Margaret Meyncke

Colorado just announced 10,000 new students have been pulled from public school to homeschool. School enrollment is down across the country. Schools are launching marketing campaigns to try to get people to come back. Homeschooling is the fastest growing freedom movement in America.

Almonds are an environmental catastrophe. People hear that and assume you mean in some abstract, projected, 2050 kind of way. No. Present tense. Happening now. Today, while someone posts about their oat-and-almond-milk morning ritual and refers to it as 'conscious consumption.' - 1.1 trillion gallons of water used annually in California alone - 1,900 gallons required to produce a single pound of almonds - 10% of California's entire water supply consumed during historic drought conditions - Approximately 50 billion bees killed per year from pesticide and fungicide exposure during mass pollination events - Entire Central Valley sections converted to monoculture desert requiring permanent irrigation infrastructure - Fungicide cocktails applied during February bloom, peak bee vulnerability, routinely implicated in colony collapse - Almonds provide essentially no complete protein, moderate oxalate load, and require industrial processing to make palatable - Virtually every almond ever eaten has been shipped internationally at least once The person drinking almond milk in a reusable cup is, on balance, responsible for the deaths of more living creatures before 9am than a British beef farmer manages in a fortnight. But the cow breathed out, so.

After 30 years of being an Atheist, tonight I will be baptized, confirmed, and reconciled to God. I cannot stop thinking about it.

If only we all could achieve this level of chill.

Jordan Peterson said something that keeps echoing in my head: Life is full of suffering. We make it worse with our own stupidity, blindness, and sometimes outright malevolence. The antidote isn’t chasing rights or chasing pleasure. The deepest meaning most people ever find comes from voluntarily taking on heavy responsibility — for yourself, your family, your community. The heavier the load, the more meaningful it becomes. It’s a hard truth, but once you hear it, it feels self-evident. In a world obsessed with comfort and self-indulgence, this idea hits like a gut punch… and a quiet call to action at the same time. What’s one responsibility you’ve taken on that ended up giving your life more meaning than you expected?

"The ability to articulate is the most dangerous thing you can possess." —Jordan B. Peterson

「子供達に音楽を教えるにはどうしたらよいか」という質問にポールマッカートニーが「僕ならこうする」とピアノで作曲に必要な最小限のコードだけ教えるの流石だわ… 決まった曲しか弾けなかったり機械的に覚えさせられてるだけだといずれ退屈になって音楽をやめてしまう

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.” — Søren Kierkegaard