Brenda

The rapids on the Futaleafu called "Zeda" for their z shape

A far distant yellow yard, unmanned, in white water

Book 15: A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick McManus, one of the great gems of American literature and almost infinite reread. After portaging around a class v+ rapid, I needed to read "Shooting the Chick-a-nout Narrows" to the assembled. app.thestorygraph.com/books/aca207... #bookaweek #patagonia

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people.

He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will — and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

Looking into a cockpit with two pilots

Walking towards a tiny plane in a tiny airport

Looking our over lines and lines of mountains past the wing of a turboprop

A vast flat sea with volcanos in the distance and a prop of a tiny plane

Baby plane over the Andes. #patagonia #chaiten

A three spired mountain behind a raging clear blue river

I can see all three nuns for the first time. #patagonia

Four sea kayaks on a beach with excellent mountains behind

Kayaks in water with glaciers in a distant mountain

Help. I can't move my arms. But it was worth it.

Snowy mountain over a river

Snowy peaks above a whitewater river

The sun is coming out, but look how close that snow line is! #patagonia #futaleufu

A rainbow overa dramatic mountain

When it rains, there are rainbows #patagonia

Four adirondack chairs on a sandy beach in front of an improbability blue and very active river. In the back,a dramatic mountain rises advice a green forest

Futalafu

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story...

Book 14: The Wager. This joins "We Die Alone" in the thesis that humans are both very easy and nearly impossible to kill. It makes you glad for your bread and water! app.thestorygraph.com/books/4e2161... #bookaweek

This is a human programming error. Preventing that has to be manually written in. And whoever wrote that validation didn't think to check that aspect. (Plus, while the periods are cosmetic for Gmail, that's not true of all email providers.)

Baz thrifted a nice handknit sweater with a tag that says "Made with love by MOTHER", and he says, "This guy better be dead."

I'm glad to know he understands the importance of handknits (and always has - I still have his mittens from kindergarten.)

At Logan today, there was a plane with returning Olympians. There were cupcakes and everyone cheered and clapped as they came up the gangway. They weren't recognizable without their opening ceremony gear. Just a moment of happiness that brought unexpected tears to my eyes .

The implication here is straightforward: that people with platforms, including Democratic politicians and media, need to keep highlighting the threat to democracy specifically — centering democracy as an issue in both word and deed.

To save democracy, you have to actually talk about democracy.

I just asked Gemini for books set in Patagonia - this kind of discovery is difficult and a problem I haven't solved. I figured it would be one AI would do ok at. It gave me a list of 9 really interesting sounding books. 7 of which absolutely do not exist at all.

A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.

Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.

Deep paths in the snow in the dark, leading to a brightly lit yellow door.

Trash cans and cars completely covered in snow

Well, I have to admit that storm was not a bust. What a blizzard! Some of the toughest digging out we've had, too. #bombogenesis

It only works because these windows don't have screens.

A woman smiling gleefully through a snowy window pane. She's not wearing a coat and wielding an ice scraper like a sabre. It is very snowy.

I had to use a car scraper to clear the windows so I could watch the snow blow sideways. #bombogensis #boston #weatherishappening

The scream I screamed when Palencar agreed…

Holy crap

Stay in New England, they said. The four seasons are great, they said. Snowy winters can be fun, they said.

It's blowing so hard I think any shoveling will just get undone. I'll wait until the wind dies a bit.

‘Snowicane’ is a new one for us, too.

Four windows almost entirely obscured by snow

Five arbor vitae in a snowy field bending to the right

A window encrusted with snow

I would tell you how much snow we got overnight but between the winds drifting it and the bit where all my windows look like this... Who even knows? I've never seen snow blow this direction. It's scoured where it normally drifts. #bombogenesis #boston

A quiet and snowy scene, with one bright street light over a black road with white lawns. There's a mansion in the background and a red car is the only color.

Laying down to sleep while the first flakes of an incipient blizzard fall is the coziest sense of doom. It's so quiet, except for the drag racers on 93 taking advantage of the empty roads.

Just a few tiny flakes up here in Boston North. This whole thing could still be an epic fizzle. It's happened before.

The book "The Correspondent" in front of a cozy fire

Book 13: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. I've always had a very soft spot for epistolary novels. This one is unusual in the breath of connections - it's so often only been two people. I wasn't sold on the first half, but it has a good arc. #bookaweek

Generally speaking that's not a good idea on a balcony.

A porch totally covered in snow

A railing and a bare street, with significant snow pack all over

I think what people outside the Hub of the Universe might be missing about this storm is that this is the before picture here in Boston. We have nowhere to put more. #bombogenesis #bostom

Strategic mistake. I won't do that again.