Greg Cello

A little introduction for new and old followers alike: First off, I’m no one special in the grand scheme of things, but I’d like to think I’m very special to my family, and I’ve designed my life off that presumption. My name is Greg, and I live with my young, growing Catholic family of 6 in northwestern RI on our homestead, where we homeschool our kids and tend to our chickens, veggies and flowers (with more additions planned in the future). I write for a Substack publication called Kinward and record a daily podcast called The Dissident Dad Show, while working on building a family business. I believe in this idea called eternalist generationalism, where responsibility doesn’t end with my lifespan or my kids’ childhoods, because it reaches upward to God and eternity, and outward into the moral, spiritual, economic, and ecological world my descendants (and my neighbors’ descendants) will have to live in. If eternity is real, then I’m obligated to build a rightly ordered micro-civilization, not just carve out a private, comfortable life. I think we’d all be a little better off if we focused on our local economies of land, people, and politics rather than getting worked up over national or global happenings. In fact, I think we’d be much happier overall. I love New England and American wouldn’t live anywhere else. I have ancestry going back to the Mayflower, so you could say I’m a Mayflower American. I’ve also fought for this country, and so have five generations of men in my family. But you wouldn’t see my kids or me going abroad to fight in any wars right now; rather, if anything, you’ll see us fighting for our own local communities and people if it came to that. I love nature and the American landscape; exploring it, being tethered to it. One of the greatest feelings is walking through the woods all day watching a bird dog run around looking for grouse and woodcock and the thrill that comes from shooting it when flushed. I think our lives would be more enriched if we conserved this natural world of ours as best as possible. Finally, I think the nihilistic mind rot of our modern age has destroyed so much beauty that used to exist in our homes, architecture, landscaping, the way we dress and treat others, our faith in a higher being, our cooking and baking and how we even present it, and even how we just think, act, and converse with ourselves and each other. We destroy nihilism through beauty. The beauty found in family, faith, nature, traditions, our communities and parishes, and having the freedom to live this way without being oppressed by any governmental entity. Thanks for following along.

@CorgiCaravan oh, I do louder than everyone.

@gregcello And you don't?! 😆

every time we arrive home the kids run over to the sheep and yell “HI SHEEP!”

@funandprofitco @OldHollowTree I buy it from their website. It’s made in Weare, NH.

@gregcello @OldHollowTree Where is this on sale? The brand I picked up at the asian market was pretty disappointing.

I love kimchi.

@badbake_offgrid well deserved buddy. I love everything you’re doing. Highly support the sheep possibility in your future too 😌

3000!!!!!!?!?!?!?! Ya'll are crazy! Thanks for being here! For anyone new, I suppose I should introduce myself. Hello There! I'm badbake! (or Brian but that's boring 🤪) For 15 years I was a deckhand on commercial lobster-boats in Maine (both inshore and offshore). That is, until I got injured when another boat ran ours over back in Dec of '22. I worked for another 1.5 years after that before surgeries started taking place. Earlier that same year, I'd built a cabin off-grid with my own two hands, with the help of my Father of course! As it should be. So I live off-grid, I'm 37 years old, basically starting over career wise while still recovering from getting hurt. I just recently started a laser-craft-maker business, Salt Baked Laserworks, trying to create and sustain my own future. Currently raising Chickens with plans to get goats and pigs in the future, maybe eventually sheep too, that'd be wicked cool! I post about my life as I try new things, as I do new projects, as I learn new skills, and certainly as I fail too. End of the day, I'm just me. Tackling the world with my dog Sora (she's the best) and my growing flock of chickens. My goal is to become as self-reliant as I can achieve. Thanks for hanging around and I hope you enjoy the ramblings 🤪

@BranziniHaddock you must love Ernest Hemingway.

@gregcello I read short sentences too.

Madison has started reading. Short sentences, but reading nonetheless. we’ve been reading to her almost everyday since a baby, and novels to her since she was 4, with a finger always tracking under what we’re reading. and that’s all we really have ever done.

@EvilTo50934 @PageauJonathan those are beautiful. I’ll have to check them out. I’ve read every one the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersons fairytales to her. Starting to with the boys now too.

@gregcello My family has enjoyed @PageauJonathan fairytales. store.thesymbolicworld.com

@Ionmota37 a very precarious time of the day. Tread carefully.

@gregcello Looks like it's rub-your-eyes o'clock. We know that hour well in our family.

@nicholascarrigg I have a buddy who caters food to the yatchs of the super rich. Basically counsels them on the best foods they should have, embassies it for them. many ways to make money off luxuriating the super rich.

Thinking about starting a consulting company where all I do is counsel the super rich on how to luxuriate the right way.

@richiesalter we actually lived across from the main fields of Foxboro. Aside from the scheduled youth soccer games, they were mostly empty.

@gregcello Did you check the fields or gyms? Unfortunately, for kids these days everything is scheduled and free time is generally spent inside with a screen

one of my more unsettling experiences was when we were living in Foxboro. It was very walkable, and we would walk our dog and little ones around all the time. But never saw anyone. Front yard, or even backyard. People surely lived there, but where were they?

@TuckerPoodleMA thank you Cassie 😌

@gregcello Love this photo! Proud Daddy!!!

this was my pfp for the longest time (still is on other sites). I always liked it because it was me and Madison days after she was born and really the beginning of adulthood as I now see it.

@JayRock_QueenCi many miss this.

@gregcello I wholeheartedly understand the sentiment. If it weren’t for the arrival of my oldest, I don’t think I’d have ever grown up.

@spearpoint_kate lost it shortly after and was nearly bald for the first 10 months 😆

@gregcello Wow! She has a beautiful head of hair! A beautiful baby.

@beauharnais I can respect that. I’ve literally said the same thing to the owner of the property next to mine. I hate to see it turn into anything than it is.

@gregcello Growing up in RI, i remember the bumper sticker "Little Compton-keep it little". The residents did all they could to keep "certain people" from buying there. There were incidents of residents buying properties just to control who lived there.

I dream of one day shepherding sheep along the coastal farmland of Little Compton, RI while watching the sun set.

@Rahabtheharlot3 once wonderful towns and villages turned in transient suburban nodes of the cities they serve.

@gregcello Same in many affluent neighborhoods around the country. They are always at work to pay for these homes they never have time to enjoy because they are always at work to pay for...

@funandprofitco yeah, that’s a hard no.

@gregcello I switched churches because one Sunday the homily was just a giant solicitation for donations... in this case Catholic Charities which facilitate refugee resettlement.

being locally present in your worship is something to seriously consider.

@CFrancisFisher oh that’s cool. Maybe we’ll be neighbors when that day comes 😌

@gregcello Same. We used to have a little cottage there. Dream of one day settling back in Little Compton for good. It’s a little paradise.

@TrillyCasper one of the best st Patty’s day parades, surely the most unique.

@gregcello LC is a great place