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How to Find and Keep Friends: A Guide for Middle Age

January 31 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Lockdowns, Personal Development

Hmm. There is an opportunity here. mrossol WSJ  1/29/2022, by Julie Jargon

Loneliness is a reality for many of us, now more than ever. After last week’s column on the loneliness felt by moms in middle age, my inbox began overflowing with emails from readers, many of whom asked for solutions. While there’s no magic wand to fix loneliness, there... Read more

hans-gude-brenning: A time for Reflection

January 27 | Posted by mrossol | Art, Interesting

“Brenning Ved Hanko,” 1890, by Hans Gude. (Public domain)
Arts & Tradition
Art exploration for the young and young at heart
BY Andrea Nutt Falce
TIMEJanuary 18, 2022
The New Year offers an apt opportunity to reflect upon life and work. Life is full of refreshing cycles. Marked by a process of gradual growth and... Read more

How a Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers

January 24 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting

Interesting numbers problem. mrossol https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-strange-grid-reveals-hidden-connections-between-simple-numbers?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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This is not how civil wars start

January 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Interesting

UnHerd  1/12/2022

I moved recently to a remote part of Northern California, where in a couple weeks an election will decide whether or not allies of the local militia take control of the county government. It’s a fraught situation, in a part of the country that’s often described by journalists, myself included, as being on the verge of... Read more

Why You Should Re-Read Paradise Lost

January 10 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Interesting, Literature

Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today. But this epic poem, at over 350 years old, remains a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now. In more than 10,000 lines of blank verse, it tells the story of the war for heaven and of man’s expulsion from Eden. Its dozen sections are an ambitious attempt to comprehend... Read more

Fatherless

December 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Marriage, Social Engineering, Western Civilization

Mary Eberstadt makes a pretty detailed analysis of how the absence of fathers in the lives of children, especially boys, has affected culture and society.

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