99518224","date_published":"2026-10-19T22:35:19+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-19 22:35","date_timestamp":1792449319,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99512007","content_html":"First fire!
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/19/first-fire.html","date_published":"2026-10-19T19:57:40+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-19 19:57","date_timestamp":1792439860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99462743","content_html":"At the top of Green Hill Cemetery. The wonderful stone carver memorial stands to the right and, up the next hill in the distance, stands St Vincent de Paul.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/18/at-the-top-of-green.html","date_published":"2026-10-18T20:45:37+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-18 20:45","date_timestamp":1792356337,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99457901","content_html":"Anyone else notice that people don’t flash lights at oncoming traffic to warn about a speed trap? (I still do.) Has this practice just been forgotten or is it the result of thin blue line propaganda? I remember when country folks and cops weren’t friendly. Not hostile, but certainly not trusting.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99457631","date_published":"2026-10-18T18:36:41+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-18 18:36","date_timestamp":1792348601,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99456628","content_html":"@jabel And now if you go on Saturday you have to check if there’s a home football game because if there is, good Lord in Heaven.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99456628","date_published":"2026-10-18T18:08:53+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-18 18:08","date_timestamp":1792346933,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99456409","content_html":"An unexpected effect of the (not so) new job: I’m rarely in Bloomington anymore. It was such a big part of my life for thirty years. Now I’m there less than once a month. So many cool things there, but now I think, “All the way to Bloomington? In that traffic?” 😄
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99442471","date_published":"2026-10-18T11:56:21+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-18 11:56","date_timestamp":1792324581,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99404294","content_html":"It’s here! Just in time for me\nto shape up a super secret project during my week off.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99390013","date_published":"2026-10-17T10:45:10+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-17 10:45","date_timestamp":1792233910,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99338463","content_html":"And they shall beat their data centers into plowshares, and their Teslas into pruninghooks.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/16/and-they-shall-beat-their.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T13:53:20+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 13:53","date_timestamp":1792158800,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99333109","content_html":"@JimRain @tinyroofnail I found it. Thanks @ReaderJohn for mentioning it. I think a post sitting in my drafts folder was waiting for you to mention this.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99333109","date_published":"2026-10-16T11:58:53+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 11:58","date_timestamp":1792151933,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99218560","content_html":"@JohnBrady Very true. In my little world, I stick with Red Pine and David Hinton translations.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99218560","date_published":"2026-10-14T15:10:11+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 15:10","date_timestamp":1791990611,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99217407","content_html":"@JohnBrady Love Hinton. I’ve read several of his books, though not that one.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99217407","date_published":"2026-10-14T14:52:54+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 14:52","date_timestamp":1791989574,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99212338","content_html":"I’d have a hard time picking my favorite Aesop Rock but this would be near the top. 🎵 Yes, I watched the documentary after hearing it.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/14/thirtyone-years-ago-today-i.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T12:18:10+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 12:18","date_timestamp":1791980290,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99208611","content_html":"@JohnBrady Thanks. My father-in-law had that same experience with his mother, i.e., she thought he was her father.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99208611","date_published":"2026-10-14T11:59:40+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 11:59","date_timestamp":1791979180,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99204006","content_html":"I made the same resolution a few weeks ago. I’m getting better at trusting that inner voice.
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/14/i-made-the-same-resolution.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T10:08:34+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 10:08","date_timestamp":1791972514,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99202934","content_html":"PSA: I will post nothing further about AGI/machine learning. I will read nothing further on the topic (and am purging my RSS feed accordingly). I have other and better things on my mind and heart.
\n\n
@Miraz Thanks, Miraz. I hope she does settle into something. My worry is the fear she may be experiencing. At least if she moved into her own constructed reality, the fear might not be so bad.
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","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/13/playing-along.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T00:34:35+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 00:34","date_timestamp":1791938075,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99147954","content_html":"I’m working from home today so I’m celebrating the return of Pete by playing old videos in the background.
\nRelatedly, I regularly open a streaming app on weekends looking for a movie to watch and end up switching to YouTube instead. I vastly prefer real people just doing their thing, whatever it is
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jabel.blog/2026/10/13/donny-posted-a-good-reponse.html","date_published":"2026-10-13T11:53:54+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 11:53","date_timestamp":1791892434,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99144676","content_html":"@jabel Which of course brings to mind one of my favorite gospel songs
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99144676","date_published":"2026-10-13T11:12:57+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 11:12","date_timestamp":1791889977,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99144366","content_html":"From “Listen Lord: A Prayer” by James Weldon Johnson. The book in its entirety is online here
\nAnd now, O Lord –
\nWhen I’ve done drunk my last cup of sorrow –
\nWhen I’ve been called everything but a child of God –
\nWhen I’m done travelling up the rough side of the mountain –
\nO – Mary’s Baby –
\nWhen I start down...
Wonderful: “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson, via @readerjohn. “I’m lonely” reminds me of Corbin’s discussion of the Divine Sigh that initiated creation. Hadith of the Hidden Treasure: “I was a hidden treasure and I longed to be known, so I created creatures that I might be known.”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jabel/99113096","date_published":"2026-10-12T20:46:04+00:00","author":{"name":"jabel","url":"https://jabel.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2021%2F97100.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jabel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-12 20:46","date_timestamp":1791837964,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99104644","content_html":"Luxury localism: jabel.blog
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