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Caterpillar to chrysalis

I finally got it. In focus. In real time.

The moment the caterpillar becomes the chrysalis.

It's truly glorious.

00:07:25
Watching a caterpillar look for its chrysalis spot

Ive been watching this caterpillar for 20 minutes now. Waiting to see where it goes. Making sure nobody steps on it by accident. It’s clearly on a mission, just no idea what is guiding that mission.

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Trump’s press conference, and a $400 million gift?

Having the tires rebalanced on the bronco, and trying to be productive in the meantime. Two news items of the day.

Let me know if I’m off base on the $400 million “gift”.

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February 17, 2024
Appearance on Richard Syrette

I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.

Appearance on Richard Syrette
The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023

Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023
Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence

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Mike Davis posted this today. Hopefully more people post it-

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One of my favorite birds. The Red-winged Blackbird is beautiful, feisty when necessary, and quite vocal.
Love the background, lighting, and the memories of such a great and relaxing day. ecessary and quite vocal. This set is all males. I did manage to capture one female on my wanderings on Block Island.
Love the background, lighting and the memories of such a great and relaxing day.

#wildlifephotography #birdphotography #naturephotography #canonusa #shotoncanon #redwingedbackbird #blockisland @1661resort

I just had a frustrating conversation with my son. I'm not really looking for solutions, just need to vent to a highly intelligent and informed community.

He's insisting that the M13 illegal immigrant from Maryland that was deported to El Salvador was a citizen and that he's seen the "proof."

He's sure Trump is creating a dictatorship and we are all at risk. He talked about how Trump is "going after the judges who are ruling against him." I asked him what he was doing to those judges. He of course won't answer, but feels that the judiciary has the right and authority to overrule the executive branch. I told him that's not how the system was designed.

He's very upset because he is sure the US is descending into 1930's Nazi Germany and I'm not seeing it or concerned about it.

He cut his visit short because he gets so emotional and feels in being unreasonable because i won't go there with him.

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, May 9, 2025

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Art of the Day: A dinner in the vineyards. At the invite of a Burgundy wine maker, I once enjoyed a luscious dinner amidst the landscape dressed with grape vines, as we dined from locally made produce, the fresh baked bread of the local baker, the requisite mustard from Dijon and cheese from neighboring dairy farmers, accompanied by fresh fruit and vegetables from his neighbors’ gardens, and finished with wine made from the grapes of the vineyard itself, aged more than a decade in the French Oak barrels of the winery's own cellars. A most memorable way to dine.

Book Recommendation: Senator Nye: the forgotten Republican anti-war tradition.

Wisdom of the Day: “That in nearly every war it is the people who bear the burdens and that it is not the people who cause wars bringing them no advantage, but that they are caused by fear and jealousy coupled with the purpose of men and interests who expect to profit by them." Senator Gerald Nye.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, May 2, 2025

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Art of the Day: My dream office. A marriage of old English style study with futuristic vision enveloped by nature itself – the hard wood floors, old leathery chairs, delicate rugs, ovacular egg-shaped open-air desk, classic texts carefully bound in rising bookcases, interrupted by open windows embracing the sky, trees, and stars surrounding us, embedding the work-space into God’s creation, where the archives of nature map the eternal truths onto the soul mirrored in the many texts within and the mind’s inner narratives of the workspace itself.

Book Recommendation: Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner reveals how industrial policy rescued post-war Japan and central bank financialization destroyed it.

Wisdom of the Day: “Banks can create money out of nothing.” Richard Werner.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, April 25, 2025

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Art of the Day: Old books, the kind you can find undervalued at estate sales, or hidden away in new England antiquarian book stores (as I once found an original of Uncle Tom’s Cabin), or dusted deep in the cellars of great libraries. I began collecting as a kid, having to sell early when the family hit tough financial times later on, but my fondness for old books never left. The rich leather binding, the craftsmanship of the book binders of old, the delicate care of a bookstore owner or devoted librarian, and the buried truths within these texts penned and published from a different time and place, where the written word mattered, whispering to us truths too occasionally forsaught or forgot. 

Book Recommendation: War Is a Racket. The infamous text of General Smedley Butler representing the rightful protest against the war machine after witnessing the horrors of World War 1.

Wisdom of the Day: “War is but a matter of profit for the few.” Senator Gerald Nye.

 

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