Epiphytes at Forsyth Park

“Grand Lady on the Bay”

Six Pence Pub

Happy dog • It’s “walk around town” day. Someone is excited!

I’m trying out different options for posting some small photo albums online. I may eventually switch them to the other site, but to start, I uploaded some photos from Jekyll Island to an album here, also available through the navigation menus. 📷

A morning with the Mandelstams is never a bad start to the day 🙂☕️📖

I’m going to be spending a significant amount of time in the next month or so trying to button things up on this site. That means mainly trying to figure out a theme for the site that works for me, with links to pages that work for me, and a cleaner interaction with the bookshelf function. I am not off to a good start today 🤓. Honestly, there’s a good chance that I leave micro.blog all together. My interaction with it has been at least two parts stress for every one part benefit. In fact, I found creating my own standalone website to be no less than 10x easier—and more fun. So it might be time to put all my clunky web efforts into that basket. But I’m not giving up yet. I do believe in what the folks here are trying to do. It just might not be for me. We’ll see. In the meantime, here’s Jack:

Finished Reading: The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice by Wendell Berry 📚

To the negative reviewers out there, I would concede that it is perhaps not his best writing. But I expected something hard-won and difficult to face, which is to say, the truth. And that is exactly what I found.

There is a “history that both divides us and unites us,” and it is a history that is “complicated enough, questionable enough, and interesting enough to keep us reading and writing, asking and answering, talking to one another, and thus enlarging the possibility of friendship among us.”

More friendships and hard truth, please; fewer enemies and easy divides.

Espresso martini at Ardsley Station