Seek The Substantial

1. This piece from Jennifer B. Calder is the realist and saddest thing I’ve ever read. A husband takes his life, leaving his wife (Jennifer) and 3 children. I don’t even know what to say about this, it’s one of the best things I’ve read all year. 2. The Whippett…

Well, there’s a lot of things to like about this week. I actually have too many links saved up that I want to share. 1. You ever heard of Parc Ela in Switzerland? Me neither, but it is a nature park in the canton of Graubunden and is supposed to…

Good morning. It seems like it has been a while I’ve done links, but it’s only been a couple of weeks. 1. Texas Monthly’s Aaron Chamberlain continues his bike ride around the perimeter of Texas and summarizes week 5 and week 6. Week 5 is mostly west Texas in general,…

1. The family and I went to northwest Arkansas, Eureka Springs was where we stayed and it was absolutely beautiful in the fall. I don’t know why we picked it, other than my wife and I had talked about going for some time and just never made it there. I’d…

1. I usually stay away from sports here (except for running), but we’re going to get a little sportsy today. Via NPR, the No. 3 Iroquois Nationals team was not part of the lacrosse 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama because they weren’t a sovereign nation. In comes the Ireland…

1. Ever heard of the Bay of Fundy? Me neither. The Bay of Fundy borders Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine, and it has the highest tides on earth. So you see those trees? That’s how high the tide will get during the course of the day. Photo by Peter…

1. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been without internet, which isn’t great, but it also means that I’ve picked up more books. With that being said, I finished Annie Proulx’s Barkskins, a 700-page historical fiction about two boys from France who found their way to the New World with…

1. Ever heard of El Chalten? Me neither. This look straight out of something that someone drew on a computer. Those peaks are simply amazing. Oh, and El Chalten is in in Argentina. Photo by Lia Tzanidaki on Unsplash 2. The Morning News usually does a Tournament of Books and…

1. “Why it is so hard to change someone’s mind.” This was really good and you would be smarter watching this. 2. Via National Geographic, Mario Rigby, a Canadian-Turks and Caicos Islander explorer, made a two year walk (and kayak) across the continent of Africa, from the south to the…