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The Barnes Brief: Friday, April 4, 2025
Robert Barnes
April 04, 2025
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Art of the Day

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  • Friday at 9ish pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
  • Saturday Movie Night at 9 pm eastern: Val Kilmer Movie TBD
  • Sunday at 6 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes, Law for the People

Book Recommendation: The VBL book list, a humble 568 of them. An example: Kevin Phillips’ biography of President McKinley, a book enjoyed by President Trump.  https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/130921670-robert-barnes?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=vivabarneslaw

Art of the Day: The effusive ebullience of jazz, the colorful spirit the saxophone sings in its inventive riffs, the chic cool of a jazz club off an alley in Paris or hidden in a cave-like basement in Gotham or enveloped by the memory of history in New Orleans amongst the young folks’ revelry. The explosion of color in the art evinces that echoed memory of jazz clubs on a warm summer night, where everybody is a cool cat. In another life, I’d be a jazz drummer.

Wisdom of the Day: "It was the stage in which they were starting to lose what had been built up by the solid things: industry and physical commerce and agriculture and maritime industries. If we look at what happened to them, it's confirming the dangers of letting yourself get into this posture of thinking that you can provide services and finance to the world and that works. It never has." Kevin Phillips. 

 

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The Barnes Brief: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
I. THE INTRODUCTION
 

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A. Art of the Day 
  • From a board member, the liveliness in this photograph, balancing and blending nature to the inner surroundings, the warm, thick, colorful carpet above stone floors, the brick-made walls below the wooden beam roof (reminding me of the old homes on the little island in the center of Paris), the broad windows embracing the light, the flowers percolating throughout, the spices along the shelves, the pillowed chair waiting, all so natural, so human, so inviting. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day

  • "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” W.B. Yeats. 

 
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The Barnes Brief: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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A. Art of the Day 
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  • The candlelit lanterns light the ancient stone walkway in an unknown, Mediterranean beach town, the flowers leaping toward the light along the path, the sun setting in the distance between islands offshore, the feel of old amidst the new, the promise of tomorrow around the corner, and the proverb along the wall invites us all: “take the risk or lose the chance.” 
 
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  • "Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least hear of brave knights.” C.S. Lewis

 
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