What’s Your Everyday Carry?

May 9, 2017

...ebsite. Consider this blog post as an update of the pocket dump I posted in 2011. Since that time my EDC has changed, mostly via subtractions. Here’s my current EDC: 1. Leatherman Rebar This is the central and, unquestionably, most useful cornerstone of my EDC. Not a day goes by when I don’t pull out the Rebar to fix something or slice off a piece of cheese with the dull (my fault) pocket knife. The Leatherman folks have tried to anticipate every...

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We Went to Japan

Mr. Homegrown

March 13, 2024

Thoughtstylings

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...the Tokyo area and our visit coincided with the March 11 anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster. Near our hotel was the headquarters of the Japanese Communist Party which is more of a progressive party not a Stalinist type org. These two posters say Yes to higher wages and No to military expansion. On the other end of the political spectrum we also got to watch a bizarre and loud caravan of Japanese Qanon enthu...

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Three Important Points to Remember When “Kondo-ing”

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2017

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...ms, it will be impossible to keep them organized, and this will inevitably lead to a relapse.” This is exactly what I’m faced with at my mom’s house: boxes of neatly filed away stuff that was never used and that occasionally spilled out during her lifetime. These possessions became a burden, a time-sucking sorting task that claimed many hours of the last years of my mom’s life. This has sparked a, perhaps, overly emotional reaction to quickly get...

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A Week Later

Mrs. Homegrown

November 17, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...can come together around common ground. Also, partisan discussions online lead immediately to unproductive spates of bickering and trolling. But this time, it’s different. This time, silence seems the greater crime. This is a hard post to write. I keep ranting, then deleting. Okay. New plan. Let me tell you a story. Last Friday a small group of people from my church, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, stood outside the Islamic Center of Southern Cal...

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Saturday Tweets: Mostly Bikes

Mr. Homegrown

February 24, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...how the children are our future so we should teach them well and let them lead the way.https://t.co/iiFwAcbV4B — Bike Snob NYC (@bikesnobnyc) February 23, 2018 Congratulations to Keep LA Moving for this big win in Playa. pic.twitter.com/IDD6dtWPv7 — Peter Flax (@Pflax1) February 21, 2018 They should bring this trend back! #LAhistory https://t.co/PMI2WGot1q — Culinary Historians (@CHSoCal) February 24, 2018 This invasive species could result in th...

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