Andrew Crowder

A Wizard of Earthsea, LeGuin
The Dhammapada
The Lord of the Rings
The Periodic Table, Levi
Utz, Chatwin
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Didion
Collected Poems, Yeats
New Jerusalem Bible
I Ching Bollingen Edition
Manyōshu

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

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They realized it should be a Zoom call.

It was a straight-up 25A play. VP Guyliner realized he ain’t there yet.

The fundamentalist movement began in the US, eventually poisoning Biblical interpretation worldwide.

I thought there were other requirements ten thuggishness for FBI tenure.

Tokyo had already been subjected to a deliberate firestorm that killed 80-100K civilians. I’m sorry that wasn’t spiteful or cruel enough for you.

Anyway. The cities on the target list for Little Boy hadn’t been substantially damaged, to porivide a more dramatic

Was Cuomo EVER a competent journalist?

I’d call Jennings a tool, but tools are useful.

Particularly critics of the Bible essentially being fundamentalists and criticizing the Bible for being wrong on matters of fact.

The tales and poems in the Bible were always intended as allegory and were understood as such until about 120 years ago.

The Summer Moon is another famous #renku that Bashō co-wrote. The other two poets are Kyōrai and Bonchō.

A three-person team is good, because no person is stuck composing only tercets or only couplets.

All this is well-known.

The point is, what do we do about it now?

Did I say you did?

Jeebus. I forgot you’re in PDX.

Consider meeting Joey at Flying Tortoise. He’s a Real One.

Tell him Andrew, a student of Derryl Willis in Seattle, sent you. ☯️

Nah. Skill and experience also create a bias for peaceful resolution. We all have it in us.

If there is Chen Taijiquan near you, start with that.

Obviously you’re sincere and your heart is in the right place.

Actual fighting doesn’t ever happen in the way we imagine.

Martial arts training creates a bias for action.

For me, that has shown in breaking up street fights; responding to car accidents and house fires; helping epileptics who have collapsed in front of me; shielding people on trains and buses.

Hesse was a weirdo, but in his novel Siddhartha he translated the Hero’s Journey of Gautama into terms Westerners could grasp:

“I can think; I can wait; I can fast.”

Also Ursula K LeGuin in A Wizard of Earthsea:

“Manhood is patience; mastery is nine times patience.”

Good luck. Never quit.

Ikkyu, one of the greatest Zen teachers of all time, was notoriously carnal, as were the monks of Shaolin.

The key is daily practice, a lesson I still struggle to learn after 30+ years of martial arts practice. Just don’t go TWO days without practice.

We’ll get there, brother.

Funding rounds are well-defined: Kitchen table (your retirement funding); friends and family; seed funding; and then VCs, where you sell a chunk of your company.

Perhaps go to work for a short time with an existing dating app to learn the ropes.

Best of luck; you have talent and wit.

The key difference is that #renku are not, theoretically, adversarial.

But both take place in an arena where each side agrees in advance on the rules.

And the craft in both is sharpened by the contest.

A very beautiful & astute friend of mine once remarked that #renku & #rapbattles were similar.

I struggled with this because the lives of the battlers are so different.

But. Both happen in real time; both can draw on HUGE lexicons; both are contests for fame.

What a wonderful world we live in.

Take it up with Shihō, brother.

Even today, at our garbage collection points in Kyoto, some folks hang up fake crows in a vain attempt to scare crows from tearing open the garbage bags.

How do you embed active GIFs? Mine was a GIF too, but it doesn’t move!

God be with you, brother.

May I remind us all that when the Lord said, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render unto God that which is God’s,” the main meaning was not (as St. Paul on one of his bad days said) obedience to power, but that separation of church and state is essential.

We can’t know.

I hope MERRICK Garland sleeps poorly.

FWIW, Garland is a member of neither the Heritage Foundation nor the Federalist Society.

Just a tip: We need to be more accurate and factual than the other side. If you try to dunk on someone, best not miss the basket.

South Korean legislators (including their now-President, Lee Jae Myung) SCALED WALLS to gain entry to the National Assembly to pass a resolution condemning the declaration of martial law by the previous president last Dec.

The on-scene troop commander refused to issue live ammo against protesters.

Hasten the day.

“…fiery Republican known for provocative political style…”

Wow, that’s @nytpitchbot.bsky.social levels of sanewashing.

How about “…deeply mentally ill person who gets into screaming fights with constituents, and uses office as a platform for publicity…?”

We remember what Shakespeare said about all this, right?

Confucius said
At 15, study;
At 30, stand;
At 40, fear not;
At 50, know your destiny.