Rhoneisms

My sister is doing some research on our family at The Library of Congress and came across some of my Great Grandfather’s papers. Mixed within was this art masterpiece by the famed 3 year old poet and print artist Patrick Rhone.

Things The French Find Completely Bizarre – Kimberly Wheeler Not every thought needs to be announced. Not every moment needs to become content. Not every silence needs to be filled. I think the French have it right.

Congrats to Manu Moreale on 150 interviews completed for his wonderful People and Blogs series. I was honored to be one of those 150.

We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even, give them a memory they will cherish for life.

Beatrix is on the banner for this year’s summer show at Circus Juventas, Whimsy. There are still tickets available. So, if you’re local you should come see Beatrix in her final circus performances before she heads off to college.

How to deal with your kid leaving • Buttondown Boy did I need to read this.

I wrote this five years ago but can’t find where I posted it. It still holds true today so why not post it here, now? My message for today’s celebration of America’s Independence… The dream of the United States of America has never aligned with the reality of the United Sates of America. How we imagine ourselves to be has never been who we actually are. Does this mean we should not keep dreaming and striving for those lofty goals? No. And if we were ever to achieve them, we should engage new,…

Reaching and walking across the Mississippi Headwaters. I’ve now seen the very beginning and very end of the mighty Mississippi. Bucket list item achieved!

Every moment matters.

A Catch-Up Sunday is Like a Small Project Sunday — Bethany Gladhill It was the kind of day to feel incredibly grateful for the friends and family we have, and the richness of the garden. Indeed.

Picked both our cherry and serviceberry trees. We’ve managed to get about a third of what’s ready to be picked.

Need to Know: Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose – Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? Bonus, the brands that are still privately owned and quality first.

For the record, I don’t believe in management. I don’t believe one should have to manage people. I believe if you hire the right people, they don’t have to be managed — the work simply gets done. If you have people you have to manage, you should fire them and replace them with people you don’t.

An Important reminder at Hunter Gatherer 21C: We are never just ourselves. We are ourselves plus the world we move through. A human being is not a sealed unit but a creature in constant exchange with its surroundings: light and dark, warmth and cold, soil underfoot, water, the company of others. Take the natural half of that exchange away and something in us quietly begins to fade. It’s time to go outside and play.

My Back Pages: An Unwritten Book – The Homebound Symphony The biographer of Robert Zimmerman cannot avoid seeking to disentangle the discoverable truth from the demonstrable untruth. Such disentangling is not impossible, but neither is it interesting, or so I believe. I’d read this for sure!

This is my report: Chateau Ste. Michelle, 2018 Indian Wells Cabernet Sauvignon is a stunningly good wine.

How to make a lifetime customer: Pressure warning went off on car I just bought in January, took it to Discount Tire, they diagnosed (nail), repaired the leak, and rotated the still good tires… FOR FREE. Did not get these tires there. Just pure good customer service. What we believe in.

Before our daughter Beatrix was born, when we found out we were having a girl, Bethany asked mmm what I hoped she’d be like. I said, “I hope she’s just like you.” I feel like I’ve written enough about Beatrix here and elsewhere over the years that most of my longterm readers can probably imagine what she’s like. I really meant it (and I’m glad I got what I wished for). Bethany is, by far, the smartest person I know. The hardest working too. She knows a whole lot about a lot of things and uses…

Your moment of new study zen. Now this is my kind of home office.

I’ve had this café style bag from The Walking Company for over 35 years. It’s been all over the world ever since. Recently, it developed a couple of rips so I took it to Repair Lair and boy howdy did they do a, um, seamless patch up job. Fast service too! Ready for another few decades of service.

My sister got me a Saint Paul Colored Gophers cap and I’m now obsessed: Gotta find where I can get one of these sweaters:

Holding On, Letting Go This. So much this.

Just a reminder that my “Notes on leaders…” post is a living document that may have been updated since you last checked it out.

Today seemed like a good day to finally update my Now page.

This young lady graduates from High School tomorrow.

Beat and Groove – The Homebound Symphony We need to get the grove back, indeed! Further evidence: Steely Dan on Bernard Purdie and the Purdie Shuffle

Daisy Edgar-Jones Starring in ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ Shut up! Take my money and deliver this straight into my veins!

Been having a lot of random conversations about aging well lately. A reoccurring theme: Don’t stop. Don’t stop moving. Don’t stop thinking. Don’t stop engaging with the world. Don’t stop smiling and being happy and otherwise being positive. The science backs this up. M.E.D.S can help.

Rethinking famous college admissions | Seth’s Blog Is it better to believe that you got into a famous college because of a mysterious, perhaps human, definitely flawed, and easily gamed system, or would we prefer a different sort of black box, one that puts data to work in a coordinated and prioritized way? A proposal worth consideration. Not sure I agree with all of it but, having just been in the process, I know some changes are certainly needed.

Prioritise by pay-off | Hunter Gatherer 21C As Merlin Mann once said, “Priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.”