christmas shopping complete

i even got extras in case i forgot someone

here

minding my own business

simplicity is the key to brilliance

bruce lee

all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting

george orwell

adam smith

your reputation isn’t what you shout, it’s what people whisper

darkness is the absence of light

i was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless i caused it.

charles bukowski

leonardo da vinci

the outside game is an inside job

a people that has forgotten its traditions, its ancestors, and the sacrifices that bought its freedom is a people already conquered. for the man without memory is easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.

hilaire belloc

the whole modern world is at war with the nature of man, and it calls this war ‘progress.’ it breaks the tools of the soul and then wonders why the soul no longer works.

g.k. chesterton

c.s. lewis again

🧸🎄

i lost a good friend of 20+ years to illness. my heart is broken.