Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm

Than you!

Pigfoot? Is that you buddy?

Most of what we call “education” is just memory under pressure.

Dirt Rich Living A six-figure executive trades his briefcase for barn boots in this hilarious and heartwarming memoir of starting a Vermont farm from scratch and di...

Yup! There are a bunch of international sellers

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We say we’re overwhelmed by the news, but what we’re often overwhelmed by is the performance layered on top of it…the commentary, the takes, the instant sorting into teams…eventually the original human cost is barely visible underneath.

It took me a long time to learn this: High heat doesn’t make you a better cook, control does. The pan that’s smoking aggressively is usually telling you that you’ve already lost it.

Have you read my new book yet? I tried to read it to Lil Barn Cat but she got squirmy.

Learn to argue with an idea they disagree with without melting down. It will make you a better human.

Town Meeting Day always reminds me that democracy isn’t abstract at this scale. It’s a room, a stack of paper, a microphone, and the quiet decision to show up.

Discipline isn’t freedom. It’s the scaffolding that makes freedom repeatable.

Happy Town Meeting Day to everyone heading out into the cold to do the quiet work of self-government. It’s not flashy, but it’s real.

Journals in Sweden

The guy at the store said he’s the only person he’s ever seen pull it off.

I will ignore two urgent emails to spend 45 minutes re-latching a gate until it closes with a satisfying click. This is not procrastination. This is a religion.

Comic Continued over on my Substack

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If you keep adding infrastructure to reduce labor, why does the farm keep finding new ways to demand my full attention anyway?

If the pilot grabs the intercom mid-turbulence—masks dropping, people praying—while wearing a "HOOF ARTED?" t-shirt, you don't care about his fashion. You care that he thinks your life is a game he can exit the second it gets uncomfortable.

If markets can price in catastrophe within minutes, why do institutions claim they need months to recognize catastrophe in human terms?

My brain is stuck on that trucker hat the way a tongue keeps poking a toothache. It’s not about "decorum" or "suits." It’s about the terrifying realization that the person holding the matches is treating the fire like a brand moment.

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If leaders insist they “had no choice,” what constraint specifically removed all alternatives and who created that constraint?

They look like marshmallows. They’re actually policy enforcement.

You need to start treating your attention like seed. You don’t throw seed on concrete and then get mad it didn’t grow.

Today’s creative output is going to be unglamorous, like sweeping the shop floor.

GREEN ARROW SAYS EAT THE RICH

#GreenArrow
#EatTheRich
#EmeraldArcher

1. You probably have seen this panel. It's from JLA 80-Page Giant(1998) #1

It's a great short story. Only 10 pages.

“It’s because of the Epstein files” might be part of the explanation right now. But the outcome is not abstract. It’s funerals, amputations, trauma, and families that never go back to normal…both in Iran and here in the United States. Pause and absorb that.

Minnesota child care fraud recoveries (2020–2025): $2.4M. Trump “enrichment” estimates: $1.4B+. Priorities: hunt the millions, ignore the billions.

Still February…it’s been the longest short month ever.

I trust anyone who can tell me exactly what they changed their mind about this month.

Quick poll for the farm crowd: what vanishes most often?

A) Sharpies
B) left gloves
C) t25 bit *
D) the bucket lid you just set down

It’s almost like Hillary read my substack comic this week…

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