The Map is Mostly Water

I was interviewed by Nicole Ruiz for The Third Oikos, mostly about my life as it relates to parenting.

If you’re not in the market to buy a camera or read about cameras you can skip this post.

“What have the Romans ever done for us?”

But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me — Dubliners, The Sick Note This post is part of a series about building a house that looks and feels traditional in New Hampshire.

This is the first post in a new section called Rabbit Hill, where we’ll share some notes about babies, parenthood, and education.

Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve shoved your own hands deep in the entrails of a building, you’ve permanently altered your entire relationship with the world. — Kendric Tonn Consider knowledge

INTERVIEWER: There’s a certain esthetic to the way you live.

The first time I went out to Silicon Valley, or California for that matter, or anywhere at all west of New York state, was after college.

“Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. — Proverbs 25:2 There are a hundred things you could be doing differently that will change the future.

cutting new beds and building new stone walls to tame a hill, a misty May morning, 2024 To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — Dr.

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.

future sightings Most of what we read is a summary.

This is post may sound familiar: it is based on a 2021 post titled The Most Precious Resource is Agency.

thinly separated thoughts i One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. — Shakespeare I watched The Green Ray (1986) recently, one of Eric Rohmer’s beautiful films.

A technology advertisement for more efficient coal boilers.

Hubert Robert (1733-1808) The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days.

“It is a mistake to suppose a man makes a fortune if he knows not how to enjoy it.” — Vauvenargues In housing, almost every buy-vs-rent discussion concentrates on cost.

Our peasants love their villages.