This is framed quote that’s been hanging on my family’s walls since sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. It’s way more positive than the other things I was thinking of posting in these dark times…
Figure 1: “Present Duties” by William Penn paraphrasing Jesus is in fact not copyrightable, Charles Scribners’s Sons claims c.a. 1897 notwithstanding.
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.
That is all.
Hiking yesterday in the Shenandoah Valley I discovered that I was on part of “Morgans Road”, which is a road George Washington had built into the hills to allow his army to retreat from the British in case things got really bad. “George Washington Planned To Sleep Here If Things Got Really Bad”. That was enough at the time of the bicentennial (1976) to put up another George Washington marker.
This includes a longish list of Washington sites I’ve run across, including a couple with family connections.
Figure 1: “George Washington Planned To Sleep Here” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Below is some text from Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, where the people mockingly pledge loyalty to the Russian King (Tsar)
King Dodon, a lazy and gluttonous ruler, is greatly worried by his warlike neighbors.
It seems the Kremlin’s website is having some issues right now…
Figure 1: “Kremlin Website, Nothing To See Here, Move Along” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
From Eagles Rock you can look back east and see the Massanutten range and pretty much all of Shenandoah National Park. From Tibbets Knob there is a nice view of a valley and “Big Schloss” which is a rock formation and the destination of another popular local hike.
Figure 1: “But is it art?” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Harpers Ferry: a quaint little town, vegan restaurants, a national park, Appalachian Trail headquarters, great place to hop a train to DC or Pittsburgh, a Kansas album cover or a great place to start a civil war? It’s all in how you look at it, who’s looking, and when.
This is a picture I took on a hike above the town on Loudoun Heights Saturday and the painting of John Brown in the John Brown museum.
Figure 1: “Harpers Ferry” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. A snatch of a poem my grandmother used to quote about finding meaning in work came to mind: Oh, you gotta get a glory In the work you do; A hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint, or tell a story, Sing, or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the job lacks soul. Berton Baley Even Google and Duck-Duck Go don’t know much about it, so here it is in my grandmothers handwriting.
I watched the Super Bowl last night, in which a second Ohio team just missed a national championship in a year. There is no joy in Porkopolis. I don’t know any good football poems, but…
Figure 1: “Joy in Mudville” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
The Iliad and Dr Seuss have nothing to say to us today. “One fish, two fish”? Really. Recent translations of liner-A tablets reveal that it was a faceBOOK post that launched 1000 ships.
Figure 1: “Oracle headquarters, Delphi, Greece AUC MMDCCXLII” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Today was the day I made the choice to live for an entire work-day on an IPv6-only network. And it worked. I’ve been watching this slow train comin’ for 30 years. Now I’m holding my breath for CNLP :-)
