From Father Joseph Rutler via The Corner. “…I’d encourage your youngest one to abandon kindergarten altogether. Almost everything I learned was learned outside the classroom, and school itself interrupted my education. Moreover, school locks you in with your peers. That is a mistake. One’s social circle should never include one’s equals. From my earliest years …
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From Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Travels with Herodotus: “Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it exceedingly well, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn’t write down what he has learned and experienced, that what he carries within him will perish when he does. That is why it seems …
Lift
Congratulations to Rebecca O’Connor whose falconry memoir, Lift, will be published by Red Hen Press. Several of us are vying for stops on her book tour.
Signs that Fall is Coming
Cottonwood leaves are turning Arrival of Colorado Western Slope peaches. These are from Palisade And it’s time for roasting chiles
Colorado is…
…the leanest state in the union. I’m very proud. I swear I could feel my body mass index fall when we crossed the state line in March.
Black Forest Bison
Yesterday Connie and I drove to Colorado Springs and took SR 83, one of the “blue highways” rather than the Interstate. Just as we were coming up to a plateau covered with ponderosa pine, known as the Black Forest, we saw this herd of bison on a ranch. The market for bison meat seems to …
A Discovery
On a cricket pitch at Jesus College, Pluvialis discovers why austringers have a reputation for cursing. Also, sounds as though it was a good thing Xtin was there to run interference.
Surprise Plums
More new yard discoveries. I thought one of our trees was just an ornamental until I looked up and noticed these plums this week. They’re small, but sweet and tasty.
Shrimping on Horseback?
I’d never heard of it either. But Belgium is famous for more than ale. Evidently the country boasts a remnant horseback shrimping culture. “Men in bright yellow overalls and sou’-westers ride their plodding workhorses across the sands into the North Sea at low tide to trawl for shrimps in just the way that their forefathers …
Left Hand Brewing Company
One of the changes I’ve noticed in the twenty years we’ve been away from Colorado is the proliferation of micro- and mini-breweries here. As Matt pointed out when we talked about this, it’s sort of a “return to the future” as in the 19th century where most towns had at least one brewery. Competition in …